{"id":13875,"date":"2020-05-29T09:50:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcaf.da.gov.ph\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2020-06-01T09:53:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T01:53:40","slug":"da-creates-integrity-circles-to-ensure-graft-free-agri-fishery-repost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcaf.da.gov.ph\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/da-creates-integrity-circles-to-ensure-graft-free-agri-fishery-repost\/","title":{"rendered":"DA creates \u201cintegrity circles\u201d to ensure graft-free agri-fishery (repost)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Author: DA Communications Group | 28 May 2020<\/div>\n
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To ensure efficient, effective, and graft-free use of limited public funds, the Department of Agriculture recently created \u201cintegrity circles,\u201d dubbed as \u201cAgriculture Dialogue and Information Network Groups\u201d or ADING.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our response to the call of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to provide transparency and integrity in all government interventions,\u201d said Agriculture Secretary William Dar.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, ADING is a systematic and institutional system that will enable us to monitor and evaluate if our agri-fishery policies, programs, and projects on the ground are effectively and cost-efficiently implemented, without any shade of graft and corruption,\u201d the DA chief said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore importantly, ADING will also serve as our \u2018ears and eyes\u2019 on the ground that will provide the DA management immediate feedback on how our initiatives affect the lives of farmers, fishers, agripreneurs, and farming and fishing communities, as a whole,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe campaign against corruption should not only be the sole responsibility of the DA, but also of farmers, fishers and other agri-fishery industry stakeholders. Thus, we will involve representatives from their ranks and other concerned sectors to make ADING an impartial, objective, and credible system,\u201d Secretary Dar said.<\/p>\n

The DA \u2018integrity circles\u2019 will be composed of representatives from farmers\u2019 and fishers\u2019 cooperatives and associations (FCAs), rural youth and women, civil society, local government units, agribusiness industry, academe, religious group, and designated DA officials.<\/p>\n

Under ADING, they will work together in a sustained manner to promote integrity by strengthening good governance and transparency, and ensuring accountability in all DA-funded agri-fishery initiatives, the DA chief said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEssentially, the integrity circles will be involved in program implementation and monitoring, procurement process, community dialogues, and other participatory mechanisms \u2014 from the national, regional, provincial down to municipal levels,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Complementing the ADING system, Secretary Dar issued Special Order No. 420, Series of 2020, designating six DA officials as Agriculture Development Cluster Officers (ADCOs) to ensure that the agency\u2019s services and interventions are promptly and efficiently delivered for the benefit of target beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

The six ADCOs, who will each oversee five designated clusters, are:<\/p>\n