The SPLIT project which launched in January 2020 is financed through a $370-million (P20. 4 billion) loan from the World Bank to subdivide Collective Certificates of Land Ownership Award covering over 1.3 million hectares of property earlier turned over to about 750,000 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs).

The Environmental and Social Assessment (ESA) evaluates the Support to Parcelization of Lands for Individual Titling (SPLIT) Project’s potential environmental and social risks and impacts as well as the management options/measures that can be adopted to avoid/mitigate the negative and enhance the positive impacts.

The SPLIT Project is a project of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GoP) which aims to improve security of tenure and strengthen property rights of agrarian reform beneficiaries by acceleratingthe subdivision of Collective Certificate of Land Ownership Awards (CCLOAs) into individual titles that will be re-awarded to beneficiaries who are co-owners of the project-covered landholdings. Apart from being a requirement of the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework under ESS1, the assessment of the Project’s potential environmental and social risks and impacts will provide an opportunity to examine project management measures to avoid negative impacts, identify ways of improving the project planning, design and implementation, and seek opportunities to enhance the positive impacts of the Project.