Bancasi, Butuan City – The Regional Development Council (RDC) of Caraga Region ensured the inclusion of the needed projects for the Geographically Isolated, Disadvantaged and Conflict-Affected Areas (GIDCAs) within the Peace and Development Zone (PDZs) after it successfully endorsed the Road Projects for FY2021 Proposed Budget during the 101st Caraga RDC Meeting held at NEDA Building Conference Hall, J. Rosales Avenue, Butuan City last March 11, 2020.
A total of two hundred seventy-six (276) road projects amounting to PhP22.39 billion was endorsed to address the needs of one hundred fourteen (114) barangays belonging to identified PDZ areas.
As per Resolution Number 16, Series of 2019 of the Caraga RTF-ELCAC, the priority barangays in Caraga Region for focused development interventions to End Local Communist Armed Conflict through the “Whole of Nation” approach in attaining inclusive and sustainable peace and development are categorized into two (2) focus areas namely: Focus Area A – Conflict-Affected Areas/Conflict Vulnerable Areas (CAAs/CVAs), Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDAs) and Poverty Incidence (30%); Focus Area B – Conflict-Affected Areas/Conflict Vulnerable Areas (CAAs/CVAs) and Poverty Incidence (30%).
Last July 2018, the Regional Development Council (RDC) and Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) Caraga declared all Guerilla Bases as Peace and Development Zone (PDZ) as the region’s banner program to combat insurgency by addressing the root causes of conflict. PDZ is conceptualized as a peace-building initiative/effort promoting peace-building processes that facilitates the establishment of durable peace and prevents the recurrence of violence by addressing the root causes and effects of conflict through the convergence of peace stakeholders.
In his statement Brigadier General Maurito L Licudine, Commander, 402nd Brigade said that “With the recurring insurgency problems in the identified CPP-NPA Terrorist (CNT) affected barangays, it is imperative to find solutions not only confined in confronting the armed component of the CNTs. We thank all regional line agencies, local leaders and partner stakeholders for ensuring that pressing issues in identified communities are given prime importance. The road projects are very vital to the economy and livelihood of the people living in the GIDCA areas as it will ease their burdenparticularin transporting their products and commodities”.
“Where development begins, insurgency ends precisely because the CTGs have no issues left to exploit and use to agitate the people to fight the government. These terrorists thrive when it seems there is no government existing in a community. The prompt response of the Caraga RDC in providing developmental projects and services to our people will surely end the insurgency here in Caraga region”, BGen Licudine added.
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