MILF: BDA-BLMI conducts holds 2nd Strategic Thinking Training

From the MILF Website (Dec 20): BDA-BLMI conducts holds 2nd Strategic Thinking Training

The Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA) held a two- day Seminar Workshop on Strategic Thinking on December 14-15, 2012 at the Bangsamoro Leadership and Management Institute (BLMI) Training Center at Crossing Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. The two day seminar workshop was facilitated by Mr. Windel Diancalan, a BDA Staff and was assisted by Mr. Basser Ayob, BLMI-BDA Project Coordinator. The resource speaker was Atty. Bong Montessa, erstwhile GPH peace panel member during President Arroyo’s administration. The primordial objective of the activity was to provide an in depth approach on the mode and context of strategic thinking with the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) as the center of discussions and the workshop that followed. Atty. Montessa presented a situational and presumptuous scenario on varied cases to enable the attendees to establish and come up with contingency approach and strategies as part of precautionary measures against unexpected events and hitches that may take place along the way on the proposed establishment of Bangsamoro new political Identity.

The participants numbered about thirty (30) mostly from the MILF Central Committee Secretariats and its senior top brass officials, BDA Catalysts, and some Staff of BLMI. Dr. Zafrullah Dipatuan, BDA President; Sheikh Mohammad S. Yacob, BDA Executive Director and Sheikh Mahmod Ahmad, BLMI Executive Director graced the occasion in their capacity as officials of said institutions as well as participants too. In his message during the closing program, BLMI Executive Director, Sheikh Mahmod Ahmad gave a word of wisdom and expressed his gratitude to the lecturer, facilitators and participants for spending their valuable time and efforts in the pursuit of common good and objectives of the endeavor, the MILF in general. Likewise Dr. Dipatuan also expressed his warm gratitude to Atty. Montessa for his impressive and clear presentation of the subject matter and in facilitating the two-day forum where the learning tools and infused knowledge elaborated in a most simplified manner that could contribute in the formulation of the Bangsamoro Development Plan. The forum successfully ended at about 3:30 pm. As expected, the participants had internalized the modern strategies mode of thinking which are viewed as essential elements in executing organizational mandate and responsibilities in the service of the Bangsamoro.

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