Republic of the Philippines
Department of Agrarian Reform
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PAyapa at masaganang pamayanan - agrarian reform areas
The PAMANA ("Peaceful and Resilient Communities") is the Philippine Government's peace and development framework that aims to respond and strengthen peace-building, reconstruction and development in conflict affected areas (CAAs). It is in line with the government's goal of putting a permanent and just closure to internal armed conflicts of the country. It is a complementary track that will be undertaken to address the causes of conflict and issues that affect the peace process.
It will complement the peace negotiations track with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-Nationalist Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) as well closure programs for the Final Peace Agreements with the Moro National Liberation Front (1996), the Cordillera People‘s Liberation Army (1986) and the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Mangagawa ng Pilipinas- Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (2000). It seeks to close the gap between what happens in the negotiations and realities on the ground.
The government will thus undertake a two-pronged approach of: 1) negotiated political settlement of all armed conflict through peace negotiations; and 2) undertaking programs aimed at addressing the root causes of conflict through interventions on the ground. It realizes that many of the causes of conflict, such as poveily, poor delivery of basic social services, and bad governance are realities on the ground that should be addressed without delay.
The main strategy of the PAMANA is to bring back government in these communities by ensuring that they benefit from improved delivery of basic social services and are served by responsive, transparent and accountable governments on resource allocation and utilization, alongside economic development efforts. This is to ensure that the communities affected by armed conflict will feel the presence of government in their lives.
The PAMANA program framework provides the peace perspective in existing anti-poverty and development convergence programs of government. It shall serve as a guide for national and local government agencies, international donors and non-government organizations or institutions in providing various program interventions in CAAs. Such interventions are expected to go beyond implementing projects of assisting CAAs but would, in the process of doing so, foster peaceful relations between and among communities and duty bearers in addressing the root causes of armed conflict.
Project GOals, objectives, and key result
Project background
The PAMANA-Agrarian Reform Areas (PAMANA-ARA) Program shares a common vision with all DAR Projects in reducing poverty and quality of life in the agrarian reform areas. PAMANA aims to contribute to lasting peace by achieving the following objectives:
1. Reduce poverty and vulnerability-in conflict-affected areas through “- sustainable rural development, community infrastructure and focused delivery of social services;
2. Improve governance through partnerships with national and local institutions, building capacities for governance, and enhancement of transparency and accountability mechanisms; and,
3. Empower communities and strengthen their capacity to address issues of conflict and peace through activities that promote social cohesion.
The approaches it employs to achieve these objectives are: convergence of delivery of basic social services; good governance through responsive, transparent and accountable resoume allocation and utilization; community empowerment to enhance local demand of services conflict-affected barangays; and asset reform, to address age-old issues of agrarian unrest and encroachment and unimpeded exploitation of ancestral domains and natural resources. These approaches are largely shared by the ARC model.
The PAMANA-ARC Project will improve access of conflict affected areas that are implementing ARCDP, to quality basic social services and responsive, transparent and accountable local governments.
Key Performance Indicators.
• Number of targeted barangays that have implemented sub-projects that respond to expressed need for peace building through responsive social services
• Number of municipal LGUs that provided local counterpart contributions for community projects selected by CAA residents
• Number of community volunteers and ARC field workers trained by OPAPP on 1he application of peace and conflict sensitive facilitation and programming.