I don't know what your data structure now looks like, but this is how it should be for your template:

my $department = [
    { DEPARTMENT => 'Value1' },
    { DEPARTMENT => 'Value2' },
    { DEPARTMENT => 'Value3' },
];
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If you don't get it from XML::Simple in that format, you have to loop over the array items to construct the hash references.