DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PEACE FRAMEWORK – Alapan 1 Elementary School
To: Undersecretaries
Assistant Secretaries
Bureau and Service Directors
Regional Directors and BARMM Education Minister
Schools Division Superintendents
School Heads and Principals
All Others Concerned
- ln line with the government’s thrust of inclusive and sustainable peace through the Whole-of-Nation Approach in achieving good governance, all DepEd officials and personnel are enjoined to adopt the Balangkas ng Nagkakalsaag Sambayanan (BANSA) which serves as DepEd‘s Peace Framework.
- This peace framework articulates the initiatives and contributions of the Department to peace education and peacebuilding in accordance with its mandate to deliver quality, accessible, relevant and liberating K-12 Program by a modern, professional, proactive, nimble, trusted, and nurturing DepEd.
- This framework serves as a guide to all DepEd offices including schools in their involvement and engagement with various peace-related bodies in their localities, such as but not limited to, the Inter-Agency Committee on Children in Armed Conflict (IAC-CSAC), the Anti-Terrorism Council, the Committee for the Special Protection of Children, and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) where DepEd is a member.
- All DepEd Representatives to inter-agency peace-related bodies, in all governance levels, must and should participation adopt the BANSA as their framework of
- All DepEd Lead Representatives must formulate guidelines in the application of BANSA to such inter-agency bodies. Enclosure 2 (BANSA as applied to NTFELCAC) is a template of such guidelines, articulating the roles and responsibilities of DepEd at all levels of governance.
- To support the participation of the Department in the aforementioned inter-agency bodies, DepEd Central Office shall form a BANSA Peace Core Team that will provide strategic direction and guidance. Enclosure 1 stipulates the member offices to the BANSA Peace Core Team.
- Enclosed is the Balatrgkas ng Nagkakaisang Sambayanan (BANSA) Department of Education Peace Framework.
- The Office of the Undersecretary for Administration (OUA) will also call for a series of training sessions on conflict resolution, peace education, and peacebuilding for concerned representatives and DepEd personnel.
- For more information, kindly contact the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service through (02) 637-4933 or email at drrmo@deped.gov.ph .
- Immediate dissemination of this Department Order is desired.
(Source: DO_s2022_016.pdf (deped.gov.ph))
