Staff of Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA) is joining other agencies of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and other non-government organizations in a two-day training on project cycle management on December 8-9, at Al-Nor Hotel, Cotabato City.

Purpose of the training is to capacitate BDA and other participating organizations of skills on project management that will help in successful implementation of the program currently managed by the agency.

At present, BDA is implementing five programs which are the Mindanao Trust Fund Reconstruction and Development Program (MTF-RDP), Community Development in Conflict Affected Areas in Mindanao (CD-CAAM), Program for Local Economic Development through Enlightened Governance and Grassroots Empowered (PLEDGE), Tahderiyyah Curriculum Program (TCP) and the Bangsamoro Development Plan (BDP) Formulation Project.

Through the training, it is expected that participants will learn knowledge and skills on the phases of project management such as problem and objectives analysis, structure of the project and the Project Design Matrix (PDM).

Kazuhiro Okamoto, HRD Expert Consultant of JICA is the facilitator of the training.

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is supporting this two-day training as part of the Comprehensive Capacity Development Project for the Bansgsamoro (CCDP-B) under the Human Resource Development (HRD).

Other participants to the training are coming from Bangsamoro Leadership Management Institute (BLMI), Sajahatra Bangsamoro (SB), Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) and other non-government organizations (NGOs).