A completion programme was held in Camp Abubakar on 17 January 2017 for the turnover and distribution of projects under the Mindanao Trust Fund – Reconstruction and Development Program (MTF-RDP). The projects include water system, cattle distribution, and completion ceremony for the learners of the Alternative Learning System.
The Mindanao Trust Fund (MTF) is a multi-donor grant facility established in 2005 to consolidate international development assistance for the socio-economic recovery of conflict-affected communities in Mindanao. The MTF-RDP has allocated Ninety Million Pesos (Php90,000,000) to finance the cost of literacy, livelihood and economic infrastructure programs for the six camps.
The transformation of the six previously acknowledged MILF camps is part of the confidence-building measures enumerated in the Annex on Normalization of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro.
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- Highlights of the programme include turnover of socio-economic infrastructure, distribution of support to livelihood, and completion ceremony of learners of Alternative Learning System. The projects are part of the Mindanao Trust Fund – Reconstruction and Development Program, which is administered by the World Bank.
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- GPH Implementing Panel Chair for the Bangsamoro Irene Santiago interacts with Bangsamoro women who are recipients of the cattle distribution project in Camp Abubakar, Brgy. Tugaig, Barira, Maguindanao. MILF Implementing Panel Chair Mohagher Iqbal and Mindanao Trust Fund Task Team Leader Matthew Stephens are also present during the cattle distribution. The project is part of the Mindanao Trust Fund – Reconstruction and Development Program, which is administered by the World Bank.
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- GPH Implementing Panel Chair for the Bangsamoro Irene Santiago interacts with Bangsamoro women who are recipients of the cattle distribution project in Camp Abubakar, Brgy. Tugaig, Barira, Maguindanao. MILF Implementing Panel Chair Mohagher Iqbal and Mindanao Trust Fund Task Team Leader Matthew Stephens are also present during the cattle distribution. The project is part of the Mindanao Trust Fund – Reconstruction and Development Program, which is administered by the World Bank.
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- Implementing Panel Chair for the Government Irene Santiago and Implementing Panel Chair for MILF Mohaqher Iqbal talk about their experiences prior the 2000 all-out-war, which was the last time both of them have stepped on the soils of Camp Abubakar. Matthew Stephens of World Bank noted that both panel chairs made history for being the first time in 17 years that both panel heads set foot together in the camp.
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- Khalil Nunting (left), 44 and a father of four children, is one of the 70 graduates of the Alternative Learning System (ALS) in Camp Abubakar. Nunting has been a combatant for the MILF for more than ten years. With his completion of the ALS program, he found renewed confidence in his capacity to give his children a better future. “Sana sa pamamagitan nito, sa tulong ng gobyerno at pagpupursige ko rin syempre, ay mapag-aral ko at mabigyan ng mabuting kinabukasan ang aking mga anak”, he said. The program is part of the Mindanao Trust Fund – Reconstruction and Development Program, which is administered by the World Bank.
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- Bangsamoro women express solidarity for peace and development during the visit of GPH Implementing Panel Chair Irene Santiago in Camp Abubakar.
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- OPAPP Usec. Nabil Tan drinks from the level II water system in Tugaig, Barira, Maguindanao constructed under the World Bank’s Mindanao Trust Fund. Looking on are OPAPP Asec. Ma. Cecilia Papa, MILF Implementing Panel Chair Mohagher Iqbal and World Bank representative Matthew Stephens. Barangay Tugaig is part of the MILF’s Camp Abubakar and has a total population of 2,019.
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- Chair of the GPH Implementing Panel for the Bangsamoro Accords Irene Santiago talks with the Iranun women to listen to their hopes and aspirations during her visit today at Camp Abubakar in Maguindanao where the fiercest firefights took place during the 2000 all-out-war. Santiago was member of a 9-women delegation who went to the camp in April of 2000 to talk with the late MILF Chairman Hashim Salamat as well as the government to persuade both sides not to fight.
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- GPH Implementing Panel Chair Irene Santiago offers advice to Jalani Bulyok and Hidjara Onawal, both Alternative Learning System (ALS) learners in Camp Abubakar, to never lose hope that one day they can achieve their dreams of becoming lawyers.
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- Irene Santiago, chair of the government implementing panel for the Bangsamoro accords, shares a light moment with the recipients of the cattle distribution project in Camp Abubakar, Barira, Maguindanao on January 17, 2017.
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- GPH Implementing Panel Chair Irene Santiago, MILF Imlementing Panel Chair Mohagher Iqbal, MILF Panel Member Timuay Melano Ulama, and Worldbank representative Mattew Stephens distribute the cattle as a part of the support to livelihood program for the widows of the MILF combatants.
