President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a national plan to integrate the efforts to deliver goods and services to the communities affected by conflict, Malacañang said Tuesday.
Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo said Duterte will assign Cabinet members to oversee the peace and development efforts in those areas.
He said Duterte approved the “whole-of-nation plan” during the first meeting of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict or NTFELCAC in Malacañang on Monday night.
“PRRD today rallied all instrumentalities of government, the private sector and the entire Filipino nation to actively work together in a whole-of-the-nation movement to address violent conflicts as well as build a culture of peace and development throughout the country,” Panelo said.
“The President approved a national plan that would integrate and harmonize the various efforts of the whole of government and of all sectors of society in delivering goods and services as well as in providing for peace and security especially in conflict-affected communities.”
Panelo said Cabinet members and other government heads agreed that the “whole-of-nation movement” was not directed at defeating the communist insurgency, but rather to demonstrate genuine good governance for the betterment of the lives of the people.
“To effectively manage the whole-of-nation movement, the President will assign each of his Cabinet members to oversee the peace and development efforts in all regions of the country,” Panelo said.
“The designated Cabinet officer for the region will be supported by a unified, an integrated Regional Development Council and Regional Peace and Order Council.
“By effectively managing barriers and challenges to peace and development, the whole-of-nation movement envisions to build resilient and robust communities that promote the welfare and the well-being of the Filipino people.”
Under Executive Order 70, Duterte established the NTFELCAC “to provide an efficient mechanism and structure for the implementation of the Whole-of-Nation Approach to aid in the realization of the collective aspirations for inclusive and sustainable peace.”