Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar emphasized the importance of corporate participation in peace building during a forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Cagayan de Oro City on October 23, 2019.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar emphasized the important role that corporate social responsibility plays in attaining mutual understanding and peace in conflict-affected areas, as he spoke before stakeholders of the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist and Armed Conflict (RFT-ELCAC) on Tuesday.
Secretary Andanar, who is the designated Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security for Northern Mindanao (CORDS-X), urged the business sector to continue to invest in peace building by using their influence to help the poor and the marginalized.
He mentioned that the private sector in the region have not only become the government’s partners through the tax revenues they contribute but also for doing their part in providing relief packages for calamity-hit victims, creating homes for Filipino families, and building classrooms.
The PCOO chief highlighted the signed Executive Order No. 70 which underscores a whole-of-nation approach in ending armed-conflicts in the country, and asked the audience to understand the E.O. and relate it to corporate social responsibility.
He also noted that it is every Filipino’s responsibility to realize and sustain peace.
“All of us, everyone, the whole of nation is dutifully responsible for [peace]. We produce peace from our homes, we pursue it outside our homes, and we preserve it in the whole of nation for all time and for all,” he added.
Andanar shared that implementing the provisions of the order involves the responsibility of those who have more in wealth to share their resources to regain the trust of the others who were forced to rebel.
“It has nothing to do with communism as an ideology, we now have a codex of the enemy within our gates: they are young, they dislike authority outside of their own, they relish the gun as the source and instrument of their power, and they would not hesitate to kill if they do not get what they want,” he said.
Secretary Andanar said the participation of the private sector helps provide a platform for the misguided and misinformed to identify and understand the root cause of their defiance.
“Our President is confident that the substantive weight of your investment in tutoring and sustaining livelihood for these rebellious sectors would be successful models for other disenfranchised communities,” he added.
“We began with the statement that the centerpiece of social development is peace, and it has no substitute. It is our natural destiny, and we are gathered here today, together, to claim it,” Andanar concluded. (PCOO)
https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1029180
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar emphasized the important role that corporate social responsibility plays in attaining mutual understanding and peace in conflict-affected areas, as he spoke before stakeholders of the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist and Armed Conflict (RFT-ELCAC) on Tuesday.
Secretary Andanar, who is the designated Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security for Northern Mindanao (CORDS-X), urged the business sector to continue to invest in peace building by using their influence to help the poor and the marginalized.
He mentioned that the private sector in the region have not only become the government’s partners through the tax revenues they contribute but also for doing their part in providing relief packages for calamity-hit victims, creating homes for Filipino families, and building classrooms.
The PCOO chief highlighted the signed Executive Order No. 70 which underscores a whole-of-nation approach in ending armed-conflicts in the country, and asked the audience to understand the E.O. and relate it to corporate social responsibility.
He also noted that it is every Filipino’s responsibility to realize and sustain peace.
“All of us, everyone, the whole of nation is dutifully responsible for [peace]. We produce peace from our homes, we pursue it outside our homes, and we preserve it in the whole of nation for all time and for all,” he added.
Andanar shared that implementing the provisions of the order involves the responsibility of those who have more in wealth to share their resources to regain the trust of the others who were forced to rebel.
“It has nothing to do with communism as an ideology, we now have a codex of the enemy within our gates: they are young, they dislike authority outside of their own, they relish the gun as the source and instrument of their power, and they would not hesitate to kill if they do not get what they want,” he said.
Secretary Andanar said the participation of the private sector helps provide a platform for the misguided and misinformed to identify and understand the root cause of their defiance.
“Our President is confident that the substantive weight of your investment in tutoring and sustaining livelihood for these rebellious sectors would be successful models for other disenfranchised communities,” he added.
“We began with the statement that the centerpiece of social development is peace, and it has no substitute. It is our natural destiny, and we are gathered here today, together, to claim it,” Andanar concluded. (PCOO)
https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1029180
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