SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROJECTS. Legazpi City Mayor Noel Rosal, the newly installed Regional Development Council chairman in Bicol, says some PHP3 billion will be spent to jumpstart the implementation of various socio-economic projects in 272 insurgency-affected villages in the region. In an interview here on Monday (Oct. 28, 2019), he said the funds would finance projects that have been identified by the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict in line with Executive Order 70 of President Rodrigo Duterte. (File photo)
A total of PHP3 billion would be spent to jumpstart the implementation of various socio-economic projects in hundreds of insurgency-affected villages in Bicol.
City Mayor Noel Rosal, in an interview on Monday, said the funds they have requested from the national government would finance projects that have been identified by the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) in line with the Executive Order (EO) 70 of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Rosal, the newly installed Regional Development Council (RDC) chairman in Bicol, said the peace and development initiatives would involve infrastructure projects such as farm-to-market roads, irrigation facilities, land reforms, health, and education facilities in identified remote villages considered by the RTF as conflict-vulnerable areas.
Under the program, the initial PHP3 billion worth of projects would be spent on top of the regular funds the regional national agencies have set and expected to be implemented this year, he said.
Another intervention that would significantly help the farmers would be the adoption of safeguard measures to protect them against the manipulation of farm produce prices by unscrupulous traders, Rosal said.
EO 70 issued last year by President Duterte aims to address the country’s security threats through a whole-of-nation approach.
Rosal believes that poverty, injustice, poor delivery of government services are among the root cause of insurgency, specifically in remote and depressed villages in Bicol.
In Bicol, there are 272 villages considered as insurgency-affected and influenced areas. Of this figure, 44 percent or 119 villages are in Masbate and the rest are in the five provinces.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1084373
City Mayor Noel Rosal, in an interview on Monday, said the funds they have requested from the national government would finance projects that have been identified by the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) in line with the Executive Order (EO) 70 of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Rosal, the newly installed Regional Development Council (RDC) chairman in Bicol, said the peace and development initiatives would involve infrastructure projects such as farm-to-market roads, irrigation facilities, land reforms, health, and education facilities in identified remote villages considered by the RTF as conflict-vulnerable areas.
Under the program, the initial PHP3 billion worth of projects would be spent on top of the regular funds the regional national agencies have set and expected to be implemented this year, he said.
Another intervention that would significantly help the farmers would be the adoption of safeguard measures to protect them against the manipulation of farm produce prices by unscrupulous traders, Rosal said.
EO 70 issued last year by President Duterte aims to address the country’s security threats through a whole-of-nation approach.
Rosal believes that poverty, injustice, poor delivery of government services are among the root cause of insurgency, specifically in remote and depressed villages in Bicol.
In Bicol, there are 272 villages considered as insurgency-affected and influenced areas. Of this figure, 44 percent or 119 villages are in Masbate and the rest are in the five provinces.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1084373
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