CONFLICT-AFFECTED VILLAGES. The Negros Oriental Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict has identified seven new barangays in the province to be listed as priority areas for the whole-of-nation approach to ending the insurgency. A series of Dagyawan sa Barangay/Serbisyo Caravan will be held in these villages starting next month. (Photo courtesy of PIA-Negros Oriental) DUMAGUETE CITY - The Negros Oriental Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NOTF-ELCAC) will resume holding the "Dagyawan Sa Barangay: Talakayan sa Mamamayan" and Caravan on Basic Services (Serbisyo Caravan) in seven villages in Negros Oriental tagged as still affected by the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA). Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Provincial Director Farah Diba Gentuya said in an interview with the Philippine News Agency that the Dagyawan/Serbisyo Caravan will bring together all government agencies in a whole-of-nation approach to listen to and address the needs of these barangays. "This is part of government's efforts to sustain programs and projects to alleviate the plight of villagers who are still confronted with the communist insurgency problem and this year, we will be going to the barangays instead of the usual town hall meetings," Gentuya said. During a coordinating meeting of the NOTF-ELCAC here on Friday, member agencies were apprised of the recently included barangays as well as interventions undertaken, such as the Retooled Community Support Program (RCSP) of the DILG. The first of a series of Dagyawan activities will be held on March 14 in Barangay Pula, Canlaon City. The succeeding dialogues and service caravans will be held in the villages of Mantiquil and Apoloy, Siaton town; Nagbalaye, Milagrosa, Nagbinlod, and Talalak in the municipality of Sta. Catalina. Last year and in the previous years, the Dagyawan was held usually in the town's gymnasium but the provincial TF-ELCAC wants to hold it this time right in the insurgency-affected barangay, Gentuya said. The Philippine Army has cleared these new barangays for inclusion in the RCSP, one of the government's mechanisms in the national TF-ELCAC program implementation in conflict-affected areas. Negros Oriental now has a total of 46 barangays listed under the ELCAC program. Gov. Roel Degamo, who chairs the provincial task force, said he will also bring his "MagDegamo" medical mission to complement the Dagyawan and Serbisyo Caravan activities. (PNA) }
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ANTI-INSURGENCY STRATEGY. This undated photo shows village folks in Bohol province during one of the "Dagyawan sa Barangay" activities of the Regional Task Forces to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC). The DILG-7 on Thursday (March 24, 2022) said the National Peace and Order Council has recognized the successes of the "Dagyawan sa Barangay", which led to adoption and nationwide holding of similar townhall meetings to bring the government closer to the people in insurgency-affected villages. (Photo courtesy of DILG-7) CEBU CITY - The "Dagyawan sa Barangay", a strategy toward ending communist armed conflict by bringing government services closer to the barrio folks, will now be implemented nationwide, the Department of the Interior and Local Government-Central Visayas (DILG-7) said Thursday. Lawyer Leocadio Trovela, DILG-7 regional director, said in a statement the strategy conceptualized in Central Visayas as a way to promote "togetherness" in advocating peace and development down to the village level has been recognized by the National Peace and Order Council (NPOC) during its 1st quarter meeting last March 21. The NPOC issued Resolution No. 7 recognizing the works of the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) chaired by Trovela for being able to engage the people in barangays affected by insurgency. He said the resolution endorses the adoption and nationwide implementation of a series of community town hall forums comparable to the "Dagyawan sa Barangay". The Dagyawan is the branding of the DILG-7 projects under the Retooled Community Support Program (RCSP) with the primary goal of bringing government services right to the doorstep of villagers, especially in far-flung areas. True to its promise to bring town hall meetings to the local level, Trovela collaborated with the officials of Negros Oriental province to launch the first Dagwayan sa Barangay in Dumaguete City in August of 2019. The activity was the localized version of "Dagyaw 2019: Open Government and Participatory Governance Regional Townhall Meeting", a series of government dialogues with the stakeholders at the grassroots level. "This platform serves as a venue for an active engagement between the government and the people at the grassroots level. So we can bring the government closer to the minds and hearts of the people in Region 7," Trovela said. Apart from dialogues and fora, officials from NTF-ELCAC also conducts the "Serbisyo caravan" (service caravan) that provides various services and assistance to village folks. Since 2019, DILG-7 has spearheaded conducts of Dagyawan sa Barangay in the insurgency-affected villages through the Basic Services Cluster chaired by the agency, and with the active participation of the provincial government of Negros Oriental and the Negros Oriental Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NOTF-ELCAC) led by Governor Roel Degamo, who is now the Regional Peace and Order (RPOC) chair. Apart from Dagwayan activities in insurgency-affected villages in Negros Oriental, these townhall-type of listening tool of the government were also conducted in areas in Bohol and Cebu. Meanwhile, the DILG-7 reported that 515 ELCAC-related projects worth PHP5.4 billion were endorsed to the Regional Development Council (RDC), Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC), Regional Task Force 7-ELCAC, National Task Force-ELCAC, and Department of Budget and Management (DBM). Dagyawan sa Barangay is coined from a Hiligyanon term which means "bayanihan" or togetherness.(PNA) }