COTABATO CITY - At least 596 war-affected barangays (villages) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are eyed as beneficiaries of a $30 million fund approved by the World Bank (WB) to bankroll a three-year extension of the ARMM Social Fund Project (ASFP) efforts.
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In a press briefing here, ASFP Project Manager Nasser Sinarimbo urged for public cooperation in their project implementation areas, saying the national government and WB have earmarked the new financial package for ARMM alone this time.
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"The fund is a loan and all Filipinos are supposed to pay it back. We have to see to it that every penny of it is spent religiously in response to the trust the World Bank and the national government endows us," Sinarimbo said.
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The WB additional financing, which is about P1.41 billion, will "help boost the parallel efforts of the regional and national governments to develop the ARMM communities affected by conflict," ASFP Information Specialist Irene Fernandez said.
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It will run for three years with two components - the community development assistance (CDA), and the institutional strengthening and governance (ISG), she said.
"The ASFP is adopting the community demand-driven (CDD) approach in its implementation of WB-funded projects in ARMM areas such as the 596 more barangays identified as beneficiaries," Fernandez added.
Foreign institutions including the WB have been assisting the ASFP, and as of December 2009, the CDA component has completed about 1,661 community-based infrastructure subprojects out of 1,723 target units.
The CDA component has turned over 1,370 subprojects to proponent local government units - village and municipal levels - and line agencies ARMM, it was learned.
The ASFP, under its strategic regional infrastructure (SRI) component, has completed 13 subprojects, which included Information and Communication Technology (ICT) community research centers for district hospitals and ports in the five ARMM component provinces, Fernandez said.
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The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) also assists the ASFP, through which it has completed three of seven SRI projects that are slated for turnover to recipient hospitals in the ARMM, she said
