Mindanao Displacement Dashboard, September 2019
As of the 30th of September, a total number of 36,173 families (179,539 individuals) are currently displaced in Mindanao. Of this number, 2,600 families (13,001 individuals) were displaced within the month of September — 2% (315 individuals) of which have returned to their homes by month’s end, while 98% (12,686 individuals) remain displaced.
A recent development in the Bangsamoro region is the passage of a resolution by the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), establishing the Special Committee on Marawi Rehabilitation. The said committee “will exercise purely plenary powers to inquire, coordinate and recommend to different Ministries in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to bridge the gaps in the intervention assistance to the victims of the siege,” Marawi crisis spokesperson and BTA member Zia Alonto Adiong said.
Meanwhile, army troops overran a new camp of an Islamic State-linked group composed of remnants of those responsible for the Marawi City siege, after a gunfight in Lanao del Sur last 18 September. According to Brig. Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., commander of the Army 103rd Infantry Brigade, three armed men were arrested in the camp at Barangay Paridi, Piagapo, Lanao del Sur. Villagers spotted the group of around 30 men who were believed to be members of a local IS affiliate, according to the military. Brawner said that they have been receiving “more reports from the communities regarding the presence of enemies or armed groups” since the siege.
E.O. No. 12 provides for the establishment of the BDRRMC and a disaster risk reduction management operation center, the READI-BARMM, which shall be managed by the Ministry on Interior and Local Government (MILG). The new office replaces the ARMM Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (ARDRRMO) previously known as the Humanitarian Emergency Action Response Team (ARMM-HEART).
As the BARMM regional government continues its transition, regional officials, together with the provincial government of North Cotabato, have started preparing for the smooth turnover of 63 barangays in North Cotabato which voted in favor of their inclusion to the BARMM last February.
