Army, TESDA aid AgNor villages toward productivity, resiliency By 1Lt. Roel T. Maglalang
The 23rd Infantry “Masigasig” Battalion (23rd IB) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority in Agusan del Norte(TESDA-ADN) conducted a “Grand Pulong- pulong sa Barangay” in support of the Poverty Reduction, Livelihood and Employment Cluster (PRLEC) of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on September 25, 2020 and was joined by residents of Barangays Poblacion and Rojales in Carmen, Agusan del Norte. The NTF-ELCAC was established through Executive Order No. 70 s. 2018 or the Whole-of-Nation Approach assembling the different national government agencies (NGAs) and the private sector to aid communities that are in need of assistance and social development and to solve the 52-year-
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old insurgency problem in the country. The PRLEC is one of the 12 clusters of NTF-ELCAC led by TESDA with the task of designing new and different strategies to ensure better services for communities and as part of the state’s efforts to further promote sustainable and inclusive peace.