Refocusing Perspectives

President Rodrigo Duterte signed Executive Order No. 70 on December 4, 2018. This EO provides for the  institutionalization of the “ whole-of-nation ”  approach in attaining inclusive and sustainable peace, creating a national task force to end local communist armed conflict, and directing the adoption of a National Peace Framework. The EO defines this National Peace Framework as an embodiment of “ principles, policies, plans, programs, for inclusive and sustainable peace; address the root causes of insurgencies, internal disturbances and tensions as well as other armed conflicts and threats in identified areas. It will include a mechanism for localized peace engagements or negotiations and interventions that is nationally orchestrated, directed, supervised, while being locally implemented. ” This Whole-of-A-Nation as an approach is inspired on the Joint Communique of the 50 th  ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Manila on August 5, 2017 which posits the process “ as an al

1.  Enact priority measures mandated by the Bangsamoro law such as Electoral Code, Civil Service Code, Administrative Code, and other relevant policy including rules of proceedings; 2.  Review and integrate the Bangsamoro Development Plan, the Regional Development Plan of ARMM, the Camp Transformation Plan, and other Bangsamoro plans to make them responsive to the current needs. 3.  Study and design the appropriate bureaucracy for the Bangsamoro Government to ensure the right balance between the size of the bureaucracy and the services that need to be delivered as well as the appropriate skills required of people in the bureaucracy; 4.  Set up program that will respond to the pressing social and economic challenges in the Bangsamoro such as poverty, education, health, access to clean water and electricity, job opportunity, agriculture productivity, and access to capital market. These must be complemented with responsive strategic infrastructure in the region such as ports, road