Revised Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) Mindanao Trust Fund-Reconstruction and Development Project Phase III (P174480)

The context for the design of the Project, hereinafter RDP/2, was the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) signed by the GPH and the MILF in October 2012, specifically the Socio- Economic Development Programme of the Annex on Normalization signed in January 2014, and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) signed in March 2014. [...] The growing demand at the community level for the concrete benefits of peace, which is critical to the successful conclusion of the GPH-MILF peace process, combined with the emergence of violent extremism and, even more significantly, the COVID-19 crisis, call for the early launch and rapid implementation of an expanded MTF intervention, specifically, a third Reconstruction and Development Project [...] Page 2 of 15 The Project comprises the following three components: Community Development Assistance: The purpose of community development assistance financed through the RDP/3 is to rapidly improve the quality of life, reduce the risks associated with COVID-19 as well as other disasters, and promote social cohesion in the selected communities in the six MILF camps, including those comprising Musli [...] Linkages will be established by the BDA and CFSI with select ministries of the BARMM Government and formalized with the aim of ensuring general consistency with the directions of the Bangsamoro Development Plan (BDP), obtaining technical assistance and relevant inputs, fostering synergies with other relevant development initiatives, and promoting the mainstreaming of the key principles and process [...] This will include assistance for specialized staff and operations, the procurement of required goods, and financing of incremental operating costs for CFSI, as the TFR, to execute and monitor the RDP/3, as well as for the communication and dissemination of information on the project objectives, strategies, and lessons learned.