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==Empowerment venture benefits Lanao Sur out-of-school youth==
*Source:https://ph.news.yahoo.com/empowerment-venture-benefits-lanao-sur-school-youth-185347011.html
*Sunday, April 20, 2014
: (Manila Bulletin)
Cotabato City – The National Youth Commission (NYC) has included Lanao del Sur among the selected provinces participating in a country-wide program that seeks to reintegrate the out-of-school youths (OSYs) to both formal and informal educations, and provide them opportunities to gain decent employment and develop entrepreneurship.
Undersecretary Leon Flores III, NYC chairman, and Lanao del Sur Governor Mamintal Alonto-Adiong Jr., alongside other stakeholders, recently launched the “ABOT ALAM” program in Marawi City to kick off various enabling activities for the benefit of the youth sector, particularly the OSYs in the province.
At the launching rite, Adiong lauded the NYC for making his turf as the first province of the 24-year-old Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to be part of the program.
The Muslim governor said his administration fervently adheres to the popular adage that the youth is the “hope of the motherland,” and that the “ABOT ALAM” program is a stimulant to the dream cum saying,
“While we have high hope on our young generations, we are wary that instances of abuse and neglect beset the youth sector. The ABOT ALAM program should be nurtured to make the difference,” Adiong said.
For his part, Flores said that ABOT ALAM is being assisted by the Department of Education (DepEd) as “the biggest integrated program for helping community-based OSYs.”
The program is a three-year national strategy “harmonizing efforts for OSYs, affording them opportunities to go back to school, gain decent employment, and become entrepreneurs,” Flores said.
The program has two phases – the first phase seeks to create database for profiled OSYs and register them to the program, while the second part involves reintegrating processes that include orientations and training on various community undertakings of their choice, ABOT ALAM project coordinator Christabel Bautista said.
At the launching rite, program implementing personnel provided youth sector representatives with related documents, which include primers in English and Filipino, registration forms, and copies national edicts governing the project.
==Maguindanao’s ALIM reaffirms support to prov’l leadership==
*Source:http://zamboangatimes.ph/zamboangatimes/top-news/10399-maguindanaos-alim-reaffirms-support-to-provl-leadership.html
*Saturday, April 19, 2014 13:33
: (Zamboanga Times)
Leaders and peace activists from across Maguindanao comprising the “tri-people” Alliance of Lumads Iranons and Maguindanaons (ALIM) renewed their support to Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu’s leadership and agreed to intensify their patronage of the peace efforts of the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Members of ALIM even gave credence to their commitments of support to the implementation of the Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro (CAB) by pledging over the Qur’an to protect and nurture the gains of the GPH-MILF peace initiative.
The founding chairman of ALIM, Maguindanao Vice Gov. Lester Sinsuat, said they embarked on the “spiritual session” to allay public speculations sparked by rumors being spread by certain quarters that the bloc, a staunch supporter of the Mindanao peace process, had been weakened by irreconcilable political differences among members.
He said it would be difficult for them to support the peace process if people would believe in the rumors and, as consequence, lose their trust and confidence in ALIM as a peace-oriented organization.
The meeting of ALIM’s new and pioneer members at the Al-Nor Convention Center in Cotabato City on Tuesday afternoon was jointly presided over by Sinsuat and Mangudadatu.
The activity was attended by a senior ALIM member, North Upi Mayor Ramon Piang, an ethnic Teduray tribal chieftain, who, as member of the government’s peace panel, helped draft the wealth-and-power sharing annex to the government-MILF Oct. 15, 2012 Framework Agreement on Bangsamoro.
Sinsuat and Mangudadatu both reiterated to reporters, during the meeting, their commitment of support to the peace overture between the government and the MILF.
The CAB, which was signed by GPH chief negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, and her MILF counterpart, Muhaquer Iqbal, last March 27 in Malacañang, is the final peace deal between the government and the rebel group, a product of 17 years of  painstaking negotiations.
Sinsuat had repeatedly refuted, in a message to ALIM members and supporters, among them officials of various civil society organizations, what he called gossips that are being spread by certain camps, purporting that his alliance with Mangudadatu had been cut by irreconcilable administrative and political misunderstandings.
Sinsuat also denied mounting speculations he will contest the governor’s bid for a third term in 2016.
