DILG, OPPAP to hold planning workshop, assessment on Local Peace & Dev’t in Surigao Norte

From the Philippine Information Agency (Mar 3): DILG, OPPAP to hold planning workshop, assessment on Local Peace & Dev’t in Surigao Norte

Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) here and the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPPAP) will conduct a two-day planning workshop and assessment in mainstreaming peace and development, and local governance project on March 4 to 5, 2014 at Parkway Hotel, Surigao City.

The workshop aims to update the status of the peace process with the CPP/NPA/NDF (Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army/National Democratic Front), revisit and update the existing conflict analysis of the Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) and locate it within the broad frame of the peace process, identify gaps and peacebuilding needs based on the conflict analysis as well as resources to address these gaps which include a validation of previously identified interventions that remain unfunded, and to propose enhancements to existing PAMANA implementing structures process.

The activity also envisions to integrate the Peace and Development Agenda within the Provincial Peace and Order Council’s (PPOC’s) Peace and Order and Public Safety (POPS) Plan.

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