PHP15,000
worth of immediate assistance
Support
to relocate and secure their family
Support
for temporary shelter
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Modified
Conditional Cash Transfer
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Business Plan
per individual
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PHP21,000
to defray subsistence or meal costs
PHP50,000
livelihood assistance
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Enrolment
to the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation
Assistance
Medical, legal, and livelihood assistance
Other
benefit packages
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The Empty Promises of E-CLIP Rackeetering Scheme
Among the first casualties of the government's Executive Order No. 70 and the Whole-of-Nation Approach against counterinsurgency implemented in 2018 were the peasant masses -- farmers, farmworkers, peasant leaders, rural women and youth, fisherfolk, and millions of Filipinos living in the countryside and hinterland communities.
Day and night, the peasant masses are being terrorized by state forces -- Duterte's paid mercenaries -- the reactionary Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine National Police (PNP), their force multipliers from the National Task Force to End Local Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), and intelligence network.
Among the main components of this state-sponsored war include the following: large-scale AFP deployment, joint AFP and PNP operations, and the relentless and sustained Retooled Community Support Program (RCSP) operations in peasant, coastal and indigenous peoples' communities.
This well-oiled, trigger-happy war machinery of the Duterte regime is being complemented by civilian-led machinations and psywar ops conducted under the NTF-ELCAC's flagship programs -- the Enhanced Community Local Integration Program (E-CLIP) and Barangay Development Program (BDP). Local government units from the regional level down to barangays or villages are playing major roles in the implementation of these programs.
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In his last State of the Nation Address (SONA) speech, Duterte boasted that more than 17,000 former New People's Army (NPA) fighters have surrendered to the folds of the law. According to the regime's Task Force Balik-Loob under the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), from July 1, 2016, to May 28, 2021, there were 3,684 NPA regulars, 2,039 Milisyang Bayan members, 1,736 individuals from so-called underground mass organizations, 636 from Sangay ng Partido sa Lokalidad, and 7,074 alleged communist mass supporters have surrendered. However, the majority of these so-called surrenderees are civilians -- ordinary farmers who were either coerced, forced, or duped into 'surrendering' to the government.
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It is already an open secret that the E-CLIP is nothing more than a lucrative racket and milking cow of the military. As if by force of habit, the government continually presented fake and forced surrenderees as if they are 'war trophies' to show that they are winning the hearts and minds of the people and are close to defeating the half-century-old local communist insurgency.
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