Sinsuat declined to comment when asked by reporters if “peace spoilers” could have spread the rumors, incensed by his being so outspoken, just like Mangudadatu, of his support to the on-going government-MILF effort to establish a new Bangsamoro political entity that would replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao before the 2016 ARMM regional polls.
He said Mangudadatu, who is his uncle by blood, remains to be his political principal and that their solidarity have never been wedged even since they ran as a tandem, under the banner of the Liberal Party, during the May 13, 2013 local elections.
The appointed deputy governor of Maguindanao, Ramil Dilangalen, who helped organize Tuesday’s gathering, said one purpose of the event was to show the cohesive support of local officials and peace activists to the efforts of Malacanang and the MILF to foster lasting peace and development in Mindanao’s Moro communities, which both sides wants to group together under a new Bangsamoro political entity.
“We ought to thank our governor and our vice governor for exemplifying genuine unity even if the former is from the first district of Maguindanao, and the latter comes from the second district of the province, just for them to become effective in helping the government and MILF establish tranquility in our communities,” Dilangalen said.
Foreign-trained clerics officiated the traditional swearing over the Qur’an by the ALIM members, before representatives of different media outfits in Mindanao and in Metro Manila.
Dilangalen said Mangudadatu was elated with the participation of new ALIM members to the ritual, among them local officials from the second district of the province.
Among the new Alim members that participated in the ritual were Board Members Bobby Katambak of the second district of Maguindanao, and Asnawi Sinsuat Limbona, and Russman Sinsuat, Jr., both from the first district of the province.
The ALIM started in 2013 with only local officials from the first district of Maguindanao as its members.
==MSU graduates urged to help make CAB successful==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=636145
*Friday, April 18, 2014
: (PNA), SCS/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY, April 18 (PNA) -- A member of the peace panel of the Moro Islamic Liberation Frot (MILF) has urged graduates of a state-run university in Mindanao to actively take part for the successful implementation of the Bangsamoro government and help make their Alma mater a world-class university.
Professor Abhoud Syed Mansur Lingga, MILF peace panel member and executive director of Institute of Bangsamoro Studies, was commencement exercises speaker of the 49th Baccalaureate Services and Awarding Ceremonies of the Mindanao State University in Marawi City on Thursday.
"You as graduates of this great institution have important roles to play, stand up and be counted," Lingga told the 1,175 graduates.
"Help make MSU a world-class university and in the successful implementation of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB)," he said. "Please make use of the education you earned in this prestigious university in the making of the Bangsamoro government," Lingga said.
He also told the graduates that the CAB and the Bangsamoro government that will be entrenched are not for the MILF but for the entire Bangsamoro people.
"As graduates, you have many things to offer in building a successful Bangsamoro entity – you have the ideals, innovative and creative ideas and capacity to think outside the box," he stressed.
He also urged the MSU to play active role in the building of a new Bangsamoro.
Specifically, he mentioned policy formulations on governance and the exercise of the 58 exclusive powers of the Bangsamoro government and to provide training for the human resource needs of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) and the regular Bangsamoro government where MSU can contribute so much.
He said the CAB is a unique approach to resolve the decades-old armed conflict between the Bangsamoro people and the Philippine government.
“The CAB is all about system change and building of institutions to support the new political and economic arrangements for the Bangsamoro,” Lingga said.
He told the graduates, 17 of whom graduated magna cum laude, 81 cum laude and 13 with honors, that the successful implementation of the CAB will not only end the armed conflict but will usher in a new era in the Bangsamoro homeland where there will be no more evacuees, no more Bangsamoro children out-of-school, no Bangsamoro constituent will die without seeing a doctor or go hungry.
"In the new era, every Bangsamoro will be free from fear of violence, and free to exercise his/her democratic rights. The young Bangsamoro will have the opportunity to engage in entrepreneurial activities that will drive the Bangsamoro economy towards growth and prosperity," Lingga said, adding that a successful Bangsamoro government will "certainly bolster the bid of MSU for world-class status."
After the graduation ceremonies, MSU president Macapado A. Muslim told Lingga that MSU is organizing a national academic conference next month that will focus on what should be done to make the CAB work.
