A mechanism designed to monitor the implementation of a peace agreement in the north was signed by the government and former rebels in Cagayan.
The monitoring and evaluation of the memorandum of agreement with the Cordillera Bodong Administration (CBA) -- Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) was signed Friday by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) and Cordillera-based civil society organizations (CSOs).
“The MET mechanism shows commitment of both the government and the CBA-CPLA to principles of transparency and accountability in implementing the 2011 MOA,” OPAPP Undersecretary Maria Cleofe Gettie Sandoval said in a statement.
“OPAPP and our CSO partners believe that the MET mechanism can improve governance and monitoring of government’s peace and development projects and programs,” she added.
The monitoring mechanism of CSOs will allow independent regular checking and evaluation of the progress of the MoA.
“This means, for instance, helping find the connection not just between development and poverty, but also between development and peace. This also means having a role in local mechanisms for sustaining peace beyond the MOA’s implementation timeframe,” said Sandoval.
The CSOs set to sign the agreement as partners of OPAPP for the MET mechanism are Concerned Citizens of Abra for Good Governance (Abra); Peoples Organization for Social Transformation Development Network Inc. (Apayao), Philippine Association of Social Workers, Inc. (Ifugao), International Association for Transformation (Kalinga), and EBGAN, Inc. (Mountain Province).
The closure agreement between the government and CPLA and CBA was signed on July 14, 2011 at Mt. Province. The rebel groups agreed to surrender their weapons under a resolution signed by CPLA and CBA leaders.
“The MET mechanism shows commitment of both the government and the CBA-CPLA to principles of transparency and accountability in implementing the 2011 MOA,” OPAPP Undersecretary Maria Cleofe Gettie Sandoval said in a statement.
“OPAPP and our CSO partners believe that the MET mechanism can improve governance and monitoring of government’s peace and development projects and programs,” she added.
The monitoring mechanism of CSOs will allow independent regular checking and evaluation of the progress of the MoA.
“This means, for instance, helping find the connection not just between development and poverty, but also between development and peace. This also means having a role in local mechanisms for sustaining peace beyond the MOA’s implementation timeframe,” said Sandoval.
The CSOs set to sign the agreement as partners of OPAPP for the MET mechanism are Concerned Citizens of Abra for Good Governance (Abra); Peoples Organization for Social Transformation Development Network Inc. (Apayao), Philippine Association of Social Workers, Inc. (Ifugao), International Association for Transformation (Kalinga), and EBGAN, Inc. (Mountain Province).
The closure agreement between the government and CPLA and CBA was signed on July 14, 2011 at Mt. Province. The rebel groups agreed to surrender their weapons under a resolution signed by CPLA and CBA leaders.
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Nation&title=Peace-process-in-North-inked-by-gov’t-and-rebels&id=70753
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