OPAPP, DILG orient Comprehensive Local Integration Program for Mindanao cluster

From the Philippine Information Agency (Jun 15): OPAPP, DILG orient Comprehensive Local Integration Program for Mindanao cluster

The Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Office of the Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process (OPAPP) will jointly conduct an Orientation-Seminar on Comprehensive Local Integration Program (CLIP) and Former Rebels Information System (FRIS), on June 16 to 18, 2014 here.

This event will discuss the provisions of DILG-OPAPP Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) No. 2014-01, as the system that will provide socio-economic interventions to former rebels and their families and to facilitate the healing process including the management and disposal of surrendered firearms, according to Atty. Rene K. Burdeos, regional director, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), region 10.

The CLIP focuses in the integration program for members of the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army and National Democratic Front who have decided to abandon armed struggle and be mainstreamed into society.

The provincial/city directors of Philippine National Police, DILG provincial/HUC directors, provincial/city Social Welfare and Development Officers in the five regions of Mindanao are the participants of the event.

It will be graced by the presence of DILG-Undersecretary for Local Government Austere A. Panadero and the OPAPP-Undersecretary Atty. Maria Cleofe Gettie C. Sandoval.

Among the topics that will be discussed are Government’s Thrust on the Peace Process, Security Briefing and CPP/NPA/NDF Organizational Structure, CLIP DILG-OPAPP JMC 2014-01 and Administration and Processing of Financial Assistance to Former Rebels, Pertinent Accounting Rules and Regulations, Guidelines for the Disposition of Firearms, Explosives and Ammunitions for CLIP beneficiaries.

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