The Ultimate Value of Promoting Respect in Schools

The Ultimate Value of Promoting Respect in Schools The estimation of regard in school can't be undersold. It is as ground-breaking of a change operator as another program or an extraordinary teacher. A absence of regard can be out and out inconvenient, totally subverting the crucial educating and learning. In late years, it appears that an aware learning condition is nearly non-existent in numerous schools the nation over. It appears that there is a bunch of every day reports featuring affront required against instructors by understudies, guardians, and much different educators. Shockingly, this is certainly not a single direction road. You normally hear stories with respect to instructors who misuse their position one way or another. This is a pitiful reality that necessities to change right away. Educators and Respect By what method would teachers be able to anticipate that their understudies should regard them on the off chance that they are not ready to be deferential to their students? Respect should frequently be talked about, yet more critically, routinely demonstrated by teachers. When an instructor won't be conscious to their understudies, it subverts their power and makes a characteristic boundary that frustrates understudy learning. Students won't flourish in a situation where the educator violates their position. Fortunately most educators are aware towards their understudies on a reliable premise. Only a couple of decades prior, educators were venerated for their commitments. Tragically, those days are apparently gone. Teachers used to get the opportunity to be vindicated. On the off chance that an understudy made a less than stellar score, it was on the grounds that the understudy was not doing what they should do in class. Presently, if an understudy is coming up short, the fault is frequently laid on the educator. Educators can unfortunately do a limited amount of much with the constrained time that they have with their understudies. It is simple for society to lay fault on the instructors and make them the substitutes. It addresses the general absence of regard for all instructors. At the point when regard turns into the standard, the instructors are affected fundamentally too. Holding and pulling in extraordinary instructors becomes simpler when there is a desire for a conscious learning condition. No educator appreciates study hall the executives. There is no denying that it is a basic part of educating. Be that as it may, they are called instructors, not study hall managers. A educators work turns out to be a lot less complex when they can use their opportunity to educate as opposed to teaching their understudies. This absence of regard in schools can at last be followed back whatever is educated in the home. To be gruff, numerous guardians neglect to impart the significance of fundamental beliefs, for example, regard as they once did. Because of this, in the same way as other things in todays society, the school has needed to assume on the liability of showing these standards through character instruction programs.â Schools must intercede and actualize programs that cultivate common regard in starting evaluations. Imparting regard as a fundamental belief in schools will improve the overculture of a school and eventually lead to progressively singular accomplishment as understudies have a sense of security and OK with their condition. Advance Respect in Schools Regard signifies both a constructive sentiment of regard for an individual and furthermore explicit activities and behaviors illustrative of that regard. Regard can be characterized as permitting yourself as well as other people to do and be their best. It is the objective of Any Where Public Schools to make a commonly conscious climate between all people required inside our school including managers, educators, staff individuals, understudies, guardians, guests. Accordingly, all elements are relied upon to stay deferential to one another consistently. Understudies and instructors particularly are required to welcome each other with kind words and understudy/educator trades ought to be inviting, in a fitting tone, and ought to stay good. Most of understudy/educator collaboration should be certain. All school staff and understudies are relied upon to utilize the accompanying words that show regard for someone else at the suitable occasions while tending to one another: PleaseThank YouYoure WelcomeExcuse MeMay I Help YouYes Sir, No Sir or Yes Maam, No Maam

Segmentation of Mercedes

Chapter by chapter guide 1. 0 Situation Analysis/Current Marketing Mix†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦. 3 1. 1 Current Product†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. 3 1. 2 Current Pricing†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦. 4 1. 3 Current Distribution†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦4 1. 4 Current Promotion†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. 5 2. 0 Segmentation Theory†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦. 6 2. 1 Defining and Explaining Segmentation†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦. 6 2. 2 Explaining Three Benefits of Mercedes-Benz Brand from utilizing Segmentation †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦7 3. Target Market Identification†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ 7 3. 1 Geographic Segmentation†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ 7 3. 2 Demographic Segmentatio n†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦. 8 3. 3 Psychographic Segmentation†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦8 3. 4 Behavioral Segmentation†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. 9 4. 0 Bibliography†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦. †¦. †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. 20 Surname 3 1. 0 Situation Analysis/Current Marketing Mix 1. 1 Current Product Being a profoundly respectable brand internationally, Mercedes-Benz has effectively infiltrated in Singapore market.Presently, Mercedes-Benz C class has qu ickly entered in the Singaporean extravagance vehicle advertise because of the eminence related with the brand. Being a shopper item, Mercedes Class C has been portrayed by elite that precisely addresses individual issues for dynamic people through the predominant brand name. Throughout the years, Mercedes Benz brand name has won worldwide acknowledgment, adding to its prevalence in Singaporean market. The different sub-models of Mercedes Benz Class C including C230, C240, C320 and C350 among others offer buyers with different lavish administrations, other than simple travelling.It is critical to take note of that, the capacity of a center item to offer believable and other valuable attributes other than the center item utility upgrades its inclination to gain notoriety among consumers1. In such manner, Mercedes Class C has been considered starting at excellent level, having refined highlights to upgrade driving encounters, a la mode in nature and having solid brand name. In Singapo re extravagance vehicle advertise, it has been accounted for that 70% of clients enquiring about vehicle are tremendously inspired by Mercedes Benz Class C. This means, a lot of their time is spent looking on the a la mode nature of the product2.It has been seen that, the majority of these customers searching for Mercedes Benz Class C don’t effectively settle on different brands until they get it some different occasions when it is accessible. This is prove by the selling trademark of the item â€Å"Drive and Seek,† which targets guaranteeing the buyers extreme execution of the item. All the more along these lines, the renowned idea of Mercedes Class C can be considered as a one of a kind element that has added to its prominence in Singapore. It has been seen that, Mercedes Benz Class C is multi-reason, since it is as yet utilized in sports just as for private outside traveling.It is essential to take note of that, the capacity of an item to offer buyers with extra adv antages other than the fundamental uses adds to its prominence among shoppers. By having more extra advantages than its 1 Richard, Semenik and Gary, Bamossy, Principles of Marketing: A Global Perspective (New York: Prentice Hall, 2005), 68. 