"The CAB is a superb peace formula to resolve the Mindanao conflict,” Muslim said.
==Army, PNP support Maguindanao reforestation project of 2 fraternities==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=8&rid=636067
*Thursday, April 17, 2014
:(PNA), FPV/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY, April 17 (PNA) -- Military and police authorities in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have vowed to support a common environmental project of two fraternities in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-ARMM), officials said Thursday.
Members of Alpha Sigma Phi (Alphans) and the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) and DENR-ARMM have jointly launched a project aimed at protecting a critical watershed area in the southwest of Maguindanao.
Environmentalist Army Colonel Noli Orense, chief of the Army’s 603rd Brigade, said his unit is ready to cooperated with DENR-ARMM and two fraternities organization in preserving and reforestation of the denuded areas at the mountain ranges in the borders of Datu Odin Sinsuat and North Upi towns.
Secretary Kahal Kedtag of DENR-ARMM, said Alphans and APO have signed a memorandum of agreement with his office for the joint project to preserve the watershed area.
The area is where the Cotabato City Water District gets water for city residents and the towns of Datu Odin Sinsuat and Sultan Kudarat.
The MOA was signed by Kedtag, Alladin Sumael of Alphans and Maguindanao provincial board Russman Sinsuat Jr of APO.
Kedtag said he was certain the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will help push the initiative "because everybody benefits from it."
"Since the idea is noble, I don't think anyone would oppose it," he added.
Chief Supt. Noel Delos Reyes, ARMM police regional director, said all police units in his area of command were strictly under instructions to provide support for all environmental protection program of any group or individuals.
"Police Kalikasan" is very active in the ARMM, he said. "Police Kalikasan" is a program initiated by PNP national office to let policemen help preserve the environment in their areas of assignment.
This includes surveillance and prevention of cutting of trees by poachers and illegal loggers.
==44 scholars complete TESDA training under Sajahatra Bangsamoro Program==
*Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=1521397626155
*Wednesday, April 16, 2014
:By Apipa P. Bagumbaran (APB/PIA-10)
MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, April 16 (PIA) --- A total of 44 scholars in the province have completed skills training offered by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) under the Sajahatra Bangsamoro Program.
Datu Omar Shariff Jaafar, executive director of TESDA in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), said the 44 graduates undertook programs in baking and pastry, dressmaking, electrical installation and maintenance, computer hardware servicing and automotive servicing.
“The graduates will also be given toolkits that will pave the way for them to become gainfully employed or self-employed, if they choose to do so,” he said.
The 44 graduates received their certificates of completion in a graduation ceremony held Monday, April 14, at TESDA training center, this city.
Bangsamoro Development Authority (BDA) Ranao Regional Coordinator Aleem Khair Hanafi, TESDA Deputy Director General Irene Isaac, TESDA-ARMM Executive Director Jaafar, and Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) Director Arvin Chua attended the graduation rites.
Aleem Hanafi said the graduation ceremony is a realization of the program that signifies the desire of President Benigno Aquino III and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim to immediately deliver quick-impact projects to conflict-affected communities to reinforce confidence in the GPH-MILF peace process.
Sajahatra Bangsamoro which means “Peace Bangsamoro” is a development program intended to uplift the health, education and livelihood conditions of priorirty Bangsamoro communities and targeted individual beneficiaries through quick-gestation, high-impact and social protection-type programs and services.
It is jointly implemented by the government and the MILF through the Task Force on Bangsamoro Development and Task Force Sajahatra, respectively.
For her part, TESDA Deputy Director Isaac congratulated the graduates and stressed that peace is not only laying down of arms and stopping the armed struggles but also in terms of economic activities. “And so, we offered the training program to provide Bangsamoro communities livelihood opportunities,” she added.
OPAPP Director Chua also extended his greetings to the graduates for completing the training program.
He reiterated that Sajahatra Bangsamoro program is a clear manifestation of the sincerity of the government and the MILF to fulfil the promise of peace and prosperity in the Bangsamoro communities.
Aside from TESDA, Chua said they also partnered with other government agencies to deliver the promise of peace and development in the Bangsamoro.
