The government is committed to fulfilling the agreements contained in the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro.
The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) recently signed memoranda of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the National Irrigation Authority (NIA) that will create economic opportunities, rehabilitate irrigation facilities, and build key infrastructure that will help transform former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) combatants into peaceful and productive members of the communities.
Under the MOA, the OPAPP and the DTI will jointly carry out the P70-million Peaceful Return and Aggressive Inclusion Social Entrepreneurship Program that aims to provide livelihood and entrepreneurial projects, conduct a product-area feasibility study, and partially implement a special project for a host local government unit.
The DTI will establish a Technical Working Group to implement the operating guidelines and policies of the project under the oversight of the Joint Steering Committee of the Inter-cabinet Cluster Mechanism on Normalization’s Socioeconomic Cluster.
The project, which will run from October 2020 to June 2021, will be supervised by a Project Management Team consisting of representatives from local and national government agencies.
The MOA also states that the OPAPP and the NIA will jointly carry out the rehabilitation of major irrigation facilities and build much-needed infrastructure facilities to boost agricultural productivity and economic development in the region.
The P77-million project will cover identified areas in Maguindanao, North Cotabato and Lanao del Sur.
Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. thanked the DTI “for partnering with our agency so that we can help decommissioned MILF-Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces members make the successful transition to mainstream society.”
Galvez stressed the importance of creating livelihood opportunities for the former combatants and their families so they can live peaceful and productive civilian lives.
“The Bangsamoro region has a vast agriculture potential that is just waiting to be unlocked. With sufficient funding and technical support from the government, there is no doubt that the area can become one of the top agricultural hubs not only in Mindanao but throughout the country,” he said.
Galvez also expressed gratitude to the NIA for “scaling up efforts to help develop the agriculture potential of the region through the provision of adequate irrigation facilities and other much-needed infrastructure.”
https://politics.com.ph/moa-inked-to-enhance-economic-reintegration-of-ex-combatants/
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