BDP PROJECT. Residents of Barangay Magangit in Maco town, Davao de Oro receives their newly-constructed health center from the government's Barangay Development Program (BDP) under the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on Feb. 8, 2022. The program aims to eradicate the root causes of the insurgency, poverty, disease, lack of education and opportunities, and social injustice in far-flung communities across the country identified to have been influenced by the communist ideology. (Photo courtesy of Davao de Oro PIO) MANILA - The slashed budget of the government's anti-insurgency task force will not only affect this year's nationwide implementation of the Barangay Development Program (BDP) but also "breaks the hearts" of the beneficiary communities. In a press conference on Monday, National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) spokesperson and Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy lamented that hundre