TACLOBAN CITY, Aug. 10 (PIA) -- The Samar Island Partnership for Peace and Development known as SIPPAD and led by the three bishops in Samar Island, is now a member of the Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF ELCAC).
This after Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Eduardo Del Rosario who is the Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security for Eastern Visayas and the Chairperson of the Regional Task Force 8-ELCAC, approved Resolution No. 1 Series of 2020 “A Resolution for the Inclusion of the Samar Island Partnership for Peace and Development (SIPPAD) as Regional Task Force 8- End Local Communist Armed Conflict Technical Working Group Member.”
To recall, during the July 7 meeting of the RTF8-ELCAC TWG, it passed a resolution for the SIPPAD to be considered to get one slot of the private sector representative in the Regional Task Force.
There are two slots for the private sector representative (PSR) in the RTF8-ELCAC TWG.
The guidelines in the creation of TF-ELCAC provide that in order to ensure the inter-agency convergence in the implementation of Programs, Projects and Activities in conflict-affected and vulnerable areas from the national down to the local levels, there is a need to create a similar task force in the region composed of members of the 12 clusters and with participation of the private sector.
Earlier, on February 21, 2020, during the 43rd Samar Island Partnership for Peace and Development (SIPPAD) meeting held at the St. Mary Academy in Borongan City, Eastern Samar, the three bishops of Samar Island accepted the challenge to become the lead convener of the localized peace talks with members of the New People’s Army (NPA).The prelates vowed to help end insurgency in the presence of Human Settlements and Urban Development Secretary Eduardo del Rosario, the Eastern Visayas cabinet officer for regional development and security, and Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Carlito Galvez Jr.
SIPPAD is a partnership composed of different sectors – church, government, academe, civil society organizations, youth and media – in the provinces of Northern Samar, Eastern Samar and Samar headed by the three bishops in the Diocese of Borongan, Calbayog, and Catarman, who oversee the church in Samar provinces. (PIA-8)
https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1050020
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