Department of Agrarian Reform

Department of Agrarian Reform

Kagawaran ng Repormang Pansakahan
Flag of the department
Department of Agrarian Reform headquarters
Department overview
Formed	September 10, 1971;54 years ago (1971-09-10)
Headquarters	Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City
Employees	8,119 (2024) [1]
Annual budget	₱8.45 billion (2021)< [2]
Department executive	Conrado Estrella III [3] , Secretary
Website	www.dar.gov.ph

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR; Filipino : Kagawaran ng Repormang Pansakahan) is an executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the redistribution of agrarian land in the Philippines. The secretary of agrarian reform is the head of DAR.

List of the Secretaries of the Department of Agrarian Reform

Main article: Secretary of Agrarian Reform (Philippines)

Organizational structure

The Department is currently headed by a Secretary with the following Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries:

• Undersecretary for Field Operations
• Undersecretary for External Affairs and Communications Operations
• Undersecretary for Support Services
• Undersecretary for Finance, Management and Administration
• Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and Research
• Undersecretary for Legal Affairs
• Undersecretary for Foreign Assisted and Special Projects
• Undersecretary for Special Concerns
• Undersecretary for Mindanao Affairs and Rural Development
• Assistant Secretary for Field Operations
• Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs in Agrarian Law Implementation and Agrarian Legal Assistance (ALI-ALA)
• Assistant Secretary for Support Services
• Assistant Secretary for Finance, Management and Administration
• Assistant Secretary for Foreign Assisted and Special Projects
• Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning and Research
• Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs as an Ex-Officio Member of the DARAB in Adjudication of Agrarian Reform Cases (AARC)
• Assistant Secretary for Finance, Management and Administration - Human Resource and Information Systems Management (HRISM)
• Assistant Secretary for Special Projects under the Foreign Assisted and Special Projects Office (FASPO)

Bureaus

• Bureau of Agrarian Reform Legal Assistance
• Bureau of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Development
• Bureau of Land Tenure Improvement
• Bureau of Land Development
• Bureau of Agrarian Reform Information Education

References

1. Department of Budget and Management. "Staffing Summary Fiscal Year 2024" (PDF). Retrieved April 24, 2025.
2. "Wayback Machine" (PDF). www.dbm.gov.ph. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 18, 2025. Retrieved November 11, 2025.
3. Domingo, Katrina (June 8, 2022). "ABONO Party-list solon follows grandfather's footsteps as Marcos Jr's agrarian reform chief". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved June 3, 2025.

External links

• Department of Agrarian Reform website Archived August 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
• DAR – History Archived August 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine