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Philippines: Cycle of conflict and neglect: Mindanao's displacement and protection crisis

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A family fleeing on a motorcycle taxi from military sweeping operations in the municpality of Datu Piang, Maguindanao (IDMC, May 2009).
21 January 2010: New tool to help track movement and needs of IDPs in Mindanao

Last week the International Office for Migration (IOM) in the Philippines handed over the Humanitarian Response Monitoring System (HRMS) to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the government’s lead agency on IDP protection and assistance. The HRMS, which was initially designed by IOM in response to natural disasters, was adapted during 2009 to fit Mindanao’s complex emergency setting and is designed to track population movements, identify humanitarian needs and map ongoing interventions.

The database should also enable the government to better profile the displaced population and coordinate assistance for them with other aid agencies. As of early January, only 20 per cent of the estimated 125,000 IDPs reported by the DSWD to be still living in evacuation centres in Maguindanao Province had been registered in the HRMS. In addition to those living in the camps, tens of thousands are staying with host communities, but their counting has reportedly been discontinued by the government.



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Internal Displacement Profile

"Causes and Background","Background","Causes of displacement","Overview of displaced populations"
"IDP Population Figures","Number of IDPs","Location (s) of IDP populations","IDP Demographic structure"
"IDP Population Movements and Patterns","Population movements","Patterns of movement"
"Physical Security and Integrity","Physical security","dignity","mental and moral integrity","Liberty and freedom of movement"
"Basic Necessities of Life","General","Food and water","Shelter and housing","Medical care and sanitation"
"Property, Livelihoods, Education and Other Economic, Social and Cultural Rights","Land and Property","Primary education and educational programmes","Work and livelihood opportunities and coping strategies","Other economic","social and cultural rights"
"Family Life, Participation, Access to Justice and Other Civil and Political Rights","Access to justice"
"Protection of Special Categories of IDPs (Age, Gender, Diversity)","Gender - Women and Men","Boys","girls and adolescents","Indigenous peoples","minorities","peasants","pastoralists and other groups with a special dependency on and attachment to their lands"
"Durable Solutions (Return, Local Integration, Settlement Elsewhere in the Country)","Documented returns","settled locally and settled elsewhere","Prospects for and obstacles to voluntary return","local settlement and settlement elsewhere","Support for return integration and reintegration"
"National and International Response","International human rights and humanitarian law framework including references to the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement","National Response","Humanitarian access and assistance","International Response"

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Displacement in Maguindanao, IDMC, May 2009 (Datu Piang) / (Datu Odin Sinsuat)