Building Conflict-Resilient Communities and Development Initiatives in Muslim Mindanao (CORE-CODE), Preventing Urban Violence and Emerging Threats (PREVENT), and STAND for Marawi The project expands the reach and depth of innovative inter-operable platforms developed under the previous DFAT-funded BASIC BANGSAMORO project, including ALERTâ€™s Resource Use Management Planning System (RUMP); Violent Conflict-Monitoring System (CONFLICT-ALERT), and the Violent Extremism Early Response Network (VE-ERN). 

The project addresses four (4) important needs: 
(1) the need to provide socio-economic alternatives and opportunities for youth and women to prevent their capture by violent extremism; 
(2) the need to end the enduring violence from land and other resource-based conflicts, and to create a conducive environment for long term economic growth; 
(3) the need to create conditions that will facilitate the entry of conflict-sensitive businesses and investments in conflict affected areas; and, 
(4) the need for inclusive legislation that enhances Bangsamoro autonomy and strengthens anti-discrimination rules and policies at the national and regional levels.  

PREVENT
The project aims to address the following important needs:
1. The need to have a nuanced and comprehensive approach to addressing vulnerabilities to violent extremism;
2. The need to understand the drivers of violent conflict and harness collective responses that is context-specific and multi-faceted; and
3. The need to provide socio-economic and development opportunities for youth and women to prevent their capture by violent extremism. The project objectives directly support the objectives outlined under the Australian Partnerships for Peace Programme, and are also consistent with the Philippine governmentâ€™s Strategic Framework for Peace and Development (SFPD). The general objective is to build conflict-resilient communities impervious to violent extremism and resource-based conflict as the foundation for long term stability and development in the Bangsamoro.  The specific objectives are: 
(1) to prevent the capture of youth and women by the forces of violent extremismâ€”an objective that matches the APP objective of strengthening community cohesion and resilience through women, youth, religious, and others;
(2) to reduce land and resource -based conflictâ€”an objective that matches the APP objective of averting the escalation of violence and resolving conflict;  
(3) to create the conditions that will facilitate the entry of conflict-sensitive businesses and investments in conflict affected areas; which is consistent with the SFPD objective of accelerating the delivery of socio-economic projects in conflict-affected communities; and, 
(4) to strengthen support for inclusive legislation that enhances Bangsamoro autonomy and strengthens anti-discrimination rules and policies at the national and regional levels, which meets the APP objective of inclusive participation in the peace process and political dialogue. 
PREVENT
1. Establish early response networks (ERNs) among Moro and IP youth in parts of Mindanao and in the Muslim enclaves in Metro-Manila and Baguio that monitor conflict trends and harness collective responses to socio-economic issues that enable violent extremism to take root.
2. Enable participants to augment their understanding and skills to make context-specific change within their communities.
3. Support the development of broader change project proposals that seek to address socio-exclusion and promote political participation. The primary beneficiaries are Islamized and non-Islamized groups in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao who are directly affected by transition-induced violence and whose access to government institutions are extremely limited if not lacking.