2 Beng, Chua. Life isn't Complete without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore, (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003), 72. Family name 4 center contenders like BMW, Mercedes Benz Class C has entered well in Singaporean markets. 1. 2 Current PricingThe extravagance vehicle advertise in Singapore is an oligopoly serious market, since there are scarcely any extravagance vehicle marks in the market. Being an unrivaled brand in the market, Mercedes-Benz C-Class has effectively entered in the Singapore showcase. This has been seen in the manner this brand exceptionally requested, in spite of its significant expenses. Especially, Mercedes Benz Class C evaluating methodology is valuebased, considering the route purchasers of this item have not been touchy to the significant expenses for this item. It has additionally been seen that, increment in costs for Mercedes Benz Class C doesn't influence shopper demand.This is prove when costs for Mercedes Benz Class C 350 expanded from ? 32580 in the year 2006 to ? 33130 in the year 2007, the all out interest for the item stayed undisturbed, establishing of about 30% of extravagance request in Singapore3. This shows how the predominance of the brand isn't influenced by value changes, since buyers have are profoundly faithful to the brand, notwithstanding contenders utilizing different strategies to showcase their items. Client unwaveringness for Mercedes Benz Class C is exhibited in the manner buyers in Singapore keep up the interest for the brand, in spite of its rivals bringing down their prices.For occurrence, BMW is one of the center adversaries of Mercedes Benz, whose propensity of diminishing costs has not influenced the interest for Mercedes Benz Class C. Especially, th e year 2007 saw BMW bring down the costs of its extravagance vehicle models in Singapore so as to win more clients, a methodology which didn't influence the interest for Mercedes Benz Class C4. This means, purchasers will in general see the estimation of Mercedes Benz as being far a lot higher than the cash they pay for.As an outcome, significant level of client steadfastness has been predominant for Mercedes Benz Class C in Singapore because of the exceptional highlights and renowned nature of the extravagance vehicle brand. Taking into account that Mercedes Benz Class C is sophistically made utilizing profoundly expensive assets, the procedure embraced by the brand in valuing the item is powerful. Despite the fact that Mercedes-Benz C-Class is a costly vehicle, its incentive among the purchasers has caused it to get reliability among the clients. 1. 3 Current Distribution 3 Leslie, Butterfield, Enduring Passion: Story of the Mercedes Benz Brand, (New York: Wiley Publishers, 2005), 36. Dennis, Adler, Mercedes Benz: First Gear, (London: Motorbooks, 2008), 46. Last name 5 Mercedes C-Class has been dispersed utilizing an assortment of diverts in Singapore. With certain purchasers picking on the web orders, there are different selling purposes of the extravagance vehicle in Singapore. Among the different goal focuses for Mercedes Benz Class C incorporates the significant fascination focuses in the island like Ion Sky, and Marina Bay Sand among others. All the more along these lines, Mercedes Benz Class C has been appropriated in Singapore through significant presentations in the island like the Singapore Showroom, Titanic display, MBS Countdown, and Elephant Parade among others.This has encouraged the conveyance of the extravagance vehicles to the individuals where they can see it and make purchases5. By having different retail locations for this item, high volume of deals has been knowledgeable about this brand, since shoppers think that its simpler to contact t he merchants straightforwardly. Since clients can visit the show rooms and investigate the vehicles straightforwardly, direct associations between the brand’s delegates have encouraged brand prevalence among the individuals of Singapore.Since Mercedes Benz Class C items are created in Singapore, a large portion of the merchants are company’s delegates who go about as deals specialists. This makes the clients come up short on the chance of interfacing straightforwardly with the makers of the brand. With the progression of web based business, numerous clients in Singapore have embraced web based buying methodology for the Mercedes Benz Class C vehicles. Through online stores, Mercedes Company has had the option to considerable client base in Singapore6. Being a very much evolved nation, numerous individuals use PCs, making it simpler for them to make the greater part of their buys online.Through the appropriation of web video with intelligent specialist spine chiller jus t as the company’s site, customers have had the option to know the items. In the wake of making on the web buys the vehicles are transported to the clients through the port of Singapore which handles different items from Europe and different pieces of the world. Using a mix of physical selling focuses and internet advertising methodology, Mercedes Company has had the option to disseminate Mercedes Benz Class C vehicles to numerous customers in Singapore. 1.

Climate Change Policy in the US

Environmental Change Policy in the US Environmental change to many is a â€Å"hoax† or a fantasy, yet to others it’s reality. An Earth-wide temperature boost is the ascent of earth’s temperatures through carbon dioxide, air toxins and ozone depleting substances that are gathered and caught in the air. The contaminations would regularly make a trip to space, yet they trap the warmth and cause the earth’s temperature to rise. Because of a worldwide temperature alteration, California has been in a long-going dry season, icy masses in Antarctica are liquefying at a progressively fast pace, and has caused interruption in marine-life. EPA, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Center for Policy Analysis has examined the issues and arrangements that the administration and residents of the world can help the earth in its stop to a worldwide temperature alteration. Ten of the arrangements being talked about are to decrease ozone depleting substance emanations, increment vitality effectiveness, lessen air toxins, and substantially more. The ten arrangements are: Eliminate all sponsorships for fuel use, decrease administrative boundary to new atomic force plants, diminish fierce blazes through Alternative Forest Management, change endorsement of biotechnology, repeal the National Flood Insurance Program, increment utilization of cost streets with clog evaluating, expel more seasoned vehicles from the street, change airport regulation frameworks, evacuate administrative obstructions to advancement, and support achievements in new innovation. The numerous associations who needs to advise the world regarding a dangerous atmospheric devation has contended energetically to give the consideration that it needs and ways that people can forestall it. Associations, for example, the EPA and the NCPA have given