THE European Union (EU) is to allocate P63 million to help sustain peace efforts on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, with the fund and its projects to be managed and implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

This develops as the politico-economic bloc of 28 European states and the UN’s global development network launched Wednesday a project dubbed “Support Peace-Bangsamoro," whose implementation will start from this year and run until mid-2017.

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