Ambassador Makoto Katsura witnessed the signing of the Project Document and delivered a message during the Project Launch of the “Inter-Agency Programme to Nurture Peace, Security and Decent Work through Local Development in Conflict Areas of the Philippines (Bondoc Peninsula)” on April 8, 2010 at the ILO Head Office in Manila.
This project, spanning three years from March 2010 to February 2013 and amounting to US$ 2,563,395.30, was funded by the Government of Japan through the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security.
It will be implemented by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in cooperation with the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), local government units, local NGOs, and related government line agencies.
Activities will include enhancing livelihood assets of at least 3,500 people, improving access to better income opportunities for at least 2,500 people, empowering at least 2,000 people through entrepreneurial skills development training, promoting social protection schemes, and improving access of at least 2,000 women and children to maternal and child care services.
It is an important challenge to extend development assistance to areas fraught with social unrest and armed conflict such as the Bondoc Peninsula. This project aims to address such issues by addressing poverty, underdevelopment, and conflict through a multi-faceted and integrated approach. This project is expected to promote the human security of disadvantaged people in the Bondoc Peninsula.
Speech of Ambassador Makoto Katsura
Japanese Version
