Civilian Protection Monitoring in Mindanao Fills Information Gap
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The document discusses civilian protection monitoring in Mindanao through a grassroots-based approach. It highlights the information gap between conflict-affected communities and outside actors due to physical and social divides. Over 1,000 community monitors across 14 provinces provide reports on protection issues to fill this gap. Their reports are collated and shared with ceasefire bodies, aid agencies, and human rights organizations to improve monitoring and response efforts in remote conflict areas.
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Civilian Protection Monitoring in Mindanao Fills Information Gap
- 1. Civilian Protection Monitoring in Mindanao: The Power of Information Zainudin Malang Executive Director Mindanao Human Rights Action Center, Inc. (MinHRAC) [email_address] Civil-Military Interaction Seminar 2011 November 7-10, 2011 Sydney, Australia
- 9. Mode of Alert Transmittal by Grassroots Monitors Sample SMS 1 Sample SMS 2 Alert: Fighting in Brgy. A, Mun. of B, between government and rebels forces, from 9am to 12nn today, Dec. 7. 2 civilians injured in crossfire namely: X and Y. Other civilians sought shelter in nearby school. Grassroots Monitors Monitoring Coordinators MinHRAC Monitoring Hotline SMS SMS Alert: Armed men led by Captain or Commander so-and-so entered Brgy. A, Mun. of B, at 3pm today, Dec. 7, and burned/straffed houses of civilians. 25 homes destroyed. Civilians ran towards poblacion and need shelter.
Hinweis der Redaktion
- In an emergency, the first essential commodity is not food nor shelter. It is information. And the best source of information are the ones we are trying to help – the people living in the conflict affected villages. They are a huge untapped information resource. A fish vendor in the Municipality of Datu Piang can offer me a more nuanced conflict analysis than a PhD degree holder from the University of the Philippines.
- Based on a perception survey we conducted for the unhcr Tragi-comic consequences when actions are based on eschewed or insufficient information.
- In 2008, Mindanao produced the highest number of IDPs among all internal conflicts worldwide One village which is merely 25 kilometers from our headquarters took 3 hours for my team to reach With such a limited number of personnel, the question thus is how can the IMT monitor close to 4,000 villages
- - 4 weeks ago, at a unhcr conference in tokyo, I presented together with a government official a country presentation on the primary concerns of conflict induced IDPs. This was a joint government – NGO country presentation. And at the top of our list was politicization of humanitarian aid. Under existing operational parameters, humanitarian agencies have to deal with existing local government units in identifying beneficiaries. However, not surprising in areas with a weak governance, municipal mayors are reluctant to include in the list those villages where it didn’t get enough votes. Or worse, include those villages but substitute the names of the villagers with someone else’s.
- Just to give you an idea of the geography: highest levels of violence are in those cluster of islands to the west and in the central part of the main island which is either mountainous or marshy
- Given these challenges, what we set out to do are the following: The “business model” is quite simple: the ceasefire bodies, humanitarian agencies, the international monitoring team need actionable information WHEREAS the civilians need their concerns to be acted upon There was no such system prior to this which explains some of the flawed assumptions I mentioned earlier.
- - Note that the monitors are local Locals: we don’t recruit someone from Village A to monitor Village B. We ask a resident of Village B to monitor his own village.
- So how does our monitors’ reporting protocol look like. It is quite simple. They use a technology that is already out there. The Philippines has one of the highest mobile phone coverage and subscription rate in the world. We just found a good use for it. Incidentally, in many instances, we get our information real time, that is, sometimes when we call our monitors to validate their alerts, we can hear the sound of gunfire or artillery shell in the background. So you can imagine how frantic the appeals for help from our monitor on the other end of the line.
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