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P21.6M disbursed for profiling of MNLF members – OPAPRU

Published Jun 29, 2025 12:02 pm
OPAPRU Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. (facing backwards, center stage) leads the distribution of cash assistance and rice to members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) during the first day of their profiling in a ceremony in Patikul, Sulu on June 24, 2025. (Photo: OPAPRU)
OPAPRU Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. (facing backwards, center stage) leads the distribution of cash assistance and rice to members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) during the first day of their profiling in a ceremony in Patikul, Sulu on June 24, 2025. (Photo: OPAPRU)
To kickstart their transition, 650 members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) have undergone profiling to become eligible for socio-economic support through the Transformation Program jointly implemented by the national government and the MNLF.
The first batch, composed of 480 MNLF members from Sulu, underwent a five-day socio-economic profiling process that ended Saturday, June 28, where they each received P45,000 Transitional Cash Assistance and rice. The total cash aid disbursed amounted to P21.6 million.
From the group, 537 firearms were also documented. The OPAPRU said that the process of firearms documentation is the first step to qualify for the Transformation Program.
“The government, through the OPAPRU and MNLF, shares a common vision, and that is, to uplift the lives of our MNLF brothers and sisters, and bring long-lasting peace and sustainable development within the MNLF communities and across the Bangsamoro and Mindanao,” OPAPRU Sec. Carlito Galvez Jr. said.
Meanwhile, the OPAPRU is finalizing details for the profiling of the remaining 170 MNLF members within this year.
Galvez reaffirmed the Marcos administration’s commitment to work with the MNLF leadership to bring about the complete transformation of combatants, their families, and communities.
The OPAPRU said P373 million would be earmarked for 2026 to support various road, livelihood, electrification, water system, and housing projects for MNLF communities, tripling the P130 million allocated in 2024 and P122.1 million in 2025.
The socio-economic projects will be implemented under the Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan or PAMANA, a flagship program of the OPAPRU.
The MNLF Transformation Program was launched in September 2023 in Basilan as an initiative under the 1996 Final Peace Agreement between the Government of the Philippines and the MNLF. It aims to help uplift the lives of the MNLF combatants, their communities, and their families and aid them to become productive, empowered, and self-reliant individuals.
“Sa pamamagitan ng mga prosesong ito, kumukuha tayo ng datos ukol sa bawat combatant, kanilang mga pamilya at kominidad na siyang gagamitin natin sa pagbibigay ng angkop na mga proyekto at iba pang tulong para sa kanila (Through these processes, we are gathering data on each combatant, their families, and communities, which we will use to provide appropriate projects and other forms of assistance for them),” Galvez explained.
The Transformation Program has four major components: security, socioeconomic, confidence-building, and community healing and reconciliation.
Under the socio-economic component, the profiled combatants shall receive transitional cash assistance worth P45,000 from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD),  rice provision from the National Food Authority and the OPAPRU, health insurance from PhilHealth, and civil registration assistance from the Philippine Statistics Authority.

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