As women of Butig Lanao del Sur realized that their chance of influencing the policymakers and leaders in their community is a right, not a privilege, they started the women's…

Continue ReadingWomen coalition in Butig, Lanao del Sur advances women’s rights, community development, lasting peace

Women coalition in Butig, Lanao del Sur advances women’s rights, community development, lasting peace

At the community level, USAID-Marawi Response Project believes in the power of locally-led advocacy — and wants to push more community-based rollouts in Ending Gender-Based Violence (EGBV) by empowering women,…

Continue ReadingYouth-Led Organization in Lanao del Sur Champions EGBV, Breaking Culture of Silence

Youth-Led Organization in Lanao del Sur Champions EGBV, Breaking Culture of Silence

Capturing learning from a Typhoon Odette Community-led Humanitarian Action Sitio Quarry, Barangay San Antonio, Libjo, Dinagat Islands Libjo is a fifth-class municipality in the Province of Dinagat Islands.  It is…

Continue ReadingEcological Warriors in a Mining Community

Ecological Warriors in a Mining Community

Since the launch of the Grand Bargain in 2016, progress on implementing the localisation promise at the country level has been very slow. The signatories target to talk about the…

Continue ReadingMoving Forward Localisation of Humanitarian Action in The Philippines | Key Findings and Recommendations

Moving Forward Localisation of Humanitarian Action in The Philippines | Key Findings and Recommendations

Iligan City, April 12 | On March 31, at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the heavily armed persons believed to be members of the CPP-NPA, attacked but failed to…

Continue ReadingFamilies displaced by armed conflict between alleged communist rebels, gov’t armed forces receive relief

Families displaced by armed conflict between alleged communist rebels, gov’t armed forces receive relief

  SITUATION OVERVIEW At around 10 AM of March 31, suspected NPA forces, estimated by the local people to number at least a hundred, who earlier raided the house of…

Continue ReadingInternal Displacement Due to Armed Conflict Between AFP and Suspected Elements of the NPA in the Ancestral Domain of Higaunon Tribe in Iligan City

Internal Displacement Due to Armed Conflict Between AFP and Suspected Elements of the NPA in the Ancestral Domain of Higaunon Tribe in Iligan City

Displacement and Armed Conflict Situationer A total of 234 families from the communities of Binasan, Baniogan, and Salingsing within the Bayug-Iligan ancestral domain and undetermined number from communities of Limonda,…

Continue ReadingHigaunon Indigenous Peoples in the Ancestral Domains of Bayug-Iligan and Dulangan displaced and scared due to ongoing fighting between NPA guerrillas and Philippine Army

Higaunon Indigenous Peoples in the Ancestral Domains of Bayug-Iligan and Dulangan displaced and scared due to ongoing fighting between NPA guerrillas and Philippine Army

A ceremonial turn-over of the Barangay Development Plans (BDPs), as part of the peace-building component of the SPAN-WAVE project implemented by OPAPP and UNDP in partnership with ECOWEB, took place…

Continue Reading7 barangays in Marawi under SPAN-WAVE project receive final Barangay Development Plan, promote peace-building

7 barangays in Marawi under SPAN-WAVE project receive final Barangay Development Plan, promote peace-building

ECOWEB in partnership with Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) for the implementation of the project “Support to Peace and Normalization – Welfare Assistance to Vulnerable…

Continue ReadingECOWEB to continue support OPAPP’s peace, normalization through trainings on social enterprise component

ECOWEB to continue support OPAPP’s peace, normalization through trainings on social enterprise component