authentic discussion of an Earth-wide temperat ure boost and the genuine results it could bring and is bringing to the earth. The significant discussion of a dangerous atmospheric devation strategies is the expensive estimates it will take to ensure the earth. There is additionally banter on if people add to the issue of an Earth-wide temperature boost or not. Many contend that people can’t have any commitment to an unnatural weather change, and others oppose this idea. Whichever way if individuals accept that an Earth-wide temperature boost is a trick or not, we as people should step up and keep the earth spotless and green. In 2016, President Obama visited Honolulu, Hawaii as his last family get-away as the president. During his visit, he saw various things that were strange for such a spot as Hawaii. â€Å"What makes environmental change troublesome is that it's anything but a momentary calamitous occasion. It’s a moderate moving issue that, on an everyday premise, individuals dont experience and don’t see,† says Barack. He likewise makes reference to how it is the best long haul danger confronting the world, just as a threat previously showing itself as dry seasons, storms, heat waves and flooding. (Landler, 2016) President Obama needed the discussion of an unnatural weather change to be heard before the finish of his term. Obama introduced thoughts to cut planet-warming discharges in the United States. Since his call of mindfulness, he has been disparaged by republicans and bolstered by democrats. Republican, democrat lawmakers and even financial analysts accept that a worldwide temperature alteration is a trick and that Obama is manhandling his capacity and this choice could make hurt the economy Obama stated, â€Å"When you see extreme natural strains of some sort on societies, on developments, on countries, the results of that are flighty and can be risky. On the off chance that the present projections, the present pattern lines on a warming planet proceed, it is surely going to be tremendously troublesome worldwide.† Obama’s position on the condition of an Earth-wide temperature boost still can't seem to change, and would probably never show signs of change. In 2008, the presidential race among McCain and Obama a worldwide temperature alteration was brought into banter. The two of them held a similar position on an Earth-wide temperature boost; accepting that it’s brought about by people and Congress ought to institute enactment to top ozone depleting substance discharges and power polluters to purchase and exchange allows that would gradually bring down by and large outflows of atmosphere warming gases. (Davenport, 2016) Obama’s top and exchange bill flopped through was hindered by legislators from the majority rule and republican gatherings in 2010. Around the same time, the Tea Party grasped the top and exchange bill as a resistance to legislative issues/the administration. A year prior to that, the endeavor to develop a United Nation environmental change bargain in Copenhagen flopped too. Information demonstrated that U.S. residents and politician’s assessment on an Earth-wide temperature boost was not equivale nt to President Obama’s, and the conversation of a dangerous atmospheric devation/environmental change fell into ruins. â€Å"There is the thought that there’s something I may have done that would forestall Republicans to deny atmosphere change,† Obama said. Republicans, for example, Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, were happy to bargain to an increasingly constrained atmosphere charge that would limit emanations just from power plants (Landler, 2016) yet Democrats couldn't consent to such a bill as, that. Republican Alexander referenced, â€Å"The White House needed 60 decisions on atmosphere, and they weren’t intrigued by Republican votes. Presently it’s back to control plant as it were. The exercise here is that if individuals who need an outcome would be somewhat increasingly adaptable, they may really get one.† In Obama’s second term, he stepped up to the plate and slice through Congress with the conversation of an unnatural weather change/environmental change. Obama and his group builds up the Clean Air Act of 1970 that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the position to give guidelines on risky contaminations. (Davenport, 2016) Obama uncovered the Clean Power Plan: a lot of Clean Air Act decides that would end a few coal-terminated force plants. Numerous pundits forced that Obama’s plan would harm organizations who thrive on coal-terminated force plants. He reacted with, â€Å"What we owe the rest of the individuals who are getting by mining coal is to be straightforward with them, and to state that, look, the economy is moving. How we use vitality is moving. That’s going to be valid here, yet it’s likewise going to be genuine internationally.† Quick forward to 2017, President Trump has disassembled Obama’s commitment to the stop of a worldwide temperature alteration/environmental change. He has requested the government to withdraw from the fight against environmental change proposed by Obama crushing the approaches that made America a worldwide innovator in controling discharges. â€Å"My organization is stopping the war on coal. I am finding a way to lift the limitations on American vitality to hold government interruptions and to drop work executing regulations,† Trump clarified. Following Trump’s request, the administration will no longer apply the â€Å"social cost of carbon† (Halper, Trump Orders Government to Dismantle Obamas Climate Change Policies , 2017) considering production lines, power plants, and (Halper, Trump Orders Government to Dismantle Obamas Climate Change Policies , 2017) and so forth to keep on planting unsafe gases into the environment. Trump has required the considerat ion of an unnatural weather change and environmental change to be chopped down â€Å"because an unnatural weather change is a trick made by China†. Authorities have expressed that the request educated from Trump would erase all of Obama’s, EPA, and other natural offices work. It has been said that the arrangements made by Obama and others would cause financial disaster. Preservationists have cursed the progressions being delivered by Trump referencing that the reduction of environmental change approaches will put people and the earth in danger, paying little mind to what extent it will take for everybody to â€Å"see† environmental change. â€Å"Obama made a maze of rules and requests and guidelines to solidify his motivation across for all intents and purposes each agency,† Tom Pyle, leader of the American Energy Alliance referenced. A significant number of the individuals in ecological offices concurs that Obama’s plan was to support human life o n this planet and Trump is doing his best to take out Obama’s arrangements. Work Cited Environmental Change: Basic Data. EPA. Ed. EPA. Ecological Protection Agency, 17 Jan. 2017. Web. 29 Apr. 2017.Forster, Katie. Donald Trump to Scale Back Importance of Climate Change in Government Decisions, Says White House Official. The Independent. Free Digital News and Media, 15 Mar. 2017. Web. 29 Apr. 2017.Hirschfeld Davis, Mark Landler and Coral Davenport, Julie. Obama on Climate Change: The Trends Are Unnerving. The New York Times. The New York Times, 08 Sept. 2016. Web. 29 Apr. 2017.MacMillan, Amanda. An Earth-wide temperature boost 101. NRDC. Amanda MacMillan, 04 Apr. 2017. Web. 29 Apr. 2017.NCPA. Ncpa.org. Fox News, 5 Nov. 2015. Web. 5 Nov. 2015Trump Orders Government to Dismantle Obamas Climate Change Policies. Los Angeles Times. Ed. Evan Halper. Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2017. Web. 29 Apr. 2017.

