In support of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front, the U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Livelihood Enhancement and Peace program, as part of Growth With Equity in Mindanao, provided more than 28,000 former MNLF combatants with the means to begin sustainable, small-scale commercial agricultural production, thereby transforming them into productive farmers or fish/seaweed producers, and enabling them to begin earning sufficient funds to support themselves and their families. As a result of LEAP and other, similar programs, the MNLF, as a whole, has never again engaged government forces in any military or combat activity.