CONFLICT PREVENTION PROGRAM (CPP) CIVILIAN PROTECTION COMPONENT (CPC) PROGRAM
Consultations During Preparatory Phase • Leaderships of Key Parties and ground commanders. • Civil Society Organizations working for Peace in Mindanao. • Local Government Units. • Focus Group Discussions with Community leaders and Civilians Living in Conflict Prone areas. • International Actors / Groups
Mandate NP P • To enhance the scope and quality of locally based people’s organisations and peace/human rights advocates. • To reduce the incidence of violence in the vicinity of NP field sites through means of unarmed international civilian peacekeeping and thereby aiding in the maintenance of the ceasefire(s). • To support human rights reporting mechanisms in remote conflict areas and assist/connect local and international advocacy groups that work for peace with justice by responding to people’s grievances. • To localise grassroots conflicts so that they are resolved through dialogue at the lowest level and do not snowball into larger crises.
Our approach • To stay in contact and talk to all parties • Cooperation with international organisations and missions and with INGOs • Emergency Response Network • Contacts to countries investing in the peace process • Be known to community and be trusted by them.
NP working principles • Nonviolence: NP representatives will use only nonviolent means and strategies in all circumstances. • Non-partisanship: NP will not take any side in the conflict nor make its services available to one party over another. • Non-interference: NP comes at the invitation of local and national level CSOs, and undertakes activities under their guidance. NP will not undertake to influence outcomes of the conflict except to assure that they are not violent. • Mutual respect: NP strives not to undermine the reputation of any person or group, rather to understand and report causes and needs while opposing violence itself. • Permission: NP seeks goodwill and acceptance from all parties.
Advisory Council and its Role To enhance the levels of accountability, legitimacy, acceptance and involve NP Partners in NP P activities, Advisory Board was Established before officially starting the project • to give advise on plans and strategies • to get feed-back on actual activity • consultative body • to act as a conferential or collegial body • to recommend new issues and areas to cover. • to review activities • to operate on the basis of consensus in giving recommendations • to give mutual moral support
GRP – MNLF Peace Process • Both Parties signed the first Tripoli Agreement in 1976. • Signed the Final Peace Agreement in 1996. • Partial implementation of the FPA and frustrations raised by Mainstream MNLF group led by Misuari. • Division within MNLF. Main stream MNLF and Council of 15 led by Cotabato Mayor. • Tripartitie talks between GRP-factions of MNLF and OIC.
GRP - MILF Peace Process • MILF Officially declared armed struggled in 1984. • GRP & MILF Entered into Peace talks in 1997 and signed the comprehensive Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in 2003. • On August 05, 2008, Peace Talks suspended between GRP & MILF on Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain. • Outbreak of Armed HostilitiesfromAugust 2008. • Ceasefire Mechanism Structures. • SOMO & SOMA. Resumption of Peace Talks • Other key stakeholders like Provincial Governors, Politicians, Illaga(Vigilante groups).
Conflict Prevention Program - CPP Focuses on structures, specifically through: 1) Community Based Human Rights 2) Early Warning Early Response 3) Dialogue
Community Based HR - CPP No. Trained Field Site (March 2009- January 2011) Maguindanao 147 North Cotabato 156 Lanao del Sur 74 Lanao del Norte 63
Early Warning Early Response - CPP Revitalizing pre-existing structures at the community-level and setting up new structures where non-existant, with local partners Field Site No. Trained Local structures engaged/ created or strengthened: (March 2009- January 2011) Maguindanao 153 Barangay Disaster Coordinating Council(s) : in every barangay mandated by law but often latent North Cotabato 212 Early Warning Network (LDS) Lanao del Sur 47 Ranaw Election Watch (LDS) - VHF Radio Monitoring Lanao del Norte 53 MMI Early Warning Network (Maguindanao)
Dialogue -CPP 1) Open Space Forum Talking about “safe and secure communities” Carried out in 4 field sites with over 380 participants (December 2010 - January 2011) 2) Dialogue between religious communities North Lanao del Field Site Maguindanao Lanao del Sur Cotabato Norte No Participants 80 142 22 38 (March 2009- January 2011)
