Cordillera peace process gets P67m

From the Manila Standard Today (Nov 7): Cordillera peace process gets P67m

Malacanang is allocating P67.1 million for PAMANA (Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan) projects in conflicted areas of the Cordillera Administrative Region. Ana Laylo, project manager under the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, said the fund would benefit communities in Kalinga, Mt. Province, Ifugao, Abra, Apayao and Benguet. “The PAMANA program is set to implement P50 million worth of projects through the DILG and another P17.1 million through the Department of Social Welfare and Development,” she said. She cited a Memorandum of Agreement with the Cordillera Bodong Administration- Cordillera People’s Liberation Army was signed last year to release P92.56 million to local government units under the PAMANA program. Laylo said the process would go on a higher policy level to extend PAMANA in localities where the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army to National Democratic Front have been active. The late President Corazon Aquino signed the Mt. Data Peace Accord in 1986 with the late Conrado Balweg, representing the CBA-CPLA, an NPA splinter group. Last year, President Benigno Aquino III signed an agreement with the Cordillera Bodong Administration led by President Marcelina Bahatan anchored on economic development at the community level with village consultation, tribal and inter-tribal cooperation and mutual assistance....

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