Mindanao Displacement Dashboard, October 2019
As of the 31st of October, a total number of 39,552 families (196,528 individuals) are currently displaced in Mindanao. Of this number, 5,488 families (27,296 individuals) were displaced within the month of October, majority of which were displaced by the earthquake in Tulunan, North Cotabato last 16 October.
Throughout the month, 5,488 families (27,296 individuals) were displaced in Mindanao, majority of which were displaced due to natural disasters (19,610 individuals).
Humanitarian actors in the region have been coordinating with national and local government units to facilitate timely and relevant response to the needs of those displaced.
In the Bangsamoro region, officials and advocates has called on President Rodrigo Duterte to immediately form the intergovernmental relations body (IGR) which is deemed “indispensable” to the success of the new Bangsamoro region. Duterte has yet to name the members of the IGR, which is mandated by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to “coordinate and resolve issues on intergovernmental relations through regular consultation and continuing negotiation in a non-adversarial manner.”
About 6,000 permanent employees of the defunct Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will be out by December as part of the transition into the new Bangsamoro ARMM (BARMM), with the first batch of 500 to end their contract of service by the end of this month. The phaseout will involve three batches of employees, with the first batch leaving their posts in November, according to Bangsamoro government Attorney General Sha Elijah Alba. The second batch will leave their posts by the first week of December, while the last batch would end their service at the end of the year.
