5. Displaced families continue to dwell in congested temporary shelters which had broken down with some bunk houses destroyed and board walks dilapidated 6. Limited access to electricity 7. Lack of bathing premises 8. Local health centers are at least 2 kilometers away from transitory sites. Thus, pregnant women rarely visit the birthing station due to distance IDPs in home-based settings: 1. IDPs tagged as sharers have not yet been awarded with permanent shelters extending the burden of the host families where they are staying 2. IDPs awarded with shelters but have not yet allowed to transfer complained that their units were already occupied by others 3. Lack of access to assistance, food and non-food Awardees of permanent shelters: 1. Some units have been occupied illegally by other IDPs and other units were given to the victims of recent fire incident in a portion of Barangay Kasanyangan 2. The space of permanent housing units is not sufficient to accommodate the number of persons in each household. Children who were counted as such during the crisis are now adults and some with their own families living in the same units. Common protection issues: 1. Access to livelihood- While some are engaged in income generating activities, the same is not sufficient to defray their daily cost of living. 2. Access to education- Some children preferred to help their parents to supplement the family’s income. 3. Access to information – IDPs merely rely on information from neighbours, friends and relatives and there is no other mode of information dissemination that would update them about the plans for the transfer. The Covid 19 pandemic brought more problems to the overly burdened IDPs, to wit, there is no disinfecting area in the sites, the IDPs do not have hygiene or disinfecting kits, they lack adequate food, supplements and medicine, there is hardly any mechanism for quarantine and social distancing and curfew is a problem as water is on schedule basis and some would have to ferry their share at night. These issues were already raised to the OCWD, the LGU and the Covid Task Force. Recommendations, Agreements and Ways Forward: 1. Similar security issues were already raised the last time prompting local officials to conduct roving activities 2. IDPs were provided with water gallons or containers to at least assist them in accessing water and were allowed to ferry water even at night time 6 6