Component 1 Strengthening Social Capital for Peacebuilding

Component 1 seeks to strengthen the communities’ local capacities on participatory governance, peace constituency building, indigenous conflict management system and local peace initiatives. It aims to:

• Strengthen People’s Organizations and Local Social Formations (LSFs)
• Expand peace constituencies and inter-PDC/barangay peace initiatives
• Mainstream local social healing and peace-building practices 

Component 2: Promoting Human Security through Improved Access to Basic Services

Component 2 aims to improve access to an integrated health program, focusing on:

• health and nutrition
• reproductive health
• water and sanitation

The major interventions are information and education campaign, delivery of services and management of health services. The needs of communities affected by armed conflict or natural disasters are also responded to.

The Programme works with local disaster management bodies. It also collaborates with other initiatives to assist communities and local governments in the area of disaster preparedness and emergency response.

Component 3: Promoting Human Security trough Community Economic Development

Component 3 helps build the capacity of the target stakeholders in the local (community) economy to articulate their interests, organize themselves, plan, implement and supervise economic initiatives that will help improve their living conditions. To foster economic development, the Component aims to increase productivity and incomes in the target communities. Thus, its areas of assistance include:

• sustainable agri-based livelihood (farm and related activities)
• community-based enterprise development (non-farm activities) 

Component 4: Building Stakeholders’ Capacity for Conflict Transformation

Component 4 helps enable Local Government Units (LGUs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and other local institutions to:

• undertake effective conflict analysis
• promote a rights-based approach in local governance and development management
• apply systematically the human rights framework and principles of rights entitlements and state obligations at all levels (i.e. development planning, policy and legislation, administrative functions, programs and service delivery)

Component 5: Promoting and Advocating a Culture of Peace towards Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

Component 5 cuts across all other components. The areas of assistance are in:

• Building critical partnership for the promotion of the Culture of Peace
• Improving local capacities on conflict-sensitive and peace-promoting practices
• Advocating and integrating the Culture of Peace in more mainstream venues such as the media and the academe
• Mainstreaming Gender and promoting multiculturalism