PH, Japan...

review period relating to procurement for the projects and the provision of grant support for the conduct of advance detailed design.

“The Philippine side discussed the progress on the right-of-way acquisition and land resettlement, institutional arrangements on procurement, establishment of Project Monitoring Offices, budget allocation for government counterpart and measures to address cross-sectoral concerns,” Dominguez said.

The two governments also confirmed the candidate list of projects proposed for Japanese loan and grant financing, Dominguez said.

Among the list of candidate projects are the Arterial Road Bypass Project, Phase III; PNR North 2 (Malolos-Clark) and the PNR South Commuter (Manila-Los Baños) projects.

The government is targeting partial operations for the two rail lines by 2022.

Other projects included in the list are the Davao City Waste-to-Energy project; the Pasig-Marikina Channel Improvement Project, Phase IV of DPWH; and the MRT 3 Rehabilitation and Improvement Project of the Department of Transportation (DOTr).

“I am convinced that, through our regular meetings, both our governments are prompted to deliver on our commitments and are encouraged to think of more innovative measures to improve our cooperation,” Dominguez said.