From the Manila Bulletin (Oct 12): Peace projects
Kidapawan City – Secretary Teresita Deles of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) has confirmed that her office received two years ago an approval of priority development projects worth P1.819 billion.
Funds for the projects, according to Deles, were taken from a supplemental fund under the Disbursement Accelerated Program (DAP) in 2011.
Such amount, she stressed, was used to implement priority development projects for communities in Mindanao affected by armed conflict, in line with the existing peace agreements with Moro groups.
Since 2011, least 384 projects were implemented in 199 municipalities and in 35 provinces all over the country, which included farm-to-market roads, bridges, agricultural facilities, communal irrigation systems, potable water systems, and livelihood assistance projects.
Many of these projects, data showed, are located in North Cotabato, Davao del Sur, and in Sarangani where most of the beneficiaries were former combatants of the Moro National Liberation Front – many of them pro-Nur Misuari.
http://www.mb.com.ph/peace-projects/
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