MANILA (Mitch Confesor / 14 Jun) The Philippines is batting for the full implementation this year of a nationwide program under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of resolving or even preventing armed conflicts and building peace and development in the country.
The Conflict Prevention and Peace Building (CPPB) Program is one of the components of the Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP) for 2005-2009 that the government through the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) here signed last year.
As the implementing partner for CPAP’s peace and development component under the co-chairpersonship of NEDA and UNDP-Philippines, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) has also been designated as CPPB’s implementing partner.
Evelyn Daplas, OPAPP Assistant Secretary and CPPB National Programme Director, said other parties under the program’s Annual Work Plan (AWP) for this year include five academic institutions, four civil society organizations (CSOs), and one local government unit (LGU).
Daplas said that CPPB’s coverage is primarily Luzon and the Visayas for area-based and capacity-building programs, starting with the province of Bohol as so far the only LGU partner, but its coverage is nationwide for policy and development programs.
She said CPPB has adopted the UN’s partnership strategy involving government and CSO partners in any program development and implementation, this time with OPAPP as the designated implementing partner with the assistance of the CPPB Programme Management Office (PMO) under Programme Manager Pio Fuentes.
“CPPB outcomes include peace-building, conflict prevention, and human security in the mainstream of development processes,” Daplas said. “Key actors are better able to prevent, manage, and resolve conflicts as well as build peace and human security, thereby improving access of conflict-affected communities to basic services and increasing the peoples’ incomes and their participation in governance.”
Romulo Neri, the Economic Secretary, and Deborah Landey, UNDP Resident Representative, signed on April 11, 2005 the CPAP 2005-2009 document, which has embodied UNDP’s contribution to the government’s development priorities as set out in the Medium Term Philippine Development Plan (MTPDP) for 2004-2010 and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for 2005-2009.
One of UNDAF’s expected outcomes is that the level of violent conflict will have been reduced by 2009 and that human security and the culture of peace will have been promoted nationwide by that same year.
For its part, the national government aims to achieve a permanent cessation of armed hostilities by 2010, rehabilitate conflict-affected areas toward peace and development, attain healing and reconciliation among peoples in conflict, broaden the peace constituency and strengthen citizens’ participation in the overall peace process, and create and sustain an environment conducive to peace.
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