QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 101)
The Executive Order cites Executive Order No. 125 (s. 1993), as amended by Executive Order No. 03 (s. 2001), as the mandate for the comprehensive peace process.
The peace process should be community-based, reflecting Filipinos’ sentiments, values, and principles as defined by them as one community.
Peace zones are geographical areas declared off-limits to war and other forms of armed hostility by residents categorized as civilian victims of internal armed conflicts.
To sustain peace and uplift residents’ socio-economic well-being through immediate and aggressive implementation of development projects and effective delivery of basic social services.
Barangay Bantayan, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, and Barangay Baras Dacu, Mabinay, Negros Oriental.
That the Baras Peace Zone in the identified barangays/cities is hereby declared as a Special Development Area.
P7,200,000.00 is released from the President’s Social Fund.
The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process.
The special integrated area development program of the Baras Peace Zone.
To coordinate with concerned national agencies and LGUs to ensure needs are adequately addressed, and to guide and assist in full implementation of the development projects.
It was signed by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as President of the Republic of the Philippines; Alberto G. Romulo signed as Executive Secretary.
It links sustaining peace with uplifting socio-economic well-being by requiring immediate and aggressive development projects to ensure effective delivery of basic social services.
It identifies residents as civilian victims of internal armed conflicts who are categorized as civilians and who declare the area off-limits to armed hostility.
They are intended to address economic, social, and psychological rehabilitation needs of former rebels, demobilized combatants, and civilian victims of internal conflicts.
It provides factual justification for the declaration and funding by showing local demand for assistance and a goal of becoming a progressive farming community in a sustained peaceful environment.
It designates the area as a Special Development Area for the purpose of implementing an integrated development program supported by the released grant.
The Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process must coordinate with both national government agencies and LGUs to ensure the area’s needs are adequately addressed.