| (1) | The objective of this Support Package is to provide sustained support, from the medium- to longer-term viewpoints, to contribute toward the escape from extreme poverty and the consolidation for peace in the region of Mindanao. |
| (2) | Particular emphasis is placed on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), a region seriously affected by local strife, and thereby its development been delayed substantially. |
| (1) | Support for policy formulation and implementation (targeted at the ARMM government)
(Formulation and implementation of development plans, improvement of administrative capabilities, etc. These would include the dispatch of policy advisers, training programs, and the support through trainees who have returned home from training activities in Japan.) |
| (2) | Support for improvement of basic human needs
(Health and medical care, agriculture and rural development, and basic infrastructure development) |
| (3) | Support which contributes directly toward peace-building and the fight against terrorism
(Development of human resources related to anti-terrorist activities, capacity building of police forces, etc.) |
| 3. Specific Cooperation Projects |
| (1) | A project formulation study team will be dispatched to design concrete projects. |
| (2) | Preceding the dispatch of the above team, the following cooperation projects, amounting to about \4 billion in all, were newly announced. As a result, Japan's total support of about \44 billion is now to be planned to the Mindanao region, including those of yen loans already committed.
| 1) | Loan aid for the "Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Social Fund for Peace and Development" (\2.47 billion) aimed at the support for community development and construction of local infrastructure in ARMM. |
| 2) | Sector program grant aid (\1.5 billion; E/N signature finished this time) contributing to peace-building and socio-economic development in the Mindanao region, centered on ARMM. |
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| (3) | About \40 billion are to be disbursed for the following and other yen loan projects for the Mindanao region, which are already announced.
| 1) | "Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway Mindanao Section Rehabilitation Project (I and II)"
| | 2) | "Mindanao Container Terminal Project"
| | 3) | "Lower Agusan Development Project (Flood Control Component - Phase II)" |
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