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Inclusivity, whole-of-government approach among the positive features of GPH-MILF peace process, says Deles
Posted on Friday, 12 April, 2013 - 17:11
Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Quintos
Deles on Thursday underscored inclusivity and whole-of-government
approach as among the positive characteristics of the peace process
between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF).
“We on the side of the government assure that there would be not only gender representation but also intergeneration and other representation (in the peace process),” she said in her speech during the Second Conference on Mediation held recently in Istanbul.
“We on the side of the government assure that there would be not only gender representation but also intergeneration and other representation (in the peace process),” she said in her speech during the Second Conference on Mediation held recently in Istanbul.
The peace adviser said that the Philippine government ensures gender,
ethnic and generational balance particularly in the newly-formed
Transition Commission which has been mandated to draft the Bangsamoro
Basic Law that will pave the way for the establishment of the new
Bangsamoro region.
Women’s involvement
On women’s involvement in the peace process, Deles related the
“unprecedented levels of women’s participation that is in fact happening
in the Philippines’ peace process.”
“For the first time, the government panel is headed by a woman when
the original panel chair was appointed to the Supreme Court. There are
two women out of the five members of the government panel. The head of
the legal panel and the head of the secretariat are women, all fall
under the age of 35,” stated Deles who was the only woman panelist in
the conference.
"It has been remarked to me by several women that it looks like I’m the only woman in this whole forum that is speaking."
“Out of the four technical working groups that worked on the annexes,
three are women and increasingly, there have been women also now with
the MILF and in the Transition Commission,” she added.
She also said that the GPH-MILF Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro
(FAB), which both parties signed last October 2012, adopts a
gender-sensitive approach.
“It actually has a very exclusive provision for women’s political
rights in the Bangsamoro and it identifies women’s rights as well as
those of children, and that is placed in any post conflict development
program,” she stated. “Women’s voices need to be heard.”
Work of entire gov’t
Deles said that the four annexes which, together with the FAB, form
part of the yet to be signed comprehensive agreement, “is actually a
work of the entire government.”
The annexes on normalization, power-sharing, and wealth-sharing are
in the process of completion by the GPH and the MILF peace panels who
recently met in Kuala Lumpur to resume discussions on remaining
unresolved issues. The annex on transitional arrangements and modalities
has already been signed by the parties last February.
Deles related that various government agencies have been involved in
the crafting of the annexes “because the President wants to make sure
that anything that we commit in the annexation is going to be supported
by everyone in the government.”
“The point is that when we actually commit to something, we know that
it is something that is going to be delivered and that the whole of
government may be able to stand behind,” she stressed.
Acknowledging the “long road ahead,” Deles said that the government
remains hopeful “as we struggle through completing the annexes and
putting the new bodies in place.”
“The demonstration is there and the parties are committed to the
process and that increasingly more and more of our people are coming
aboard and seeing why in the end, this is something that what we have to
do and it is something that will be good not just for the Bangsamoro,
not just for Mindanao, but also for the entire country.”
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