The Marcos administration stated it could speed up the implementation of the Normalization Program for former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) combatants, their households and communities.
The program, which has been referred to as for within the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) handed in 2014, goals to uplift the situations of the ex-MILF combatants, their households and communities.
Special Assistant to the President Antonio Lagdameo Jr., through the tenth assembly of the Inter-Cabinet Cluster Mechanism on Normalization (ICCMN) on Thursday, stated the normalization program is a part of authorities efforts to provide significance to the attainment of long-lasting peace within the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
Lagdameo additionally referred to as on member-agencies of the ICCMN “to ensure that committed deliverables are met in the near-term, and that those facing significant challenges due to budgetary constraints or implementing agency absorptive capacity are flagged at the soonest possible opportunity.”
Among the measures included within the normalization program are coaching and sustainable livelihood actions.
Meanwhile, Presidential Peace Adviser and ICCMN Co-Chairperson Carlito Galvez, Jr. urged ICCMN member-agencies to proceed their socioeconomic interventions underneath the Normalization Program for fiscal 12 months 2023.
In explicit, Galvez cited the next:
- Technical Education And Skills Development Authority for its Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for decommissioned MILF combatants;
- Department of Labor and Employment for its Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) Program;
- Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) for offering delivery registration help to decommissioned combatants (DCs);
- National Irrigation Authority (NIA) for neighborhood irrigation methods in MILF communities; and
- Department of Social Welfare and Development for serving to former combatants via its Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP).
Galvez additionally stated the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) will proceed the next initiatives in 2024 underneath the National Expenditure Program:
- rapid money help for decommissioned combatants (DCs) underneath the fourth section of decommissioning;
- research grants for 1,050 DCs;
- the availability of medical insurance premiums; and
- the conduct of Alternative Learning System (ALS) for DCs.
OPAPRU can even construct a fish port, 5 evacuation facilities, seven bridges, 11 roads and 15 water methods within the 33 core barangays inside the six previously-acknowledged MILF camps, via its PAyapa at MAsagaNAng Pamayanan (PAMANA) program.
Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa, through the assembly, additionally stated the Department of Health was in a position to accomplish the next underneath the Normalization Program:
- producing 15 registered midwives who’re the offspring of MILF combatants;
- 25% completion of rural well being infrastructures tasks;
- processing of the PhilHealth membership of combatants; and
- steady development of well being, main care, and different particular services.
Meanwhile, BARMM Minister of Interior and Local Government Naguib Sinarimbo stated the BARMM is “open to doing attribution of our programs to complement the national government programs for the combatants and communities.”
The Bangsamoro Organic Law, which operationalizes the CAB was ratified in 2019, Lagdameo stated.
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 pushed again the implementation of the Normalization Program, he added.
The ICCMN was established in April 2019 underneath the Duterte administration to make sure the well timed, acceptable, and environment friendly implementation of the Normalization Program.
The Marcos administration in the meantime issued Executive Order No. 6 in 2022 to strengthen the ICCMN. —KG, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
