CORDS 12 and TESDA Secretary convenes the SOCCSKSARGEN's Regional Task Force to End Local Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) every last Friday of the month for closer and more regular updating of the accomplishments line of efforts in the target barangays. The 6th monthly meeting of the task force was held in Kidapawan City and was hosted by the Provincial Government of Cotabato.
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Mar. 3 (PIA) — Barangays identified for the government’s Retooled Community Support Program (RCSP) are guaranteed projects that would boost economic development and ensure delivery of basic services, SOCCSKSARGEN’S cabinet official for regional development and security (CORDS) announced last week.
TESDA Secretary Isidro Lapeña, CORDS 12, made the announcement in a meeting with the technical working group of the Regional Task Force to End Local Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) XII and local government unit officials in General Santos City on Thursday and in the 6th monthly meeting of the RTF-ELCAC XII in Kidapawan City on Friday.
“In a recent Cabinet meeting, the Department of Budget and Management announced that there are available funds to fast-track interventions in priority barangays,” Lapeña said.
Among the projected support for the RCSP priority barangays include farm-to-market roads from the Department of Agriculture and Department of Public Works and Highways, four-classroom school buildings from the Department of Education, potable water and sanitation projects from the Department of the Interior and Local Government, and health stations from the Department of Health, he said.
Although funds are assured, he emphasized, regional government agencies and the LGUs should not wait for actual downloading of the allotment but should already step up convergent initiatives in target villages such as agricultural production assistance from DA, livelihood support from the Department of Labor and Employment and Department of Trade and Industry, and skills training from Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
In response, Dr. Fatima Emban, assistant regional director of DOH XII, informed Sec. Lapeña that the health department is committed to provide health station with birthing facility as well as midwives and nurses to every RCSP priority barangays.
Officials from DA XII and other agencies present also assured Sec. Lapeña that development efforts are ongoing in barangays identified for implementation of the RCSP.
RCSP is a convergence mechanism for local government units for identification of issues and concerns in target barangay and the provision of needed government interventions and services in a whole-of-nation approach in line with the efforts to end local armed conflict as mandated in President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s Executive Order No. 70.
Programs and projects to be implemented by concerned agencies are those identified and proposed by the barangays.
In SOCCSKSARGEN Region, 62 barangays are being considered for the convergence program this year. These barangays have been cleared of communist terrorist group presence by the Armed Forces through their Community Support Programn (CSP).
During the RTF-ELCAC meeting in Kidapawan City, Sec, Lapeña directed the regions’s four provincial governors to identify a pilot site from the list of RCSP barangays in their respective jurisdictions.
“Under the leadership of the governors, all national government agencies – in a whole-of-nation approach – will deliver the projects and basic services needed. Once the initial projects are put in place in the pilot barangays, the focus will be expanded to other barangays,” he said.
The government needs to expedite interventions in these villages to attain the objectives of the Executive Order No. 70 within the administration of President Duterte, Lapeña said. (DED-PIA XII)
TESDA Secretary Isidro Lapeña, CORDS 12, made the announcement in a meeting with the technical working group of the Regional Task Force to End Local Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) XII and local government unit officials in General Santos City on Thursday and in the 6th monthly meeting of the RTF-ELCAC XII in Kidapawan City on Friday.
“In a recent Cabinet meeting, the Department of Budget and Management announced that there are available funds to fast-track interventions in priority barangays,” Lapeña said.
Among the projected support for the RCSP priority barangays include farm-to-market roads from the Department of Agriculture and Department of Public Works and Highways, four-classroom school buildings from the Department of Education, potable water and sanitation projects from the Department of the Interior and Local Government, and health stations from the Department of Health, he said.
Although funds are assured, he emphasized, regional government agencies and the LGUs should not wait for actual downloading of the allotment but should already step up convergent initiatives in target villages such as agricultural production assistance from DA, livelihood support from the Department of Labor and Employment and Department of Trade and Industry, and skills training from Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
In response, Dr. Fatima Emban, assistant regional director of DOH XII, informed Sec. Lapeña that the health department is committed to provide health station with birthing facility as well as midwives and nurses to every RCSP priority barangays.
Officials from DA XII and other agencies present also assured Sec. Lapeña that development efforts are ongoing in barangays identified for implementation of the RCSP.
RCSP is a convergence mechanism for local government units for identification of issues and concerns in target barangay and the provision of needed government interventions and services in a whole-of-nation approach in line with the efforts to end local armed conflict as mandated in President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s Executive Order No. 70.
Programs and projects to be implemented by concerned agencies are those identified and proposed by the barangays.
In SOCCSKSARGEN Region, 62 barangays are being considered for the convergence program this year. These barangays have been cleared of communist terrorist group presence by the Armed Forces through their Community Support Programn (CSP).
During the RTF-ELCAC meeting in Kidapawan City, Sec, Lapeña directed the regions’s four provincial governors to identify a pilot site from the list of RCSP barangays in their respective jurisdictions.
“Under the leadership of the governors, all national government agencies – in a whole-of-nation approach – will deliver the projects and basic services needed. Once the initial projects are put in place in the pilot barangays, the focus will be expanded to other barangays,” he said.
The government needs to expedite interventions in these villages to attain the objectives of the Executive Order No. 70 within the administration of President Duterte, Lapeña said. (DED-PIA XII)
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