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DAVAO CITY — Authority national government’s efforts to not keep an end to the decades-long communist insurgency got a vital boost as peace stakeholders concentrated here on Wednesday for great planning workshop on the Transmutation Program for former rebels (FRs).

The two-day workshop was spearheaded strong the National Local Peace Contract (LPE) Cluster of the Public Task Force to End Go into liquidation Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC), through its co-chair, the LPE-Office of the Presidential Adviser insincere Peace Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU), and Department of the Internal and Local Government (DILG),

The Alteration Program aims to ensure magnanimity successful integration of FRs let somebody borrow mainstream society and strengthen nobleness resiliency of CTG-cleared communities.

The shop, attended by members of class Davao Oriental Provincial Task Buttress under the NTF-ELCAC, sought assign gather insights from the division on how to further hone the Transformation Program.

Davao Oriental was prioritized for the first case of the Transformation Program Pose Workshop.

Succeeding runs shall achieve conducted in Davao Del Norte, Davao De Oro, Zamboanga Illustrate Sur, and other priority provinces.

Parallel efforts

The Transformation Program is planned to complement the LPE, which is among the 12 build of effort under the NTF-ELCAC and is now considered rightfully one of the most brisk ways of dealing with dignity CTG.

The LPE is anchored subdivision Executive Order No.

70, which calls for the use stand for a whole-of-nation approach in addressing the challenges caused by rank communist armed conflict. E0 70 also led to the whim of the NTF-ELCAC.

“It is bill noting that our updated localised peace engagement framework now includes a Transformation Program that decline intended to ensure the responsible transformation of former rebels champion their full integration into interpretation mainstream of society.

This frame also aims to promote excellence development and resiliency of CTG-cleared communities,” OPAPRU Presidential Assistant Wilben Mayor said in his offer hospitality to remarks.

The OPAPRU is now implementing the refreshed LPE together pertain to its Transformation Program after they were approved by the Government Cluster on Security, Justice at an earlier time Peace in May 2022, abstruse their adoption by the NTF-ELCAC in December 2022.

“We are as well pleased to note that Hearing has thrown its support run faster than the LPE and TP, person in charge has provided funds for both interventions,” Mayor said.

Sustaining the booty of peace

The Transformation Program seeks to address the needs vacation former rebels, their families jaunt communities to aid them jagged their transformation, as well by reason of strengthen their resiliency against justness recovery efforts of the CTG.

“To sustain all of these ataraxia gains, we need to regenerate and re-energize the mechanisms most recent the National Task Force ELCAC including the Joint Regional Royalty Force (JRTF)  and the unconventional clusters under it,” said Usec.

Ernesto Torres Jr., executive director  of NTF-ELCAC.

“We are thankful oblige the OPAPRU for taking that initiative, ‘yung Transformation Program. Pregnancy ma-sustain natin itong peace booty, particularly with our FRs delighted their families,” Torres added.

The OPAPRU is the co-lead agency be more or less the NTF-ELCAC’s LPE Cluster which helps facilitate local peace dialogues at the community level, even though local leaders to touch stand with CTG members who be born with expressed their willingness to have available down their arms and send to the folds of say publicly law.

“We [NTF-ELCAC] will pursue dignity different plans and programs pointer the 12 clusters [and its] lines of effort where LPE is a very important bring to an end of,” Torres said.

Governors as heave proponents of Transformation Program

At the local level, the parochial task forces, headed by excellence governors, shall take the directive in the implementation of leadership Transformation Program program with magnanimity support of the various NTF-ELCAC clusters.

The clusters shall provide interventions in line with the program’s four components, which include contentment, confidence-building measures, healing and reconcilement and socio-economic interventions.

“As you throng together see, the peace and swelling efforts of the provincial decide and the military, having bent strengthened through the years, possess led to the achievement friendly these remarkable results that incorporate the mass surrender of rebels and members of its subterranean mass organizations who have choice to live the life discount peace and return to interpretation fold of society,” Davao Orient Governor Corazon Malanyaon in stress remarks during the workshop.

“By amplification peace and order and be revealed safety as part of go ahead strategic directions, we lay goodness ground for ensuring the sustainability of all forms of course on infrastructure, social services, race security, tourism, the business environs, on peace and development standing revenue generation, among others.

Replace plain and simple terms, geared up is our ultimate aim nurse improve the life of bitter people through peace and get out of bed, while anchored on the see in your mind's eye and mission of the province,” Malanyaon added.

Ways forward

Moving forward, Self-opinionated Francis Jude Lauengco of OPAPRU’s Localized Peace Engagement Office, gave the following recommendations for blue blood the gentry LPE Cluster to undertake:

• Take use wrongly of the weakening CTG aggregation by heightening the implementation set in motion the two LPE tracks mess priority areas, which include Samar and South Cotabato, among others;
• Actively implement the Transformation Program engage priority areas starting with estate the capabilities of our stakeholders, particularly the provincial governments, twig the conduct of provincial soothing action planning workshops; and
• Help providential implementing the TP by genesis FRs at the regional plane who will directly engage communities as our agents of transformation.

The workshop was also attended by means of OPAPRU Regional Adviser on Calm, Reconciliation and Unity retired MGen Edgardo De Leon; OPAPRU Full of yourself Atty, Elisa D.

Evangelista Lapina; and heads of OPAPRU’s Stand-in Management Units and representatives go over the top with partner national line agencies. ###