PALO, Leyte, Mar. 3 (PIA) -- Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security (CORDS) for Eastern Visayas, Secretary Eduardo del Rosario, issued guidance to the Region 8 Regional Task Force-ELCAC in the charting of the 2020 action plan towards the realization of the collective aspiration of the people of Region 8 to attain inclusive and sustainable peace and development.
Meeting with the RTF8 Cluster leads on February 19 at NEDA 8 Regional Office, Del Rosario who is also the Secretary of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development, as he went over the initial implementation plan of the various clusters and gave his comments for the improvement of the plan, showed the Cluster leads that he has full gasp of the mission and that he can lead and guide the Regional Task Forces to the right path in order to get to the vision of lasting peace and development in the region.
Among the guidance of CORDS Del Rosario is the full operationalization of the RTF8 Operations Center which is located at the DILG 8 Compound.
The second floor of the building has a conference room, a radio and communications room, a work area for those on duty, and a dormitory for ladies and another for men.
Another guidance is the establishment of a multi-advisory body for RTF8-ELCAC.
Recently, SIPPAD, the Samar Island Partnership for Peace and Development, agreed to become an NGO member of RTF8-ELCAC.
To recall, EO 70 mandates that in the creation of Task Forces-ELCAC, the private sector, not only the government sector must be included to really attain the whole-of-nation approach.
The RTF8-ELCAC shall accomplish its goals in two years by clearing CPP-NPA by phases with all RTF clusters’ programs focused on priority areas until all areas shall have been cleared.
One important positive development is that the CORDs was able to convince the three bishops in Samar Island to lead their respective province’s Local Peace Engagement Cluster.
Another guidance of CORDS Del Rosario is for RTF8-ELCAC to speed up the organization of Task Forces-ELCAC up to the barangay level. Secretary Del Rosario said he is happy with the accomplishment of RTF8-ELCAC but more TF must be organized at the barangay level.
So far, all the six provinces and all the sever cities in the Region have organized their Task Forces-ELCAC. Some 120 out of 136 municipalities have organized their task forces- ELCAC. Only 312 out of 4,390, barely 7 percent of the barangays in the region, however, have organized their ELCAC Task Forces.
CORDS 8 also observed that many LGUs on their own volition, have declared the CPP-NPA persona non-grata.
“Task Forces must organize and operationalize their respective clusters and their sub clusters that are still inactive to perform their roles per EO70,” Secretary Del Rosario added.
Moreover, the Regional Cluster, in consultation with the PLEDS Cluster, must review and finalize the list of barangays for funding in 2021.
RTF8- ELCAC TWG has adopted the Retooled Community Service Program as its umbrella program in operationalizing EO70 in Eastern Visayas. (opt/PIA8)
https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1035627
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.