Mindanao Gets P35M on 2017 National Budget for Arts and Culture Projects as Announced by the NCCA

09 Sep Mindanao Gets P35M on 2017 National Budget for Arts and Culture Projects as Announced by the NCCA

To “continue to fulfill its mandate of preserving, developing and promoting of Philippine arts and culture by giving financial and technical assistance to arts and cultural projects,” Mindanao will be allocated with a budget of P35 million from the 2017 NCCA national budget for arts and culture projects as announced by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).

With this, the NCCA is looking for applicants who do have arts and cultural proposals here in Mindanao. And according to Renee C. Talavera who is the Section Head- Subcommission on Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts, the allocated budget will be for the following 13 projects which are yet for approval.

• Support for Community-Managed Natural Heritage Conservation or Ecotourism Site Enrichment Projects with a project cost of P2 million
• Mindanao Indigenous Peoples Summit and Regional Assembly with a project cost of P2.1 million.
  Go, Go, Kultura Mindanao (#GGMM): Promoting Mindanao’s Culture, Arts and Heritage Program with a project cost of P4.8 million.
• Mindanao Summit on Culture and Arts with a project cost of P3 million.
• “Kalilintad Mindanao”: Focused in Indigenous Dispute Resolution with a project cost of P1.5 million.
• Sub-regional festivals on Culture, Heritage and the Arts with a project cost of P4.2 million.
• Production of new creative works, cultural studies, and cultural exchange with a project cost of P6.9 million.
• ADAT Intervention Program/IP traditional justice system with a project cost of P700,000
• Mindanao’s Regional Culture and Arts Centers (Sentro ng Pangkulturang Bayan) with a project cost of P3.6 million.
• LAGDA MINDANAO: Assistance for Local Government Units (LGU’s) on the establishment of guidelines for built-environment with a project cost of P2 million.
• Mindanao indigenous creative response on disaster risk reduction and management with a project cost of P2 million
• Youth-oriented and Culture-focused Formation Program in the ARMM and IP communities with a project cost of P1 million.
• Mindanao Capability Building, Creative Skills share with a project cost of P1.250 million.
• Talavera said that the NCCA has a set of two categories of the proposal.

“Category A includes projects which have been conceptualized during the various levels of planning workshops by its various national committees following the identified needs of the locality and where specific outputs and deliverables had been defined,” said Talavera adding that the projects in the said category will have three or more component activities. “Proponents interested to implement projects under this category may submit a letter of intent while category B calls for project proposals conceptualized by proponents with due consideration to the important concerns cited in the project brief and aligned to the identified NCCA priorities and outcomes.”

The deadline of submissions of letters of intent and proposals will be on September 30 and must be submitted to the Planning, Policy Formulation and programming Division (PPFPD) being led by its division chief Bernan Joseph Corpuz at Room 5-A, fifth floor, NCCA Building, 633 General Luna Street, Intramuros.