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| Name of Project |
SZOPAD Rehabilitation Project (ALA/PH/97/672) |
| Implementing Agency |
Southern Philippines Council for Peace and Development (SPCPD) |
| Total Funding |
2,402,000 |
| Grant/Loan |
2,000,000 |
| GoP Counterpart |
402,000 (from PFI, LGUs, Beneficiaries) |
| Start Date |
12 January 2001 |
| Completion Date |
24 months starting from the date of the TA signature |
| Project Location |
North Cotabato (Region XII) and Maguindanao Provinces |
| Beneficiaries |
Selected upland farming communities located in 16 |
| Project Background/Rationale |
Following the signing of a peace agreement between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the GOP called upon the donor community to focus its assistance to Mindanao, in particular, the Special Zone for Peace and Development (SZOPAD). In response, the EC mounted a mission in late 1997 to determine possible areas for assistance. Of special interest were interventions that would facilitate the integration of MNLF ex-combatants to civilian life, and rebuild community institutions affected by the 30 years of strife. A two-year rehabilitation programme was deemed most appropriate as an immediate response, with the formulation of a longer term rural development programme to be carried out in the course of implementation. |
| Project Objective |
The project aims to improve the well-being and incomes of former MNLF combatants and other members of their communities, especially those living in the upland farming communities. The project intends to improve incomes by introducing improved upland agricultural technologies and providing skills training to enable beneficiaries to access formal credit schemes/funding facilities. It also aims to improve well-being through the rehabilitation of basic health services delivery systems, and in the second year, productive activities. |
| Project Components |
- Skills
Training (open to all residents of SZOPAD)
- provision
of training for up to 500 SZOPAD residents on such fields as
construction, plumbing, carpentry and mechanical works
- support for
training in skills needed for project proposal preparation and general office work to
enable access to formal credit sources such as the SZOPAD Social Fund
- Drinking
Water Supply
- construction/rehabilitation of water
supply systems in 16 upland barangays benefiting 3,700 families, and formation of water users associations
- Basic Community Health Care
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training and provision of medical kits to 240 Barangay Health Workers
- repair/renovation of 16 barangay health units and
provision of medical equipment and initial stock of
medicines
- linking of the 16 barangays to the DOH referral network
and installation of a community-based
monitoring and
evaluation system for health
- Productive Activities/Community Development
-
promotion
of upland farming technologies to increase the yield of maize and
other upland crops, and to encourage soil and water
conservation practices
- provision
of marketing support to link households with buyers and processors,
and to promote post-
harvest loss prevention
- arranging
for a PFI to provide credit to beneficiaries for the purchase
of farming and fishing implements, agricultural
inputs, as well as working capital
- training
of up to 800 farmers on farm technologies and micro-enterprise management
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| For further Information Please Contact |
Mr. Romeo Sema/Dr. Giovanni Bentivegna
Co-Directors,
SZOPAD
Rehabilitation Project
4/F Elena V. Co Bldg.
Don Rufino Alonzo St.
Cotabato City
Tel/Fax: (064) 421-76-13
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