Iloilo targets 2028 completion of 19 ELCAC projects
By Mariela Angella Oladive
By Mariela Angella Oladive
The Iloilo provincial government has committed to completing all 19 remaining infrastructure projects under the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) by the end of 2028.
Provincial Administrator Raul Banias announced the target during the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict second-quarter full council meeting.
Banias reported that 141 of the province’s 165 NTF-ELCAC-funded community development projects have been completed.
The completed projects are valued at about PHP 154 million.
In 2022, 69 projects remained incomplete.
Of the original 165 projects, 19 remain unfinished, while five were not implemented.
Banias said the provincial government would complete the remaining projects using provincial funds despite having returned PHP 196 million in unutilized Local Government Support Fund-NTF-ELCAC allocations to the National Treasury.
The projects include road improvements, water supply systems, rural electrification, school facilities, and other community infrastructure designed to improve access to basic services, strengthen local livelihoods, and support peace and development initiatives in geographically isolated communities.
The NTF-ELCAC was created under Executive Order No. 70, which institutionalized the government’s whole-of-nation approach to attaining inclusive and sustainable peace.
Its Barangay Development Program is intended to bring infrastructure and basic services, including roads, classrooms, water and sanitation systems, health facilities, and livelihood support, to conflict-affected and geographically isolated communities.
The council meeting also highlighted Iloilo’s recent two-day Inter-Agency Territorial Defense Simulation Exercise, which brought together the Philippine Army, Philippine National Police, Office of Civil Defense, local government units, and other partner agencies.
The exercise aimed to strengthen disaster preparedness and interagency coordination.
Meanwhile, Regional Prosecutor Flosemer Gonzales presented the first-semester accomplishments of member agencies.
Gonzales highlighted the implementation of the government’s whole-of-nation approach under Executive Order No. 70 through coordinated efforts among national government agencies, local government units, and security forces.
The meeting was presided over by Department of Environment and Natural Resources Undersecretary Jonas Leones.
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