BARMM - The Institution

BARMM: Issues, Opportunities and
Challenges and Tiyakap Agenda

Basic on BTA: Premise
• A care-taker government whose task is to build the foundation of genuine

reforms for the inception of the regular government;
• To move forward, it should look at the ARMM achievement as a base line
because it can not afford to do less;
• The BTA needs to look at the best practices of the ARMM and at the same
time reviews its inadequacies and fill the gaps and move beyond;
• The BTA must prove that indeed the BARMM is a better alternative and
that it addresses satisfactorily the Bangsamoro question.
The BARMM- The Institution
The BOL/Pol System Institutional Architecture/ The Leadership
Organizational Design
Some Opportunities
• The BOL provides broader legal instrument to pursue legislative agenda and
development programs which, when handled efficiently and effectively, can
produce better outcomes in the BAR;
• The BOL satisfies certain level of self-determination of the Bangsamoro in
terms of preserving their identity, culture, political self-governance and
developing their socio-economic program which can usher-in better life for
them;
• The BOL stands as the better do-able option (an incremental
success) from all other previous political entities granted to
the BM in the course of their struggle for self-governance;
• Cessation of hostilities between the AFP and the BIAF that

will reduce violence and provide space for more investment;
The BOL can pave the way for national unity and reconciliation
and may poster horizontal harmony among the different tribal and
religious groups in the BM (Transitional Justice);
The Parliament with dual function of legislation and

implementation, has broader membership to include one faction of
the MNLF, other groups and sectors;
Fiscal autonomy, block grant, special development fund and broad

range of support from some countries and many INGO-partners
Challenges
• The new autonomous entity (BARMM) should be given the chance
and necessary support;
• Some declared giving it a chance but will not support it
• Transition from a revolutionary government to running a
bureaucracy;
• No COA in the revolution
• No police and Military power, instead will undergo
decommissioning
• Meeting high expectations vs. limited sovereignty
• Presence of other political and ideological groups, NSAGs;
RIDO
• Poverty, culture of corruption, political dynasties, oligarchs,
economic monopoly;
• Weak social cohesion and divides along religious, tribal and
ethnic lines are also common in the BARMM which can
serve as another gridlock in the development of the region;
The 10-point Transition Review and integrate Study and design the
Agenda of the MILD-led the Bangsamoro appropriate bureaucracy for
BTA Development Plan, the the Bangsamoro
Enact priority measures ARMM Development Government to ensure the
such as electoral code, Plan, Camp right balance between the
Civil Service Code, Transformation Plan size of the bureaucracy and
Administrative Code and other Bangsamoro the services that need to be
and other legislations plans to make them delivered as well as the
that need to be enacted responsive to current appropriate skills required
during the BTA; needs. of people in the
bureaucracy;
Set up programs that will Special programs for
Rehabilitation and
respond to the pressing transitioning combatants
reconstruction of
social and economic and their families apart
Marawi. ―Marawi must
challenges in the from regular programs of
be quickly rehabilitated
Bangsamoro such as the government like 4 Ps.
and reconstructed as
poverty, education, Philhealth, among others
every delay is an
health, access to clean ―to ensure that these
opportunity for violent
water and electricity, job programs are tailored fit to
extremism to use it for
opportunity, among their needs so that they
propaganda and
others. will become productive
recruitment‖.
members of the society’.
Enhance security by
Develop policy Energy development and maximizing the utilization
environment on power generation of available legitimate
transparency, improvement to support forces on the ground and
accountability, and the development of leveraging on the network
prudent fiscal policy as industries that will of the MILF in the
well as improvement generate jobs and other Bangsamoro communities
on revenue opportunities; by deploying such joint
generation; forces such as the JPSTs
(Joint Peace and Security
Teams); and
Ensure a productive
partnership between the
BAR and development
partners as well as the
national government to
ensure complementation of
programs to maximize results
The CSOs Agenda?
• Build constructive engagement and meaningful collaboration with the Regional
government;
• Organize active Citizenry for good governance;
• Development agenda setting;
• Promoting and sustaining COP;
• Building People’s platform for continuing dialogues;
• Social cohesion
• Social services;
• Party building
• Consultancy services;
• Support the normalization process including transitional justice

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BARMM: Issues, Opportunities and

Challenges and Tiyakap Agenda

• A care-taker government whose task is to build the foundation of genuine

• Cessation of hostilities between the AFP and the BIAF that

The Parliament with dual function of legislation and

Fiscal autonomy, block grant, special development fund and broad

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