but it will be activated only for preparing the IHL month.
The lead agency would be PHRC working closely with
PRC
and ICRC They are the heads of organizers. DSWD,
health officers) to help, because the armed conflict
takes place in the community, so lets make use of
what we have in the locality.
OPAP DFA, DND and all that will be included later as
part of the aqency and later D0LE will be included for
Three. Empower LCUs and NCAs to respond
the livelihood asped together with the
to conflict and build capacity of LCUs to provide
huma nitarian intervention.
CSOs.
Two.
Post Traumatic Stress Management for
Service Men and Women
Effective mechanism on how to provide humanitarian
seruices in partnership with local government agencies,
In
what CSOs or
those local risk reduction management committees.
government agencies do is give psychosocial healing
The mapping of services, these are for NCAs, services
to the victims of armed conflicL but we sometimes
women. This involves policy interuention within the
that are provided from different NGAs so we could
know what services are being provided and what
other agencies can provide so there will be no more
AFP and the PNP for capacity building of soldiers or
overlapping. Those NCAs will conduct internal capacity
police officers to do the counseling. Because what
they do is just initial debriefing, but the debriefing may
buildlng supported by an IHL national committee. We
did not get the exact name of the law but the RA
not be enough because the trauma may be deeper.
which says that manmade disasters are included in
humanitarian interuention
neglect service people, combatants, military men and
the disasters that the RRMC responds to.
of DSWD and DOH for
psychosocial healing, not only for the victims but
To strengthen the program
also the family members and the community as well.
ldentified lssues
DOH also suggested capacity building at LGUs (local
Capacity building forthe PNPto take full responsibility
for the country's internal security and for the AFP to
deal with external threats.
How to sustain and intensi! livelihood efforts in
areas of armed conflict via DSWD and DOLE.
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How to strengthen NCIPs capacity to deal with
lP
concerns beyond monitori ng.
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to
ensure that the CRP and NDF uphold
humanitarian interuention in times of disasters.
How
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Review of the anti-torture law
to include
non-state
actors since excluding them encourages impunity.
Clarification of the mechanism for transitional justice.
Comment{Usee [\ono
We have advocates moving heaven and earth to
have the IHL component within the PHRC. But we
had to sidestep primarily because of the sensitive
issues involved and we did not have clear solutions.
What we can do for now, with such a proposal
coming from this body, is we will try to see how we
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2012
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