Is Your Reform on the Main Menu?

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Nothing says “Institutionalized” better than having your reform included in the organization’s basic services.

In the earlier days of our public land titling reform, Title Distribution events were biggies for our partners - and for us. Local government and DENR partners would organize the event, specifically for the purpose of distributing titles. They would invite the Registrar of Deeds, invite title holders, find a suitable location and usually prepare for a little celebration. 

Title distribution events were the culmination of the LGU and DENR’s work, the result of either systematic or sporadic adjudication.  They signaled to other lot occupants that the public land occupants that the partnership was a legitimate titling efforts, convince those who had been burned by past titling scams to apply for free patents. 

And like I said, they were usually “stand-alone” single-purpose events. If these were offered in a restaurant, they would be on “Special Offer” cards inserted into the regular menu.

Last week we witnessed a title distribution event that was somewhat different - both were held in the context of delivering sets of other local government services. In Agusan del Sur, public land titling is part of Governor Eddiebong Plaza’s “Upland Sustainable Agroforestry Development Program”. The program seeks to capacitate upland “enrollees” to optimize the use of their land, by helping them acquire security of tenure and farm inputs. Thus,  registered titles, as well as seedlings, were distributed during this event.
Our titling reform is no longer a “Special Offer”. Not it’s part of the regular menu of services of the local government. 


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  1. UnknownApril 3, 2017 at 11:53 AM

    as what you've said before, a behavioral change of your partners should also be seen where in they already want/seek for the reform and include them in the 'main menu' of public services. :)

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