DAR upbeat to attain peace, development in southern NegOcc

NEGROS. Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer I Enrique Paderes speaks before the participants during the convergence mapping and planning activity at the Nature’s Village Resort in Talisay City earlier this week. (Contributed Photo)
NEGROS. Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer I Enrique Paderes speaks before the participants during the convergence mapping and planning activity at the Nature’s Village Resort in Talisay City earlier this week. (Contributed Photo)

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Occidental – South has expressed optimism that insurgency-free and progressive agrarian reform communities (ARCs) in Negros Occidental can be achieved soon as government efforts have already been intensified through convergence of development programs and interventions.

Almost 70 national and local government agencies, local government units (LGUs) and non-government organizations (NGOs) convened for convergence mapping and planning at the Nature’s Village Resort in Talisay City earlier this week.

Provincial Agrarian Reform program officer I Enrique Paderes said they identified and discussed issues which need to be addressed, areas and manner of convergence and interventions to be introduced by various stakeholders on identified areas including ARCs.

Paderes said they would like to ensure that such initiative would complement to President Rodrigo Duterte’s Executive Order No. 70, “Institutionalizing the Whole-of-Nation Approach in Attaining Inclusive and Sustainable Peace, Creating a National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict and Directing the Adoption of a National Peace Framework.”

“In order to address local insurgencies and attain sustainable peace and inclusive growth, government effort must be more responsive to the needs of the community,” he said, adding that they are mandated to focus their development efforts nationwide on addressing issues like poverty, inaccessibility of services and social inequity.

DAR-Negros Occidental II is banking on the support of the local chief executives and other government agencies as members of the Provincial Carp Implement Team (PCIT), pursuant to Executive Order No. 406.

Also, they are considered as primary actors in the Retooled Community Support Program (RCSP), it said.

As per Department of the Interior and Local Government Guidelines (DILG) guidelines, it said that the RCSP is a convergence mechanism for LGUs particularly in the barangay for the identification of issues and needed government interventions.

It is anchored on the empowerment framework that intends to develop people’s capability to organize themselves and own development by bringing about value-chain interventions to uplift their current condition.

In Negros Occidental, the provincial government has launched the “Serbisyo Negrosanon” to implement the RCSP earlier this year. It was hosted by the Municipal Government of Isabela.

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