The Philippines has received a 1.8 billion yen grant from the Japanese government to create jobs and boost the socioeconomic development in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
The Philippines has received a 1.8 billion yen grant from the Japanese government to create jobs and boost the socioeconomic development in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao .
“The signing of the Grant Agreement for the Programme for the Urgent Improvement of Socioeconomic Infrastructure in Bangsamoro will further strengthen the cooperation between our two governments,” Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua said in a news statement. The Bangsamoro Infrastructure Needs Survey, conducted from December 2018 to February 2019 by Jica, served as the basis for the potential socioeconomic infrastructure projects that the grant will support.
The projects were under the Japan-Bangsamoro Initiatives for Reconstruction and Development , while four more projects began implementation in the previous Japanese fiscal year.
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