BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (PIA) - - The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) has vowed a funding for the development of Farm-to-Market Roads (FMR) in Ambaguio town.

National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) Commissioner Simplicia Hagada said the OPAPP has recently vowed P105 million for the FMR development in Ambaguio to improve the lives of IP villagers.

“The development of FMRs in  IP communities is needed to uplift the lives of our IP villagers,” she said.

Hagada said NCIP needs to collaborate with other government agencies to bring in the needed programs, projects and activities in IP communities to address the decades-long insurgency in the country.

The NCIP is currently leading the IP Congress here with the advocacy that focuses on the  Healing , Reconciliation and Operationalizing the 11 Building Blocks in the Ancestral Domain in support of the Whole of Government/Nation Approach  by Empowering  the Former Rebels (FRs), IP Youth and IP Leaders, among others in Nueva Vizcaya . (MDCT/BME/PIA Nueva Vizcaya)