SPCPD - Southern Philippines Council for Peace and Development

SPCPD - Southern Philippines Council for Peace and Development is a Program on Peace, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights and the Mindanao Studies Program, UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies.

Its functions are as follows:

• to take charge of the promotion, monitoring, and coordination of the improvement of peace and order in the area;
• to focus on peace and development efforts, especially in the depressed areas and initiate the implementation of appropriate projects;
• to support the local government units, when needed;
• to use other powers needed to implement its mandate as may be delegated by the President;
• to assist in the holding of elections, referenda, or plebiscite, and peoples' initiative in the area, if deputized by the Commision on Elections upon the recommendation of the President; and
• to recommend the creation of such offices or instrumentalities necessary for the effective and efficient administration of the affairs of the area.