EU, Germany launch P1-B peace, dev’t project in Mindanao
The European Union (EU) and the German government launched a four-year project with a total budget of 18 million euros (approximately PHP1 billion) to support Mindanao’s peace and development agenda. The program, called “Strengthening the Implementation of Regional and Local Peace and Development Agendas in Mindanao (SPADe)”, seeks to promote a peaceful, cohesive, secure, and “inclusively developed Mindanao.”
fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, internally displaced persons, women, and the youth. “This new project is consistent with our EU vision, which calls for an integrated approach to conflicts, supports state and societal resilience, addresses extreme poverty, inequality, and chronic fragility,” EU Ambassador Luc Véron said. German Ambassador to the Philippines Anke Reiffenstuel said this reflects Germany’s commitment to contributing to the peacebuilding process in the region.
The EU Delegation on Friday said special attention would be given to vulnerable and marginalized groups, such SPADe will be as smallholder farmers, implemented by the
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Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German government, from 2021 to June 2025 in select areas in the region. The project is under the EU’s Mindanao Peace and Development Programme (MinPAD RISE) and co-funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. “With the GIZ project, the German development cooperation complements the EU-funded MinPAD RISE Programme and Caraga INFOCUS
