Lanao del Sur has declared its state of Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) in the month of July, 2021. As of July 25, 2021,  2 new cases of COVID-19 have…

Continue ReadingSew to Earn: An Opportunity at Home for an IDP Group in Butig

Sew to Earn: An Opportunity at Home for an IDP Group in Butig

More than a hundred representatives and partners in the international non-governmental organizations, local government and national government agencies, civil society organizations including the national and local non-governmental organizations and its…

Continue ReadingLaunching of Loop in the Philippines: Enabling Conversations in the Digital Shift

Launching of Loop in the Philippines: Enabling Conversations in the Digital Shift

Nearly a hundred representatives from local and national CSOs, INGOs, UN agencies, private sectors, and national and local governments virtually gathered in the Philippines via Zoom videoconference last June 10,…

Continue ReadingWalk the Talk: Moving Forward Localisation in the Philippines thru Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue

Walk the Talk: Moving Forward Localisation in the Philippines thru Multi-Stakeholders Dialogue

The May 2016 World Humanitarian Summit brought together 9,000 participants. They came from 180 Member States, included 55 Heads of State and Government, 700 NGOs and CSOs, of which 350…

Continue ReadingWHS Five Years on National and local actors: Voices in the Humanitarian Wilderness?

WHS Five Years on National and local actors: Voices in the Humanitarian Wilderness?

The World Humanitarian Summit and the Agenda for Humanity and the launch of the Grand Bargain in 2016 was a way to reform the humanitarian system to make it more…

Continue ReadingWalking the talk! Moving from commitments to action in Philippines 5 years since the World Humanitarian Summit

Walking the talk! Moving from commitments to action in Philippines 5 years since the World Humanitarian Summit

One date, two connected historic events May 23 – the Fourth Anniversary of the start of the Marawi Siege and the Fifth Anniversary of the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS). The…

Continue ReadingCommemorating Marawi Siege, Revisiting the World Humanitarian Summit

Commemorating Marawi Siege, Revisiting the World Humanitarian Summit

Civil society organizations in Iligan City along with the community leaders and volunteers convened yesterday to participate the Planning Workshop on COVID-19 Radio Monitoring held at Tabe’s Place, Palao, Iligan…

Continue ReadingRadio programming to take effect for COVID-19 prevention info drive

Radio programming to take effect for COVID-19 prevention info drive

The National Anti-Poverty Commission-Victims of Disasters and Calamities (NAPC-VDC) sector fully supports the community pantries set up in various locations in the country. The idea of setting up a community…

Continue ReadingNational Anti-Poverty Commission – Victims of Disasters and Calamities (NAPC-VDC) Supports the Community Pantry Initiative, Condemns Harassment and Red Tagging of Organizers

National Anti-Poverty Commission – Victims of Disasters and Calamities (NAPC-VDC) Supports the Community Pantry Initiative, Condemns Harassment and Red Tagging of Organizers

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

Subsistence agriculture is a typical mode of agriculture among the indigenous Higaunon and Kolibugan tribes in Barangay Kalilangan, Iligan City. Farming families till a small farm usually half-hectare (5,000 square…

Continue ReadingTransforming subsistence agriculture by enhancing abaca farmer

Transforming subsistence agriculture by enhancing abaca farmer