[{"bbox": [96, 129, 1150, 264], "category": "Text", "text": "youth and IP groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) at large. In addition, NGOs, CSOs and community-based organisations (CBOs) will have a significant role in improving civic engagement, including increasing all citizen's knowledge and capacity to demand transparency and accountability from LGUs. Furthermore, it is expected that CSOs will participate in public policy formulation including, for example, government programmes, strategies and legislations at national and sub-national levels."}, {"bbox": [96, 277, 1150, 358], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Priority 2: Normalisation/Implementation of Peace Agreement: Consolidate peace gains by addressing gaps in the implementation of the Normalisation Track of the peace process and complete commitments in the signed peace agreement.**"}, {"bbox": [96, 358, 1150, 1021], "category": "Text", "text": "Normalisation is an essential part of the signed peace agreement between the GPH and the MILF. It includes a range of components including, for example, the decommissioning of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) and the provision of community-based socio-economic programmes to the 40,000 ex-combatants including the women auxiliary forces; the transformation of six identified MILF camps into peaceful and productive communities; the redeployment of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP); the employment and deployment of the Philippine National Police (PNP), and other security arrangements and guarantees including the reduction and management of small arms and light weapons (SALWs) and the disbanding of Private Armed Groups (PAGs). Additional areas covered by the Normalization Track include socio-economic support to IDPs and conflict-effected and poverty-stricken communities; UXO detection and clearance and risk education; transitional justice and reconciliation; and confidence-building measures including amnesty, pardon and other available processes towards the resolution of cases of persons charged with or convicted of crimes and offenses connected to the armed conflict in Mindanao.⁴ Many of these components will remain incomplete well beyond the transition period and the 2025 elections. The slow, male-dominated and disjointed implementation of the normalization process has resulted in frustration, unmet expectations and growing socio-economic needs of 40,000 male and female ex-combatants, their families, and communities. Beyond the ex-combatants, most of the population including conflict-effected communities, IDPs, IP, women, youth, and other vulnerable groups are not experiencing significant positive changes in their lives in relation to their expectations. Therefore, it is vital to continue working with the joint peace implementing panels to maintain confidence, deliver on the peace dividends and address urgent gaps in the normalization process. Ensuring that the promises made in the peace agreement are kept is also essential for building trust between the signatories (GPH and MILF). In addition, land disputes and accusations of land grabbing and land dispossession are a source of instability. Participation of women in the normalization process is also limited, and women and girls continue to suffer from inequalities and they remain vulnerable to exploitation and gender-based violence (GBV). Given the fragile operating context where lawlessness, insecurity and a culture of political violence prevail, supporting the implementation of the normalization process is essential for ensuring that frustrations do not spill over and disrupt the peace process."}, {"bbox": [96, 1022, 1150, 1553], "category": "Text", "text": "Key stakeholders include communities throughout BARMM and in relevant areas of influence of the MILF acknowledged camps; OPAPRU; the GPH and MILF Peace Implementing Panels; Inter-Government Relations Body (IGRB) and the various peace process mechanisms and the government agencies therein involved in the implementation of the peace process, CSOs, women and IP leaders, the sectoral ministries in the BARMM including the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Agrarian Reform; Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism; Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (among others the roll-out of the Comprehensive Sexuality Education Curriculum); Ministry of Public Order and Safety; Ministry of Local Government; Peace, Reconciliation and Security Office (PRSO); LGUs; National Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG); the Joint Peace and Security Committee (JPSC), the Joint Peace and Security Teams (JPSTs) the Bangsamoro Women Commission, the Bangsamoro Youth Commission, the Ministry of IP Affairs and other actors that may be involved in community policing and security provision at the local level in targeted locations and the Ministry of Interior and Local Government (MILG). Given that some ex-combatants and conflict-effected populations are residing outside of the BARMM in other parts of Mindanao, it will be important to ensure coordination between the BPDA and the MinDA as needed. For marginalised and vulnerable populations, including women and girls, the Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) and the Ministry of Health are essential to the health and survival of the ex-combatants and their families. For example, under the normalization process, the male and female decommissioned combatants are supposed to be assigned social workers to help them navigate the system of support, from birth registration to livelihood support. Currently, the national Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is providing the social workers, but eventually the MSSD will need to step in. Also, the Ministry of Health has a prominent role in ensuring the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women, as guaranteed by the Responsible Parenthood"}, {"bbox": [85, 1589, 787, 1615], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴ Annex on Normalization in the Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro (CAB)"}, {"bbox": [994, 1637, 1100, 1661], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 7 of 28"}]