COTABATO CITY — The Bangsamoro government launched the Regional Plan of Action for Children (RPAC), a framework for more comprehensive child welfare programs in areas devastated by decades of secessionist strife, in a symbolic rite on Monday.
Minister Raissa H. Jajurie told reporters then that the RPAC provides social workers in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and cooperating communities with adequate child welfare and rights protection insights as guides in intensifying programs for children across the autonomous region.
Ms. Jajurie officiated the launch alongside officials of the Ministry of Social Services and Development in BARMM on Monday, which also fell on the celebration of the National Children’s Month.
BARMM covers three cities and five provinces, where several towns have just started reeling off from poverty and underdevelopment caused by a drawn-out Moro uprising for self-governance that waned only after the national government had forged separate peace compacts with the Moro National Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Bangsamoro Labor Minister Muslimin G. Sema, as well as officials of non-government humanitarian entities and the International Labour Organization, said on Tuesday that they will support the implementation of the RPAC. — John Felix M. Unson