Army official assures ELCAC budget will go directly to communities
Philippine Information Agency
17 May 2021, 18:38 GMT+10
MABINAY, Negros Oriental, May 17 (PIA) The commander of the Philippine Army (PA) brigade based in Negros Oriental clarified that the funding which the government allocated for the implementation of Barangay Development Programs (BDP) will not go to the country s armed forces as it will be given directly to communities affected by insurgency. Hindi po iyan papasok sa bulsa ng mga militar o kapulisan kundi yan po ay pupunta sa barangay. Talaga po didiretso yan kasi sa DILG dadaan ang pondo pero kung walang permiso ang ating Kongreso ay baka mawala po. Sama-sama po tayo manawagan na hindi sana siya ma-defund (The funds will not go to the pockets of the military or the police. It will be given directly to the barangay since the budget will be lodged at DILG. However, if the Congress will not allow the release of the budget, then the funding allocation will b
DUMAGUETE CITY, May 10 (PIA) All barangays in Negros Oriental identified as priority areas under the government’s “whole of nation approach to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC) program can expect a P20-M budget allocation from the government for the implementation of their Barangay Development Plans (BDP) next year.
This was disclosed by Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG- 7) Regional Director Leocadio Trovela who said that ELCAC priority barangays in Central Visayas are included in the second batch of beneficiaries of BDP funding which is slated for release in 2022.
DILG-7 Regional Director Leocadio Trovela, in an interview with PIA, said 83 barangays in Central Visayas will get P20-M from the NTF ELCAC for their Barangay Development Programs (BDP) in 2022. (KAT/PIA7-NegOr)
By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Published January 31, 2021 5:36pm National Security Adviser Hermogenes C. Esperon Jr. on Sunday hit back at the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) for claiming that the barangay development programs (BDP) of the government’s anti-communist task force are mere “band-aid” solutions to cover up the “roots of peasant unrest in the countryside. In a statement, Esperon described the CPP s assertions, as released by its information officer Marco Valbuena, as merely an act of desperation on the part of the left-wing organization. Contrary to Valbuena s claims, he said the BDP is the flagship program of the Duterte administration to end the local communist armed conflict by addressing the root causes of insurgency.