Final Marketing Plan Presentation Essay Example

Last Marketing Plan Presentation Paper The Allocate Corporation Is the biggest freely held individual lines property and loss Insurer In America. Apportion gives Insurance items to roughly 16 million family units. Apportion was established In 1931 and turned into a traded on an open market organization In 1993. Recorded on the New York Stock Exchange under the exchanging image ALL and generally known through the Youre In Good Hands With [emailprotected] trademark. (Suite 101, 2013). Being such a huge supplier of purchaser assurance takes difficult work and commitment from each person in the organization to give buyers the most elevated level of client support. While Allocate was attempting ineffectively to broaden, rivals were alter the accident protection business, which Allocate still relies on for a large portion of its deals. Auto premiums created 55% of its $31. 4 billion in income a year ago. Gecko and Progressive Corp.. Discovered another recipe for development in the generally full grown business. They made a lower-cost model consolidating direct deals over the Internet and phone with overwhelming TV publicizing. Offering lower costs and more accommodation, they developed quickly to the detriment of Allocate and different safety net providers that sell generally through specialists Lactates runner up portion of the accident protection showcase tumbled to 10. 4% from 1. 3% in the course of recent years, while Chevy Chase, Md. - based Geol. hopped two focuses to 8. 7% and Progressive moved to 7. 9 % ( Suite 101, 2013). State Farm Insurance the biggest vehicle and home safety net provider in the U. S. ND a common organization possessed by its policyholders reliably appraised better for claims dealing with and administration than Allocate. The cases division of Allocate has the absolute most basic Interaction with the purchasers since it is during a period of scarcity. Customers contact the cases office when they have endured a misfortune to set up a case. The cases agent has the duty of acquiring guarantee relevant data from the buyer to successfully assess the misfortune. At Allocate Insurance claims offices are isolated by client needs. We will compose a custom exposition test on Final Marketing Plan Presentation explicitly for you for just $16.38 $13.9/page Request now We will compose a custom exposition test on Final Marketing Plan Presentation explicitly for you FOR ONLY $16.38 $13.9/page Recruit Writer We will compose a custom exposition test on Final Marketing Plan Presentation explicitly for you FOR ONLY $16.38 $13.9/page Recruit Writer Enormous cases workplaces known as Market Claim Offices, NCO, are deliberately situated to give satisfactory inclusion the country over. A Market Claim Office directs a couple of states or an Individual state contingent upon guarantee volume and shopper inclusion. Assign has specific workplaces that handle claims for the whole country however just on the off chance that they meet certain rules. The Hudson Express Office out of Hudson, Ohio is an office tit an attention on taking care of cases with a decreased process duration or the time from guarantee accommodation to guarantee settlement. A beginning to analyze the outer components affecting client desires, which could conceivably be messed up with essential conventions and the terms of inclusion protection when all is said in done, is the medias unflattering depiction of the business; particularly considering post Strain guarantee debates and case. Beside only being a disturbance, the media likewise add to client worry, which Invariably influences the whole case understanding, beginning with the underlying trade. Client cautiousness fought, comfort level upgraded effectively by treating the client and the case with care and speed. To meet this decreased process duration the Hudson Express Office just handles littler cases with a complete misfortune under $10,000. Everything inside the Hudson Express Office is totally in house without any agents is to proficiently compose a gauge for structure harms and case of this originates from a clients survey: (Five Weeks and Still Waiting, Jan 18 was broadsided by a driver who didnt stop at a stop sign at a 4 way convergence. My vehicle was left UN-drivable. She didnt have her protection card with her. After a ton of examining I discovered who her insurance agency was and called them myself. They disclosed to me an agent would be out to take a gander at my vehicle. Nobody appeared. I have called each day since. I have been informed that when they get the police report and acknowledge risk, they will place me in a rental vehicle. It has been right around 5 weeks! Portrayal of the new result of administration Allocate expects to contend all the more successfully with Geol. what's more, Progressive on their turf. After a fruitful four state pilot of the new Claim Satisfaction Guarantee for accident protection the nation over. Will Shorten guarantee process duration at last outcomes in higher consumer loyalty in light of the fact that the buyer can continue life as regular in the near future. Assign Insurance has actualized another electronic client support focus to in capable purchasers to give guarantee appropriate data by means of their PC using the client site. Buyers can enter record notes into the case just as present a rundown of taken or harmed things through the client site that can be immediately joined to the case. An open door region for diminished process duration is as to property gauges. An in house evaluating yester is used by inside agents to make a primer harm gauge. 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Should You Apply to a Safety School

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State of the Philippine Agrarian Reform Program Free Essays

STATE OF THE PHILIPPINE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM Final examination in Economics 1 Room 642 5:31-6:31 Submitted by: Cresanelle Polo Submitted to  : Mr. Ceferino Manigos INTRODUCTION â€Å"Tuwid na Daan†Ã‚  or the Straight Path is a phrase repeatedly mentioned by President Benigno S. Aquino III to pertain to his governance direction for the country. We will write a custom essay sample on State of the Philippine Agrarian Reform Program or any similar topic only for you Order Now Essential to this concept of  Ã¢â‚¬Å"Tuwid na Daan†Ã‚  is the battle cry  Ã¢â‚¬Å"Kung Walang Corrupt, Walang Mahirap.   The administration believes that corruption is the root cause of the country’s woes, and eliminating corruption will necessarily lead to renewed investor confidence, eventual growth and development, poverty reduction, and attainment of peace. The straight path, however, does not only pertain to the President’s anti-corruption campaign. It also encompasses a way of doing things right, where the process is participatory; the programs are holistic; growth is sustained; the peace policy is comprehensive; and development is sustainable. Through the living examples of our leaders, led by the President, this re-awakened sense of right and wrong continues to be translated to economic value. Before going to the main purpose of this report which is to inform the reader on the present state of the Philippine Agrarian Reform Program for the year 2011, let’s tackle first the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. Comprehensive Agrarian Reform- Birth, Struggle Future   The Philippine comprehensive agrarian reform program (CARP) was envisioned shortly after the Filipino liberation from martial rule in 1986. It was designed to free the majority of the Filipino poor from the bondage of the soil by making them owners of the land they till. It also aims to grant economic-size land to the landless. Comprehensive enough, it covers farmers’ education, skills training and strong farmers’ organization, application of improved technology, and support by the government. The 1987 Philippine Constitution provides in Article 14, Sec. 4. that: The State shall, by law, undertake an agrarian reform program founded on the right of farmers and regular farm workers, who are landless, to own directly or collectively the lands they till or, in the case of other farm workers, to receive a just share of the fruits thereof. To this end, the State shall encourage and undertake the just distribution of all agricultural lands, subject to such priorities and reasonable retention limits as the congress may prescribe, taking into account ecological, developmental, or equity considerations, and subject to the payment of just compensation. In determining retention limits the State, shall respect the right of small landowners, The State shall further provide incentives for voluntary land-sharing. The overriding idea under the Philippine constitution is the preservation of the concept of an â€Å"economic family-size farm† as embodied in the past land reform laws. ( the law prescribes 3 hectares to be a family size farm enough to sustain a family) It is also important to note that ownership by beneficiaries can be individually or collectively. Even in collective ownership however, the constitutional mandate is to preserve the control of the tiller over the land a farmer tills. This is so because, agrarian reform is essentially a land-to-the-tiller program; it is based on the right of farmers and regular farm workers to own the lands they till. (pp. 1200-1201 The 1987Constitution of the Philippines, A Commentary; 2003 Edition by Rev. Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, S. J. ) In the pursuit of the above constitutional provision, the COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM LAW (CARL), R. A. 657 was signed into law by President Corazon Aquino on June 9, 1988. The soul of CARL, R. A. 6657 is embodied in Section 2 which is reproduced below. SECTION 2. Declaration of Principles and Policies. – It is the policy of the State to pursue a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). The welfare of the landless farmers and farm workers will receive the highest consideration to promote social justice and to move the nation towards sound rural devel opment and industrialization, and the establishment of owner cultivatorship of economic-sized farms as the basis of Philippine agriculture. To this end, a more equitable distribution and ownership of land, with due regard to the rights of landowners to just compensation and to the ecological needs of the nation, shall be undertaken to provide farmers and farm workers with the opportunity to enhance their dignity and improve the quality of their lives through greater productivity of agricultural lands. The agrarian reform program is founded on the right of farmers and regular farm workers, who are landless, to own directly or collectively the lands they till or, in the case of other farm workers, to receive a share of the fruits thereof. To this end, the State shall encourage the just distribution of all agricultural lands, subject to the priorities and retention limits set forth in this Act, having taken into account ecological, developmental, and equity considerations, and subject to the payment of just compensation. The State shall respect the right of small landowners and shall provide incentives for voluntary land-sharing. The State shall recognize the right of farmers, farm workers and landowners, as well as cooperatives and other independent farmers’ organization, to participate in the planning, organization, and management of the program, and shall provide support to agriculture through appropriate technology and research, and adequate financial, production, marketing and other support services. The State shall apply the principles of agrarian reform or stewardship, whenever applicable, in accordance with law, in the disposition or tilization of other natural resources, including lands of the public domain, under lease or concession, suitable to agriculture, subject to prior rights, homestead rights of small settlers and the rights of indigenous communities to their ancestral lands. The State may resettle landless farmers and farm workers in its own agricultural estates, which shall be distributed to them in the manner provided by law. By means of appropriate incentives, the State shall encou rage the formation and maintenance of economic-sized family farms to be constituted by individual beneficiaries and small landowners. The State shall protect the rights of subsistence fishermen, especially of local communities, to the preferential use of communal marine and fishing resources, both inland and offshore. It shall provide support to such fishermen through appropriate technology and research, adequate financial, production and marketing assistance and other services, The State shall also protect, develop and conserve such resources. The protection shall extend to offshore fishing grounds of subsistence fishermen against foreign intrusion. Fishworkers shall receive a just share from their labor in the utilization of marine and fishing resources. The State shall be guided by the principles that land has a social function and land ownership has a social responsibility. Owners of agricultural land have the obligation to cultivate directly or through labor administration the lands they own and thereby make the land productive. The State shall provide incentives to landowners to invest the proceeds of the agrarian reform program to promote industrialization, employment and privatization of public sector enterprises. Financial instruments used as payment for lands shall contain features that shall enhance negotiability and acceptability in the marketplace. The State may lease undeveloped lands of the public domain to qualified entities for the development of capital-intensive farms, traditional and pioneering crops especially those for exports subject to the prior rights of the beneficiaries under this Act. The intent of the Philippine Constitution and R. A. 6657 is crystal clear: the promotion of social justice through an equitable distribution of land by making it easier for the disadvantaged to be able to acquire land. Agrarian reform is meant to reduce inequalities as social justice demands. And in its pursuit, land is to be taken for redistribution to the landless. In the process of taking, the law provides for just compensation. As suggested by Rev. Father Joaquin Bernas. S. J. ,just compensation should depend on the farmers’ ability to pay and not on the standard fair market value or it will not be in accord with the thrust of the law. Fr. Bernas cited land reform in Japan where just compensation was dictated by law and amounted to less than the market value In Japan, according to him, land reform embodied recognition of the reality that expropriation for land reform was not eminent domain pure and simple, but also exercise of police power which necessarily entails loss on the part of those regulated. An analogous situation he said, is the police power of the state to impose price control on essential commodities for the benefit of the public but at the expense of the sellers. ( pp. 1203- 1205, Bernas) The COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM (CARP) under CARL has a 10-year implementation period. It is expiring this year, 2008, after a second extension. The report of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) shows that from July, 1987 to December, 2004, it has only 75% rate of ccomplishment. Out of the 4,676,017 hectares of targeted private agricultural land, only 3,499,790 have been distributed. Approximately 1. 2Million hectares remain untouched. Furthermore, according to the University of the Philippines, Los Banos Micro Study, 2007, 75% of the farmer beneficiaries till their land and improve their lives despite palpable lack of support from the government. These farmers are left with the burden of generating capital and are oftentimes forced to make use of their Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) as collaterals for loans. Among the other problems obstructing the success of land reform in the Philippines are: â€Å"problematic† landholdings, such as areas with missing titles, erroneous technical descriptions, and court disputes; insufficient funds for land acquisition and support services. Protest and oppositions by big landowners is a big stumbling block as well. Furthermore, dissatisfaction on the part of the farmer beneficiaries is another blot on the program. The heading of Philippine Daily Inquirer Mindanao (02/10/2008) says: â€Å"Farmers awarded CARP lands seek way out of ‘bad deals’. The 662 farm workers of the 3,900-hectares Guthrie Estates in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur, Negros Occidental found the deal so onerous as they have not been receiving enough share from the produce of the land assigned to them under a cooperative structure. The farmers have been protesting and negotiating for better arrangements. One cooperative member warned: â€Å"If they will not listen to us, blood will spill