MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, April 23 (PIA) --- The Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DSWD-ARMM) and the municipal governments in the province inked a Memorandum of Agreement for the implementation of the 2015 Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan (PAMANA) program.
The MOA was signed by Regional Vice Governor and concurrent DSWD-ARMM Secretary Haroun Alrashid Lucman Jr. and municipal mayors of the target municipalities Monday, April 20, at the Provincial Capitol Social Hall.
PAMANA is the government’s peace and development framework to respond and strengthen peace-building, reconstruction and development in conflict affected and vulnerable areas. It complements the government's peace negotiation efforts.
Rahima Datumanong Alba, PAMANA Project Manager Designate, said the 2015 PAMANA is the Cycle 2 of the PAMANA expansion projects that implement community-based livelihood and enterprising market which will benefit 1,777 barangays in 83 municipalities of the ARMM.
She said the PAMANA Cycle 2 will use the community-driven and development approach which empowers the target beneficiaries in the selection, implementation and monitoring of the projects.
The 2015 PAMANA will expand the existing community livelihood cooperatives (CLCs) by organizing another 30 subsistence-level households as extended project beneficiaries in the 1,777 target conflict-affected and vulnerable areas.
A P300,000-worth livelihood assistance will be released to the CLCs for community-based livelihood and enterprising market projects through identified modalities.
Alba said modalities could be agricultural production such as vegetables production; cottage industry such as abaca production, brass-making and wood carving; aquatic production; and small-scale infrastructure projects.
She however emphasized that the assistance will be released in the form of livelihood packages and resources such as materials.
In the province, a total of 925 barangays in 30 municipalities are set to benefit from the Cycle 2 of the PAMANA program. (APB/PIA-10)
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