The agencies involved in the implementation of the Sajahatra program are Department of Health, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Education, Commission on Higher Education, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
==ARMM relief agency sends aid to displaced families in Basilan==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=635468
*Tuesday, April 15, 2014
:(PAN), LAM/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY, April 15 (PNA) -- The Humanitarian Emergency and Action Response Team (HEART) of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (HEART-ARMM) has dispatched a 10-man team for a relief mission in Tipo-tipo, Basilan following recent skirmishes between government forces and members of the rebel Abu Sayyaf group.
“We’re sending off 400 food packs in aid for 264 families as validated by our volunteers from the area,” Ramil Masukat, head, regional disaster risk reduction management office, said in a statement released by ARMM Bureau of Public Information.
Following government encounter with the lawless group suspected of kidnapping and attacks against government forces in Basilan's interior villages, civilians from villages of Silangkong and Baguindan fled for safety, taking refuge with relatives in neighboring barangays.
The 2-day relief mission was to provide immediate assistance over a number of house-based evacuees affected with the recent constraints.
The team, consisting of personnel from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Health (DOH), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the ARMM-HEART operation center, had distributed the relief food Tuesday.
Masukat said the food packs, consisting of basic commodities such are five kilos of rice, canned goods, and other food stuff is expected to supplement family provisions while volatile situation is still closely monitored in the area.
“We are to ensure food and health situation of the evacuees will be given preferential attention, with the mandate of the ARMM-HEART, we see to it that we are always prepared to respond to situations such as this,” Masukat said.
HEART-ARMM was organized by Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman to respond to victims of natural and man-made calamities which is very common in the ARMM.
The region is composed of the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, which is the country's poorest.
==DepEd-ARMM implements new program for special students==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=634980
*Monday, April 14, 2014
:(PNA), FPV/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY, April 14 (PNA) – The education department of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao continues to improve the education programs as it prepares for transition from current regional government set-up to the new Bangsamoro government.
Jamar Kulayan, regional secretary of Department of Education (DepEd-ARMM), the program aims to improve literary among public school students in the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.
DepEd-ARMM aims to establish special education centers in Maguidanao, Lanao del Sur and Basilan as part of its improved literacy program.
Currently, DepEd-ARMM has only two special education centers found in Jolo town in Sulu and in Bongao in the island of Tawi-Tawi.
To start the project, Kulayan signed over the weekend an order activating special education program and to ensure that special schools are available in the region, the country’s poorest.
Convinced that education should be given to all, regardless of political, economic and status in life of Filipinos, Kulayan said the program will specifically cater to Moro pupils with special needs or physical disabilities.
”This is mainstreaming and integration into society and would include profiling and mapping of differently-able, school-aged children, establishment of special education centers, identification and training of qualified teachers and trainers, provision of support system, regular monitoring and evaluation,” Kulayan said in a statement.
”We would like to prepare the department for the new Bansamoro government expected to come by 2016,” he added.
He said the program is in close coordination with the DepEd central office and in line with the national government’s policy of “matuwid na daan.”
Kulayan said his aim is to establish one education center per schools division and directed all school divisions to identify possible sites where the special schools may be established and to coordinate with the local office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development for initial listing and hiring of prospective teachers for specialized training.
The DepEd regional secretary said the ARMM education program, since Gov. Mujiv Hataman assumed office in late 2012, have special programs but were not as extensive as the new program.
==TACE approach tapped to boost teachers’ competency in ARMM==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=634821
*Sunday, April 13, 2014
:By Noel Y. Punzalan [(PNA), CTB/NYP/]
COTABATO CITY, April 13 (PNA) - - The Department of Education-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DepEd-ARMM) is banking on a fresh approach called Teachers Assessment and Competency Exam (TACE) to evaluate teaching proficiency and boost quality education in the region.
In a method to assess teaching applicants, the process requires aspirants to undergo competency examinations, panel interviews and teaching demonstrations.
John Magno, DepEd-ARMM assistant secretary for operations, said this mechanism would ascertain that quality teachers would be hired for a regionally competitive ARMM.
Aside from passing the teacher's licensure examination, new applicants will be ranked based on their TACE results.
To date, DepEd-ARMM has conducted a series of competency exams to nearly 500 teacher applicants from the provinces of Basilan, Maguindanao and Tawi-Tawi.