over in our land. We have been long dead anyway. † Ironically, CARP suffered a setback during the term of President Corazon Aquino. Hacienda Luisita, the Aquino family’s own 6,000- hectare estate was exempted from distribution. The hacienda was placed under what is termed the corporative scheme where the farmers were given shares of stocks and instead of owning the land they till, they receive dividends from the net profit of the operation of the hacienda as one intact landholding. A lot more is necessary to implement CARP effectively even at this time when the program period is at its tail end. Among them are: decisiveness on the part of government to implement the law against the mighty and powerful landowners; strict safeguards against land-use conversion; sufficient amount and better management of funds; stronger community-based organization; creative and effective programs for big landholdings. There is an ongoing massive call for CARP extension to be coupled with reforms and more decisive land distribution. On the other hand, landowners are pointing to the flaws and failures of CARP as a basis for terminating the program. Since the birth of CARP, they have been deriding its existence, have been exerting efforts to thwart its implementation and plotting ways to defeat the spirit of land reform. Farmers now pin their hopes on House Bill No. 3059, or the proposed â€Å"Genuine Agrarian Reform Act of 2007†. It was filed by representatives of party-list groups Anakpawis, Bayan Muna and Gabriela Women’s Party. The bill seeks to distribute land for free and expand agrarian reform coverage to all agricultural lands in the country. According to the former DAR Secretary Butch Abad, agrarian reform will not succeed if government and business sector will not do their part. And he believes that poverty and social conflict such as the secession movement are due to landlessness to a significant degree. According to Sec. Abad, the present state of things show land reform has failed. Tenants can not be owner-cultivator and farm manager overnight. After acquiring the farm, they need training, support services, capital. One proof that agrarian reform is not yet a success is that countless farmers have not been given a piece of the land as yet. From the official website of the government we gather some bits of information and here they are†¦ http://www. gov. ph/2011/07/25/the-2011-state-of-the-nation-address-technical-report/ The 2011 State of the Nation Address Technical Report 3. 2 Completed projects to strengthen the agricultural sector 3. 2. 1. Under the continuing regular fund from the DA, a total of 1,814 kilometers of Farm to Market Roads (FMRs) were completed from July 2010 to May 2011, out of the targeted 2,567 kilometers. In addition, 687 kms more FMRs were completed under the locally-funded and foreign assisted projects. Overall, a total of 2,501 kms of completed FMRs provide better access to markets and social services and boost economic activities by allowing goods and products to flow in and out of the barangays. FMRs also help reduce transport costs, spoilage and deterioration of quality of agricultural products, and facilitate delivery of farm inputs. 3. 2. 2. From July 2010 to June 2011, a total of 65  tramlines were completed connecting remote areas to FMRs. A total of  67  agricultural tramlines were completed since project start-up in 2009, which is 63%  of the targeted  107  units to be completed by December 2011. The use of these tramlines cuts the cost of hauling by half from P2 to P1 per kilogram of produce and reduces hauling time significantly from hours to just a few minutes. Inaugurated on 13 April 2011 at Twin Peaks, Tuba, Benguet, a 400-meter tramline has reduced hauling time from 2 hours to five minutes. Farmers pay P1 per kilo of produce to cover the cost of diesel fuel, engine maintenance and other repairs and allowance for the tramline operator. On 25 February 2011, a tramline built by DA-Philmech at a cost of P1. 6 million was inaugurated in La Paz, Zamboanga City, a barangay located 970 meters above sea level. A 370 meter distance between the barangay and the closest national road used to take 12 hours to traverse. With the tramline, travel time over this distance has been reduced to three minutes. A local group, the La Paz Farmers’ Association operates the tramline collecting a fee of one peso for a load of 350 kilos of corn and vegetables. 3. 2. 3. All in all, in the first 11 months of the Aquino Administration (July 2010 to May 2011), 11,611 hectares of new areas were irrigated, 40,053 hectares were restored, and 171,910 hectares were rehabilitated both for current and carry over projects. Restoration entails repairing the irrigation facility that is currently not functional while rehabilitation means upgrading or improving the facility, which is currently working but has not attained the maximum or designed irrigation efficiency. 3. 2. 4. Put up the following post-harvest facilities: * One hundred eighty seven (187) food terminals from July 2010 to April 2011 benefiting 1,155 small farmers and fishers. These food terminals provide affordable basic food commodities to around 457,859 households who are able to save not only from low-priced commodities but also from cuts in transportation expenses and reduction of middlemen costs. The savings on transportation cost ranges from P8–P200 for every trip to the market. * Thirteen (13) or 68% of the targeted 19 Corn Post Harvest Trading Centers (CPHTC) in major corn producing areas nationwide. These centers ensure continuous supply of corn even during the wet season, guarantee premium quality, and open opportunity for other investments in the corn industry. A total of 1,342 small scale composting facilities in the different regions nationwide, reaching 100% of the target, and generating 5,368 jobs. This forms part of the government’s promotion of organic farming through the Organic Fertilizer Production Project, which will enable farmers to produce their own organic fertilizer to reduce dependence on expensive synthetic fertil izers. * A total of 56 units of flatbed dryers from July 2010 to April 2011, attaining 100% of the target and generating 402 jobs. These will reduce post-harvest losses during the drying stage of palay and ensure quality drying during the rainy season. Four (4) cold chain facilities[20]  from July 2010 to May 2011 would enable farmers of high value crops to store their fruits and vegetables in the appropriate temperature and prolong the quality and shelf life of perishable crops, obtaining for the farmers a better selling price for their produce. These facilities were turned over to three (3) cooperatives in Benguet, Palayan City, and San Jose City, benefiting 139 farmers. * Ten (10) units of Village-Type post-harvest facilities as of June 2011, in key corn production areas and strategic demand sites nationwide. Thirty-one (31) more units are expected to be completed and operational by the end of 2011. 3. 3. Fostered a culture of self-reliance 3. 3. 1 Some of the strategies under the Food Staple Self-Sufficiency program include the termination of direct input subsidies to farmers and front-loading of irrigation investments in 2012 and 2013 to increase output as early as possible, thus decreasing the need to import rice. These actions are already bearing fruit as seen in the bumper crop harvest from January to March 2011. 3. 3. 2 The country’s rice importation dropped significantly by 80% from an import volume of 2. 2 million MT from July 2009 to June 2010 to 386,243 MT from July 2010 to June 2011. The decrease in volume of actual rice import arrivals can be attributed to the good harvest and the comfortable stock position of the country. Likewise, rice shipments were scheduled better. From here on, NFA buffer stocks will consist mainly of palay purchased from local farmers—a lo ng standing demand of the rice farmers. From January to June 2011, the government through the NFA has procured some P7. 64 billion worth of palay from all over the country. This is 16% of the NFA stock. The NFA targets to increase this volume from the harvest from the main cropping season later this year. The total rice imported in 2010 was 2. 38 million MT. For 2011, the government shall import 64% less or 860,000 MT, with 200,000 MT imported by the government, and 660,000 MT by the private sector. For 2012, rice imports shall further decline to 500,000 MT, with 100,000 MT imported by the government and 400,000 MT imported by the private sector. 