Official vows evacuees’ aid program monitoring

Saturday, July 23, 2011
COTABATO CITY — The National Government will cut off funding for peace and development projects found to have been used for graft, the presidential peace adviser said Saturday.
In an interview, Secretary Teresita Quintos-Deles of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (Opapp) said local governments will be held accountable for housing and livelihood programs paid for by the National Government.
She said P526 million has been allocated for the Pamana program, a framework that will provide houses and livelihood for conflict-hit communities. Around P10 million has already been allocated for livelihood projects in North Cotabato, and P15 million for projects in Maguindanao.
Deles said those programs will include cattle-fattening, goat raising, and fish farming. She said Opapp is also looking into tapping the Halal (lawful or legal for Muslims) market.
Another P1.9 billion is expected for the program in 2012, she said.
But if local government units (LGUs) fail to deliver, “then I’m sorry, the second tranche of money won’t come.”
She said Opapp will then have to look for another agency or LGU to implement the project.
Deles said the National Government knows how many houses can be built with a certain amount, and will be able to monitor implementation of projects.
She said all disbursements of Pamana funds will be posted online and will be displayed on billboards at the Pamana villages so people will know how much money was released for a project.
Deles was in Cotabato City Saturday to formally launch the Pamana program.
On Friday, the Opapp, Department of Social Welfare and Development, and the local governments of Maguindanao and North Cotabato also launched the Pamana program in communities of internally-displaced persons (IPDs).
Beneficiaries in Talayan, Maguindanao and Pigcawayan, North Cotabato were given solar chargers, relief goods, books, and school supplies.
The first of 2,645 displaced families that the program aims to serve were also given core shelter units, houses made of either kalakat (woven palm fronds) or Hardiflex.
Maguindanao pledges peace
Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu, who was at the launch, promised Saturday that he will not initiate conflict in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
“I will not start trouble,” he said, adding his people have grown tired of fighting.
He said “the previous administration was the root of the conflicts.” He said the past administration used his people and “looked for trouble where there was no trouble.”
The governor said this was done to take advantage of government and international aid.
“But now, they are paying for that,” he said, possibly referring to the Ampatuan clan accused of involvement in the Maguindanao Massacre of 2009.
Mangudadatu’s wife and two sisters were among the 58 killed in an ambush, believed orchestrated by the Ampatuans, as their convoy headed to the provincial capital of Shariff Aguak.
The governor said his province has suffered the most from fighting in Central Mindanao.
In 2000, when the government declared an all-out war against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), around 985,000 people fled their homes, he said. That was the first of three major waves of displacement.
The latest was in 2008, when fighting broke out between the government and the MILF. The conflict started after the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain.
The Supreme Court issued an injunction against the scheduled signing in August 2008 over criticism that the government entered the agreement without consultation. Critics of the agreement said the Bangsamoro Juridical Entity it proposed would have violated the Constitution because it would create “a state within a state.”
The government and the MILF are back at the negotiation table and the Opapp hopes a peace deal will be forged before the end of President Benigno Aquino III’s term. (Jonathan de Santos/Sunnex)

Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2011/07/23/official-vows-evacuees-aid-program-monitoring-168596

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