organizational re-shuffling, and disorganization were existing at the ICS-Incident Command
System143; which trickled down to camp managers at the evacuation centers (ECs). Interviews
with camp managers illustrates organizational issues and systematic problems such as: lack of
orientation; turn-overs; and psychological de-briefing before and after the service at the
evacuation area. Also, the interviews gathered and consolidated from camp managers showed
inconsistencies on the stories and narratives from the IDPs – particularly from mothers. For
example, the camp managers interviewed by the general IDP cluster team states that, there were
no instances of hospitalization while IDPs were living in the ECs; this statement was opposite to
the a mother and daughter who suffered diarrhea and was hospitalized 144. Inconsistencies such
as this may have resulted to non-compliance or inadequate response to basic humanitarian
standards, and core protection activities provisioned by the government. Below are the
assessments gathered by General IDP and Government cluster teams during the mission using
the CHR IDP Monitoring Tool145:
C ORE P ROTECTION A CTIVITIES
Core Protection
Activities
Strengths
Gaps & Challenges
All evacuation areas have profiling
system.
The profiling system were handled by
different agencies; some were handled by
non-DSWD personnel.
Profiling
Initial HR monitoring were
Protection
conducted by RHRC-ARMM and
Monitoring CHR
Some ECs have help desks
established by RHRC.
Capacity
Building
Help desks were not equally distributed in
all of the ECs visited.
Limited advocacy activities in the area.
Advocacy
Camp
Coordination
and
Management
Issues on Disaster Assistance and Family
Access Card (DAFAC) registrations were
not systematic, therefore some ECs were
not given equal opportunity.
In some ECs there were no protection
cluster in placed.
IDPs, in various ECs, are satisfied
with their camp managers.
There were capacity building
efforts done by the local
government agencies in
collaborations with other
International Humanitarian
Agencies such as UNICEF, UNHCR,
and Red Cross. Efforts such as: 3day training for the group officers
and cleanliness; focus group
discussions on EC policies, rules
and regulations; and relaying
information to the IDPs.
No formal structures or channels, but
some ECs set up ways to express the
grievances of the IDPs to let the camp
managers know their issues.
The turn-over of camp-managers from
MSWD or DSWD to DSWD-ARMM were
unclear.
Some ECs have camp leaders but no
specific camp manager. In one instance, a
Barangay Captain acts as the camp
manager.
There efforts were not unified and
programmatic. Questions of sustaining
and systematizing for all ECs were raised.
143 See: Interview with NMIT representative
144 See: Appendix F, specifically Calima Sarip Abang’s story, Jocelyn Lagata, Isuihaya Banbo
145 This are summary of the IDP monitoring report of the government, EC mapping, and general IDP cluster teams. See Appendices K-P.
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