3. 3. 2. The government was able to increase the average farm gate price of palay by 2. 89% within a short period, thereby immediately increasing the farmer’s income. Strategic reserves and placements made it possible for the price of rice to remain stable, thereby assuring the affordability and availability of rice to the public. 3. 3. 3. Production in the crops subsector was also up by 8. 19% and the main contributors were palay, corn, sugarcane, and banana. The country has regained its status as net sugar exporter for the current crop year, having recovered from the sugar shortage in 2009-2010 when the country imported raw and refined sugar. news From the official website of department of agriculture†¦ HOUSE  APPROVES DAR’S P18. -B BUDGET THE Department Agrarian Reform (DAR) prevailed upon the House of Representatives during the plenary hearing Wednesday for its 2012 budget, thanks largely to Pampanga Rep. Anna York C. Bondoc, who took the cudgels for the agency and pulled it off with poise even as she endured almost six hours of grilling from her colleagues Bondoc, who stood as the sponsor for DAR’s budget, eloquently just ified its P18. 3-billion proposed budget, saying that the agency, despite operating on lean budget each year in the past, has managed to deliver the tasks expected of it. How much more if DAR is provided with sufficient funds,† Bondoc said even as she rallied her fellow lawmakers to come in support of DAR, which is in dire need for more funds to complete the distribution of some 1 million hectares of agricultural lands and deliver much-needed support services in the form of basic rural infrastructure projects and skills development program. The DAR said that P10 billion of its total budget for next year will go to land tenure’s improvement, which include landowners’ compensation; P7. billion to program beneficiaries’ development made up of support services in the form of basic rural infrastructure projects and skills development program; and P1 billion to agrarian justice delivery. Bondoc found an ally in the course defending the department’s budget through former DAR Secretary-turned-partylist representatives Nasser Pangandaman of the AA Kasosyo Partylist. Pangandaman sought the replenishment of the credit facility in the DAR’s budget, which was left unfunded, to enable the agency to serve the needs of farmer-beneficiaries for much-needed capital for farm inputs. Coop-Natcco Partylist Rep. Cresente Paez joined Pangandaman in his move, saying that the lack of capital is one of the major obstacles to improving the lives of farmer-beneficiaries, most of them are forced to approach loan sharks for farm inputs. Bondoc agreed with Pangandaman and Paez on the need to restore the budget for credit facility and even asked them to join her in lobbying the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) about it. She said she would furnish the DBM with minutes of what had transpired during the budget hearing at the plenary to give it an insight on the issue. DAR  HOSTS SEMINAR ON CLIMATE PROOFING FOR AGRARIAN REFORM COMMUNITIES The warning is dire. Scientists say that even if the earth’s hot temperature on global warming is reduced significantly in the coming years, climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, and other severe weather events are likely to result in food shortages, increase in water and air-borne diseases, infrastructure damage and the of natural resources degradation. To help farmers adapt to these inevitable eventualities, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation ; Development (or GIZ) recently conducted a five-day seminar-workshop on â€Å"Climate Proofing for Development: Practical application for agrarian reform communities† at the Century Park Hotel in Malate, Manila. The GIZ, Adaptation to Climate Change ; Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCBio) trainers and the Phil. Atmospheric Geophysical ; Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) presented to DAR studies made on the ill effects of climate change on farms and farming communities in the country. Undersecretary for Special Programs ; Agrarian Relations Rosalina Bistoyong said the seminar-workshop seeks to understand and learn how to adapt to the climate changes and integrate it in development plans for agrarian reform communities. We at DAR believe that we cannot delay making adaptation plans and actions to ensure that maladaptation [by farmers] will not worsen adverse climate change effects and impede their sustainable development,† said Bistoyong. â€Å"Climate adaptation ways like planting trees, composting, using bio-friendly fertilizers, organic farming, are just some of the ways the farmers can use to help mitigate climate change,† said Corrine Canlas of GIZ. With the climate change impacts we have been experiencing like floods, typhoons and the el nino and la nina phenome na, implementers need to learn the ways and means to adapt to these [eventualities], so that they can put strategies to add development plans for farmers in the agrarian reform communities,† added Canlas. Bistoyong said that the implementers will also teach farmers measures to avoid the bad effects of chemicals on the environment and contribute in minimizing global warming. This course will help our implementers in making necessary developments plans so that our farmers will be able to cope, adapt and sustain their livelihood in the face of climate change,† Bistoyong said. AGRARIAN  BENEFICIARIES TO BENEFIT FROM IRRIGATION AND ROAD PROJECTS CABUCGAYAN, BILIRAN – Rice production and farmers’ income in this fifth class municipality are expected to increase once the rehabilitation of the communal irrigation system (CIS) and a farm-to-market road in the area are completed. Biliran Agrarian Reform Officer Elisea Orapa said rehabilitation works by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) started early last month, and is expected to be completed in three months time. Orapa cited the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), for rehabilitating the 1. 7-kilometer farm-to-market road in Sitio Kasabangan where some 562 meters of this will be concreted for easier and farther conveyance of farm products to the market. Eliasem Castillo, Regional Director of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Eastern Visayas, said the projects, courtesy of the Japan International Cooperation Agency-Agrarian Reform Infrastructure Support Project (JICA-ARISP), would help double farm produce of farmer-beneficiaries in the Balaquid Agrarian Reform Community (ARC). Castillo added that the two projects cost about P8-million, with the local government unit providing 50 percent as its counterpart equity. Ismael Aya-ay, chief of the Beneficiaries Development Coordinating Division (BDCD) of the DAR-Biliran said that about 60 of the 530 ARBs in the ARC will directly benefit from the irrigation project, while some 1,686 residents here and in nearby villages will be benefited by the farm-to-market road. ARCs are group of barangays with farmers awarded with land titles where there is a convergence of support services provided by the national and local governments, non-government organizations and foreign-donor communities. PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE LAND  TENURE IMPROVEMENT The LTI component seeks to secure the tenurial status of the farmers and farmworkers in the lands they till. This is operationalized either through land acquisition and distribution (LAD) and leasehold operations. LAD involves the redistribution of government and private agricultural lands to landless farmers and farmworkers. This  is the essence of land reform. It secures farmers’ tenure, promotes social equity, and provides them with necessary productive resources needed to ensure their economic viability and productivity. Leasehold operations, on the other hand, is the alternative non-land transfer scheme. It covers all tenanted agricultural lands such those in the retained areas, not yet acquired for distribution under CARP, and those which may be validly covered  under existing laws. With the enactment of RA 9700 or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms in 2009, LAD should be completed by June 30, 2014 on a province-by-province basis. All remaining unacquired and undistributed agricultural lands shall be acquired and distributed as follows: Phase I (01 July 2009 to 30 June 2012) * All remaining lands above fifty (50) hectares; All private agricultural lands with