An existing federation (the Federation of Rural Workers Organizations) with originally 4 member organizations was stimulated to expand membership to 11 cooperatives around a common enterprise (rice trading and milling).

The expansion and strengthening of this federation achieved the immediate purpose of generating additional capital for the common enterprise and broadening the reach of the project (through the designation of member POs as buying centers for paddy). More efforts however still need to be exerted by the federation to consolidate its membership base (the farmers, that is) so that it will become a reliable source of paddy for the milling and trading project. A greater part of the members' produce are still sold to private traders and a greater part of the rice milled by the project come from non-members.

Three municipal federations have been organized: FECUP (Federation of Culasi POs) with 23 member organizations, APO-Patnongon (Association of POs in Patnongon) with 12 member organizations, and ABBA (Alliance of Bugasong-Based Associations) with 12 member organizations. Another two are in the making in the form of loose PO alliances in San Remigio and Sibalom.

FECUP and APO-Patnongon are actively involved in municipal development planning. FECUP is currently negotiating with the municipal government of Culasi to handle garbage collection in the town. APO-Patnongon runs a consumer store. The PO alliance in San Remigio are into rice trading while that in Sibalom has acquired rights to a stall in the town market and has successfully worked for the inclusion of a PO capability-building and livelihood fund in the municipal budget.

As an offshoot of the 1995 national rice crisis, a provincial movement (Hublag Kabalaka kontra Gutom) for food security was organized by NGOs and POs. A number of ANIAD-assisted organizations are active in this movement.

On the average, 54% of PO members are women. The lowest percentage is 41% and this is among the 3 POs implementing otoshi-ami (set-net fishing) projects. There is one PO made up entirely of women.

The Grameen Bank centers are all-women groups. There are 29 of these centers in 17 barangays, involving 718 mothers.

Women tend to be a minority (44%) in upland POs.

Women make up the majority of officers and committee members in the POs. They are consistently the more active members and have better over-all attendance and participation record than men.

Focal point teams on gender have been organized in 29 government and non-government offices. These teams are tasked with ensuring that gender concerns are given attention in their agency plans, specific activities and allocations for women are included, and that a gender-sensitive atmosphere prevails in their office.

In the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, discussions on the role of women in different farming activities, sharing of farming and household tasks, and the implications of introduced technologies for women have been incorporated in the regular monthly meetings of technicians.

Gender and development has also been integrated in barangay development planning facilitated by PPDO (Provincial Planning and Development Office) and DILG (Department of Interior and Local Government).

The Philippine National Police has also set up in each of its municipal police stations a women's and children's desk to handle domestic violence, child abuse, and rape cases. Whenever possible, female officers were assigned to these desks.

Thirty-two day-care workers have been trained in gender-sensitive early childhood care and development.

A paralegal program to combat violence against women was also initiated with the help of SALIGAN (a Manila-based legal resource center). Paralegal volunteers have been recruited and trained from among PO leaders and NGO and GO workers. In addition, a series of workshops was also held for elected women officials to enhance local legislative support for gender concerns.

With ANIAD support, 6342 hectares have been awarded by DAR to barangay residents through collective or mother CLOAs (certificate of land ownership award). Of this, largely due to the insistence of ANIAD, 32% or 2017 hectares have been subdivided and awarded to 1272 farmers through individual titles.

This is a major accomplishment, considering that up to 1997 DAR has not given priority at all to subdividing lands already reported as awarded to farmers under mother CLOAs. (Subdividing does not add to DAR's over-all accomplishment in terms of hectarage of lands transferred.)

While there may be merits in collective ownership (as in the case of plantations covered by agrarian reform in Mindanao), farmers in Antique expressed time and again their preference for individual titles, if only to reinforce their de facto possession of specific and defined (through natural markers or landmarks) individual lots. The lack of tenurial security despite actual tillage has been frequently cited as a major reason why farmers are reluctant to plant trees and other permanent crops. For landless agricultural workers, an individual title is a pre-requisite before they can claim and develop their own farm.

It may be worth noting that starting 1998, as a result of the ANIAD experience, DAR has allocated budget for subdivision surveys in Antique.

Through DENR, 650 CSCs (certificates of stewardship contract) have been given to forest occupants. These give the right to occupants to develop and earn from government-owned lands for 25 years. 215 free patents have also been awarded by DENR for government lands previously declared as alienable and disposable.

Tenurial security has also been achieved without the actual transfer of land ownership and this was through leasehold contracts. The conversion of tenants to leaseholders gained momentum with the training of 46 farmers as paralegals. From less than 10 of such cases before the paralegal trainings, the figure climbed to 127 within 2 years after the paralegals became active.

The paralegals helped ensure that tenurial arrangements are honored by assisting farmers who are being evicted or who are accused of trespassing, qualified theft, and similar suits intended purely to harass them. The paralegals have handled 3 cases before the regional trial court, 3 cases before the municipal circuit court, 12 cases before the provincial agrarian reform adjudicator, and 32 cases before the barangay agrarian reform council and municipal agrarian reform officer.

Long-term leases (15 to 25 years) covering in total 57 hectares have been entered into directly by POs and landowners. These leases are different from leasehold contracts because no prior element of tenancy existed and the lands involved were previously idle lands. While there were reservations about this arrangement (this was seen by some as a ploy to escape agrarian reform coverage), the lessees did benefit from the annual or short-term crops planted and they expect to benefit from the timber and fruit trees planted.

Under the landless project, 870 landless households, considered to be among the poorest of the poor, have been reached. Of these, 420 have availed of part-grant part-loan assistance for their livelihood projects, many of which are off-farm activities.

About 6% of the recipients of individual titles in San Remigio were landless agricultural workers. More than 50 lots in the name of the Republic of the Philippines are still available for the landless in the 6 upland barangays covered and the possibility of encouraging settlers from other barangays is still being studied.