Emerging of the CPC Program • May 2007: NP starts Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping Program in Mindanao • October 2009: GRP and MILF sign an agreement that the mandate of the IMT will be expanded to include the protection of civilians -Civilian Protection Component (CPC) • December 2009: GRP and MILF invited NP as a member of the CPC as the only international organization • July 2010: NP-CPC employment of 7 ICPMs and 6 NCPMs • October 2010: - Launch of the CPC in Cotabato City - NP-CPC employment of additional 9 ICPMs and 6 NCPMs
IMT- CPC Structure International Monitoring Team Humanitarian Socio economic Security Rehabilitation and Civilian Protection assistance Development Moslem Organization of Nonviolent Peaceforce Mindanao Peoples Causas Mindanao Human Rights Government Officials and (NP) (MPC) Action Center (MinHRAC Professionals (MOGOP)
CPC Terms of References CPC - NP „To establish a functioning system and effective mechansism for Monitoring, verifying, and reporting of the compliance and non- compliance of the parties to their commitments under international and national humanitarian laws and human rights laws to take CPC-NP constant care to protect the civilian population and civilian properties against dangers arising in armed confict areas“ To monitor the safety and security of civilian communitites in conflict areas To monitor and ensure that both parties respect the sactity of worship namely mosques, churches and religious places and social institutions including schools, madaris, hospitals and all places of civilian nature To monitor the needs of the IDPs and the delivery of relief and rehabilitation support efforts in conflict affected areas in Mindanao To strengthen ownership of the peace process by supporting and empowering communities to handle conflicts at the grassroot level To monitor acts of violence against civilians in conflict affected areas To strengthen the linkages and information-sharing between IMT and the Peace Penals
Manila Liaison Office - 4 int. staff NP Presence in Mindanao -3 nat. staff -2 consultants Iligan/ Lanao Del Norte -3 int, 3 nat, 1 driver Ipil, Zamboanga- Sibugay Marawi/ Lanao Del Sur Field site to open 2011 Malabang/ Lanao Del 3 int , 3 nat, 1 driver Sur Field site to open 2011 Cotabato Main Office Zamboanga Pikit/ North Cotabato -7 int. staff Field site to open in 5 int, 4 nat., 1 driver -12 nat. staff 2011 Datu Piang/ Maguindanao 5 int., 4 nat., 1 driver Laimitan/ Basilan 1 national General Santos/ South Cotabato, Sarangani Jolo/ Sulu 3 int., 1 nat., 1 driver 1 national
• 105,000-126,000 IDPs (IDMC est. NOV 2010) • 8,290,091 NP indirct beneficiaries (excl. mobile coverage) Lanao Del Norte • 10 NP offices -22 municipalities • NP presence in 16 provinces Lanao Del Sur - 1 city - 506 barangays -39 municipalities (10 permanent, 6 mobile) - 1 city - Population: 538,283 • Quick response team I and II: 8 int. - 681 barangays - Population: staff 1,138,544 Cotabato North Cotabato City -17 municiplities Z- Sibugay -1 city - 1 city - 16 municipalities - 37 barangays - 543 barangays - 389 barangays - Population: - Population: 1,121,974 - Population: 564,186 259,153 Basilan -11 municipalities Maguindanao - 1 city -36 municipalities -210 barangays - Population: 408,520 - 506 barangays South Cotabato - Population: 1,273,715 -10 municipalities - 2 cities - 225 barangays Sulu Z-Del Sur Sarangani - Population: 767,254 -19 municipalities -26 municipalities -7 municipalities - 410 barangays - 1 city - 140 barangays - Population: 849,670 - 681 barangays - Population: 475,514 -- Population: 914,278 (Source: National Statistical Coordination Board, 2007)
Selected achievements: The first six months • NP-CPC undertook 107 monitoring activities in regard to the protection of the civilian population and civilian property in Mindanao • 6 monthly reports about the compliance and non-compliance of the parties (AFP and MILF) to their commitments under international and national humanitarian laws and human rights laws were submitted from NP-CPC to the IMT • NP-CPC field teams verified and reported 75 incidences of violence against civilians in Mindanao to the IMT, whereupon 16 cases were confirmed and 13 election related violence incidences were confirmed • NP-CPC conducted 23 coordination meetings with national CPC members
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