aggregate landholdings in excess of fifty (50) hectares which have already been issued Notices of Coverage (NOCs) on or before Dec. 10, 2008; * Rice and corn lands under PD 27; idle and abandoned lands; Voluntary Offer to Sell (VOS) lands; * All lands foreclosed by government financial institutions (GFIs), PCGG-acquired lands and other government-owned lands; * Voluntary Land Transfer (VLT) submit ted by June 30, 2009 (before effectivity); * Only VOS Compulsory Acquisition (CA) are allowed after June 30, 2009; Phase II-A (01 July 2009 to 30 June 2012) * All alienable and disposable, arable public agricultural lands; * All public agricultural lands which are to be opened for new development and resettlement; * Aggregate above 24-50 hectares issued NOCs on or before 10 December 2008) Phase II-B (01 July 2012 to 30 June 2013) * Remaining lands in excess of 24 hectares whether or not issued with NOCs Phase III-A (01 July 2012 to 30 June 2013) * 10-24 hectares, insofar as excess of 10 hectares Phase III-B (01 July 2013 to 30 June 2014) above 5 hectares to 10 hectares * Schedule of LAD shall be in accordance with the above order of priority with the ff: * EXCEPTION: priority land reform areas as declared by PARC (Presidential Agrarian Reform Council) ExCom upon recommendation of the PARCCOM (Provincial Agrarian Reform Coordinating Committee) may be covered in advance provided that prior phases have been completed * Phase III-B (5-10 hectares) shall not be implemented until 90% of the provincial balance as of Jan. 1, 2009 has been completed. Under RA 6657 or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (from 1987 to June 2009), the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) covered 2,321,064 has. of private agricultural lands and 1, 727, 054 has. non-private agricultural lands covering a total of 4, 049, 018 has. This is equivalent to 2, 396, 857 ARBs installed. Congruently, under RA 9700 (July 2009 – December 2010) , 78, 145 has. private agricultural lands and 75, 862 has. of non-private agricultural lands were distributed. This totals to 154,007 has. equivalent to 97, 712 ARBs installed. Strategic Directions up to 2014 To substantially complete asset reform as mandated by RA 9700, the DAR shall: *   Complete land acquisition and distribution (LAD) in the CARPER balance; *   Prioritize the subdivision of collective Certificates of Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs) involving LBP-compensable lands; *   Fast track the documentation and settlement of landowner compensation for already distributed lands; *   Synergize and rationalize the efforts of the CARP implementing agencies in all processes of LAD; * Partner with the civil society organizations in the delivery of LTI services, particularly the large-sized private agricultural lands; *   Adopt a job-sharing scheme under the ONE-DAR Concept; and * Increase the utilization of the services of geodetic engineers to assist in land acquisition. PROGRAM  BENEFICIARIES DEVELOPMENT PBD is the support services component of CARP. It aims to capacitate ARBs and provide them access to the necessary support services to make their lands more productive, ena ble them to venture in income generating livelihood projects and actively participate in community governance. Agrarian reform does not rely on land distribution alone, but also on the delivery of support services, including farm-to-market roads, bridges, irrigation, post harvest facilities, rural electrification, potable water supply, school buildings, multi-purpose buildings; extension services, credit assistance, and trainings. * 709,187 ARBs fully served under the foreign-assisted projects * 7,170 infrastructure projects * 976 communal irrigation projects completed * 3018 functional ARB-organizations operate (ALDA Level 3,4,5) * 316,610 ARB members are already managing their own farm non-farm enterprises Support services delivered through the Foreign Assisted Projects (FAPs) and Agrarian Reform Fund (ARF): * 13,259 kilometers of FMR * 226,015 hectares serviced by irrigation systems * 194 multi-purpose buildings * 174 bridge projects (10,473 linear meters) * 428 units of post harvest facilities * 999 units of potable water systems Other infrastructure projects provided: * Health centers, school buildings, flood control, rural electrification, sanitation systems. Non-infrastructure programs include: * Demonstration farms, rural micro-enterprises, training of ARB leaders, health and nutrition The DAR adopted the development of agrarian reform communities (ARC) in 1993 to improve the lives of  agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). It was the department’s key strategy to accelerate and sustain economic growth in agrarian reform and rural areas through a people-centered, holistic and area focused approach in community development. Since then, the DAR has launched 2,100 ARCs covering 1. million of ARBs in 9,076 barangays. Because of the size limitation of ARCs and the increasing number of ARBs in need of basic support services, the DAR expanded the coverage of its support services through the KALAHI (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan) Agrarian Reform Zones (KARZones). A KARZone is a contiguous area which embr aces both ARC barangays and non-ARC barangays within the zone. Strategic Directions up to 2014: The agrarian reform must be able to lift the ARBs out of poverty and transform them into drivers of rural economic growth. Land distribution is only the first step. Provision of adequate and timely support services are impetus to make the awarded lands productive. Thus, PBD priorities for 2012-2014 shall be to: *   Undertake convergence initiatives with rural development agencies to complement the resources and streamline the efforts of DAR and DENR; *   Ink public-private partnerships (PPPs), develop models of collaboration and design business models in the agrarian reform areas with the participation of the CSOs, academe, research and development institutions and LGUs; *   Expand the ODA portfolio in order to augment funds for PBD; *   Operationalize the LTI-PBD integration on a province-to-province basis; *   Shift focus of low LAD-balance provinces to PBD; and   * Unlock credit facilities for the agrarian reform beneficiaries through capacity development for credit providers and farmer-borrowers, providing support to risk mitigating institutions and making available credit information to credit providers AGRARIAN  JUSTICE DELIVERY Delivery of agrarian justice has two features: the agrarian legal assistance and adjudication of cases. Agrarian legal assistance is comprised of resolution of agrarian law implementation (ALI) cases, ARB representation before judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, and mediation and conciliation. On the other hand, Adjudication of cases involves the resolution of cases by the DAR Adjudication Board (DARAB) and any of its salas. Under RA 6657, the DAR is vested with the primary jurisdiction to determine and adjudicate agrarian reform matters and to extend free legal assistance to farmer-beneficiaries affected by agrarian cases. There are three types of cases under this program namely: judicial or court cases, quasi-judicial, and cases related to agrarian law implementation (ALI). The first two types involve representation of farmers by DAR lawyers before the regular courts and DAR Adjudication Board, respectively. The third type involves the administrative rendering of decision on exemption, conversion and retention. The DAR at present utilizes more aggressive alternative dispute resolution techniques in mediation to reduce conflicts maturing into court cases. The general objective is to persuade the contending parties to settle their disputes amicably or out of court before the DAR. Strategic Directives: The legal sector intends to provide effective and timely support not only for agrarian reform frontliners in the field of operations and support services but also for the ARBs. Hence, to speed up the resolution of agrarian-related cases, the sector shall: *   Put the legal framework in place to expedite the LAD process and undertake PBD lawyering; *   Rationalize DAR lawyers’ and paralegals’ appreciation and decision on cases by developing common templates and legal outlines; *   Improve capabilities of DAR lawyers and legal officers to adequately address AR challenges; and * Tap information and communication technology to enhance legal work. 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