The Six Ps of peace

On January 2024, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) created the International Private Partnership Office (IPPO) by expanding the mandate of the International Cooperation and Partnership Office (ICPO).

- PEACE BY PEACE SECRETARY CARLITO G. GALVEZ, JR.

This move recognizes the importance of the role that the private sector plays in sustaining our gains in peacebuilding and prevent the recurrence of conflict.

The decision to institutionalize the inclusion of the private sector in the convergence framework for peace sustainability is Inspired by our experience with the active and voluntary contributions of the private sector in the nationwide rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination and guided by the government's formal declaration of the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) policy on December 2023.

The convergence framework and setup includes the local government units, the national government agencies through the PAMANA program, International and private sector partnerships, social healing, and the various peace tables being managed by OPAPRU.

The private sector has been helping through their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs and peacebuilding has benefitted from the philanthropy that often fills the gaps missed by government programs, The IPPO has been given the strategic objective of negotiating for partnerships that will catalyze the creation of trade and commerce in the peace zones. Trade and commerce are key in bringing economic activities and in creating values that should be inherent in the normalization and transformation efforts. The PPP strategy has successfully given birth to both infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects that brought development and progress in both rural and urban areas. The roads and bridges we traverse to get to our places of work and business are the more visible results of PPP.