There's no let up in the government's efforts to improve
poor villages in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) under the
national government’s Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) program through
the region’s Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-ARMM).
Rahima Alba, DSWD-ARMM regional secretary, said at least
2,000 barangays in the five-province autonomous region are expected to receive
development projects within the year.
The projects would be delivered under the PAMANA Community
Driven Development (CDD) Expansion and PAMANA MNLF Program.
The PAMANA CDD Expansion will target a total of 1,777
barangays in the entire region while the PAMANA MNLF is set to be implemented
in 291 pre-identified barangays in 74 ARMM municipalities. Both initiatives are
in their last year of implementation.
Alba, also PAMANA program manager, said this year’s PAMANA
will be geared towards sustainability of the cooperatives the program has
established and supported.
“We want them (beneficiary cooperatives) to continue
operating, and for them to have even wider opportunities in their localities.
Even if the program ends, they can sustain their development,” Alba said.
In 2016, PAMANA-CDD will boost its implementation through
the Integrated Community Enterprising Market Program. This will augment
livelihood opportunities in conflict-affected and conflict-vulnerable
communities in three modalities that include Capacity development trainings,
Production of inputs; and Additional capital assistance.
Alba said each barangay would have a total project cost
allocation of PhP300,000.
The PAMANA MNLF program, on the other hand, will provide
services to the families of MNLF combatants through healthcare benefits,
college scholarships, tech-voc capacity development, and livelihood ventures
support. Each identified MNLF cooperative is allotted a project cost ceiling
worth Php885,000 from DSWD-ARMM.
From January 15 to 18, DSWD-ARMM has conducted an
orientation and planning workshop that marked the start of the 2016 project
implementation of the program.
It was designed to orient the stakeholders at the provincial
level on the new process and mechanisms of implementation of the last cycle of
PAMANA.
The program’s provincial teams, provincial social welfare
officers, project development officers, provincial focal persons, and special
project staff attended the three-day activity spearheaded by the agency’s
Regional Project Management Office.
Also present were officials from the PAMANA National Project
Management Office, which is under the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the
Peace Process (OPPAP).
Howard Cafugauan, OPAPP assistant secretary for Special
Programs, said by the end of 2015, a total of 5,659 households were covered
with health insurance, 400 beneficiaries received study grants, and 5,115
households – specifically those displaced by the 2008 conflict brought about by
the rejection of the Memorandum of Agreement on the Ancestral Domain – were
provided with shelters.
PAMANA is a project aimed at making citizens become stronger
agents of peace and development in the region and in the country.
This is the current administration’s peace and development
framework anchored on promoting inclusive growth and lasting peace.
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