Commencing with 35 examinees in Lamitan, Basilan, a massive turnout of 121 teaching aspirants in Tawi-Tawi last March 1, the bulk of applicants came from Maguindanao 1 and 2 schools division with 142 each who took the exam recently.
“We are yet to finalize the schedule for Sulu which will definitely be conducted in Zamboanga City this May," Mubarak Pandi, DepEd regional information officer, said.
“This is a ‘no pass or fail’ test, but a method to rank our teacher-applicants as to how they fare with the assessment results, TACE will serve as an equal opportunity for all applicant to cut away the ill practice of ‘palakasan," he added.
Magno reiterated the essence of quality education, citing that to be at par with other regions the DepEd-ARMM would ensure quality teaching by starting with the proficiency of ARMM educators.
==ARMM takes new approach to rate teachers, improve competence==
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=634721
*Saturday, April 12, 2014
:(PNA), JBP/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY, April 12 (PNA) -- The education department of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has taken new approach to improve teachers' proficiency and boost quality education in the region.
A new approach, dubbed as Teachers Assessment and Competency Examination (TACE) has been used by the Department of Education in the ARMM (DepEd-ARMM) to measure competency of some 3,000 teachers in the autonomous region to make them competitive and at par with other teachers in Mindanao.
A method to assess teaching applicants, the process requires aspirants to undergo competency examinations, panel interviews and a teaching demonstrations.
Dr. John Magno, DepEd-ARMM assistant secretary for operations, said this mechanism would ascertain quality teachers will be hired for a regionally competitive ARMM.
Aside from passing the teachers licensure examination, new applicants will be ranked based on their TACE results, Magno said.
The education department has already conducted series of competency exams to almost 500 teacher applicants from the provinces of Basilan, Maguindanao 1 & 2, and Tawi-Tawi.
Commencing with 35 examinees in Lamitan, Basilan, a massive turn-out of 121 teaching aspirants in Tawi-Tawi last March 1, the bulk of applicants came from Maguindanao I and II with 142 each who took the exam conducted recently.
“We are yet to finalize the schedule for Sulu which will definitely be conducted in Zamboanga City this May," Mubarak Pandi, DepEd-ARMM regional information officer, said.
“This is a ‘no-pass or no-fail’ test, but a method to rank our teacher-applicants as to how they fair with the assessment results, TACE will serve as an equal opportunity for all applicant to cut away the ill practice of ‘palakasan'," he added.
For his part, Magno reiterated the essence of quality education, a thrust in line with the reform agenda of the current regional administration.
“We would like to be at par with other region, we are in the right track and we would like to ensure quality education and we are starting with the proficiency of our educators in ARMM," he said.
Magno said the DepEd would like to prepare the department at its competitive level ahead of the coming of the new Bangsamoro government in 2016.
==ARMM, DSWD to launch P150M anti-poverty program==
*Source:http://www.solarnews.ph/news/regional/2014/04/11/armm-dswd-to-launch-p150m-anti-poverty-program#.U0fy6qJLl4g
*Friday, April 11, 2014
:With a report from Cheng Ordonez (Solar News)
To strengthen the foundation of the incoming Bangsamoro government, the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has set aside P150 million for various projects in the region.
Lawyer Laisa Alamia, ARMM executive secretary, told Mindanao reporters that the project is part of the transition mechanism from the current ARMM government to the incoming Bangsamoro government by 2016.
Dubbed as ARMM Bangsamoro Regional Inclusive Sustainable Development with Growth Equity (ARMM-BRIDGE), the program aims to implement development projects in selected pilot areas in the region to address poverty and help Bangsamoro people improve living conditions ahead of the coming of the new political entity.
Alamia said the P150M budget is for this year alone. It will become P1.2 billion once the new government assumes leadership.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will be the lead agency in the implementation of ARMM-BRIDGE, backed by other concerned government agencies.
To ensure success of the project, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank will conduct capacity training workshop for stakeholders after the Holy Week celebration.
==ARMM, UN agency launch corn farming project==
==ARMM, UN agency launch corn farming project==
*Source:http://www.philstar.com/nation/2014/04/10/1311039/armm-un-agency-launch-corn-farming-project
*Source:http://www.philstar.com/nation/2014/04/10/1311039/armm-un-agency-launch-corn-farming-project
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