BYC LAUNCHES POSITIVE PEACE PROJECT

August 24, 2022

COTABATO CITY (August 24, 2022)—The Bangsamoro Youth Commission

(BYC) officially launched its Positive Peace Project (3Peace) for young
combatants during the celebration of the International Youth Day (IYD) 2022
on August 24, at SKCC Complex, Bangsamoro Government Center, Cotabato
City.

The project primarily aims to codevelop a flagship program centered on civic

engagement, leadership, management, peace promotion and
entrepreneurship in aid of producing positive reintegration outcomes among
identified vulnerable youth combatants of Moro Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF) and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) across the region.

The youth combatants will be given viable socio–economic opportunities

such as trainings on leadership, technical – vocational skills, and
entrepreneurship that is according to their interest, and yield appropriate
policy actions from policy research at the end of the project.

Former combatants will undergo major identity transformation processes to

become productive and functional civilians in their respective communities
through a series of activities such as disarmament, provision of socio-
economic benefits, confidence-building measures, and camp transformation,
among others.

It will institutionalize a mechanism of youth development recognized by

relevant institutions in Bangsamoro, it comes in four components: needs
assessment, capacity development and cooperative formation, awarding of
seed grants, and evaluation and policy research writing.

Partner agencies in implementing the project will also help in monitoring the
progress of the beneficiaries especially in moving their own cooperative
business and transformation of their lives even after the timeframe of the
project.

The initiative was primarily implemented through a series of visitations to

the identified six major camps and island-based camps of the MILF and
MNLF across the region.

3Peace will be the flagship program of the BYC in empowering the ex-rebels
ensuring the mitigation of issues that impede their meaningful reintegration,
lessening tendencies of re-/recruitment to extremist groups, and relapse of
violent behaviors.

The program will help the commission in crafting policies that seek to protect
their rights and welfare, and ensure their functionality in the society.

It is part of BYC’s Special Development Fund for 2021. (BYC PR UNIT/AAA)

SOURCE:
Bangsamoro Youth Commission. 2022, August 24. BYC Launches Positive
Peace Project. Retrieved from
https://byc.bangsamoro.gov.ph/2022/08/24/news/byc-launches-
positive-peace-project/