conceptualizing the mission, activities planned by the team were duly coordinated with both organizations. Methods CHR IDP M ONITORING T OOL The CHR IDP monitoring tool is a combination of Displacement Monitoring Forms consolidated by the Commission during its decades of work with IDPs in the Philippines. The tool has four (4) forms, including various sub-forms (need refs/or appendix). Specific to the mission, the team used the following forms: ● ● ● ● Evacuation Area Identification Form or Form 1-B Core Protection Activities Form or Form 1-B.1 Human Rights Assessment Form or Form 1-B.2 Protection from Arbitrary Displacement Form or Form 2 Adopting the 2015 resolution of the CHRP132, the CHR IDP monitoring tool was the principal instrument during the mission. The CHR-CCHP Center together with CHR-XII representatives, under the General IDP cluster team, conducted evaluations on the core protection activities initiated by the Philippine government; human rights assessment; and the protection from arbitrary displacement of the IDPs (see: Appendix G). While the CHR-X and CHR-XII, under the Government and Evacuation Center Mapping cluster team, used the Evacuation Area Identification Form (see: Appendices K-O). In addition, the conduct of CHR-CCHP133 and regional monitoring is not limited to the joint monitoring mission. It also covers the entire stages of displacement in accordance with the mandate of the center and regional offices. The CHR IDP monitoring tool was also significant at the time of the disaster response phase. The team deliberated policies, reported gaps in humanitarian response, and recommended programs to NEOC to ease immediate burden at the evacuation centers (see: Appendix H). E XPLORING L IVED E XPERIENCE In locating and understanding the experiences of IDPs affected due to the conflict in Marawi City, the team probed into their lived experience. This qualitative method has been an effective tool in gathering information in various research disciplines 134, humanitarian documentation135, and human rights-based approach136. The purpose of using this method was to explore the lived experiences – such as inclusion, marginalization, exclusion, burden, suffering, and other external factors – that are affecting the lives of IDP women, LGBTI, and children at the time when they flee their homes and while remaining in the evacuation areas. In this context, the team believed that IDPs are experts on their own experiences and can offer – policy makers, government institutions, humanitarian agencies, and others – an understanding of their thoughts, feelings and actions through telling their own stories, in their own words. These narratives were gathered using three (3) strategies below: ● Key Informant Interviews ▪ In-depth Interviews were used by the gender and children cluster teams (see: Table 2). The interviews took roughly 30 minutes to an hour. The interviews were in Tagalog, Bisaya, and Maranao, some were translated from Bisaya and Maranao to Tagalog and vice versa. The children cluster team used this tool in most of the evacuation areas (see: Appendix F). 132 See: The Commission on Human Rights Philippines, 2015. Table 29: CHR Internal Policies. Resolution CHR (IV) No. AM 2015-094, p. 55. 133 “The Center shall serve as the secretariat to coordinate the implementation of mechanisms to protect people who are affected by crisis and conflict brought by armed conflicts, disasters and other emergency situations” (Commission on Human Rights, 2017). 134 See: Paley, 2014 135 See: Eastmond, 2007 136 See: Unnithan, 2015 17