Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Livelihood

In line with UN-Habitat’s goal of advancing sustainable urbanization as a driver of development and peace to improve living conditions for all, the Rebuilding Marawi project, funded by the Government of Japan, aims to help conflict-affected and internally-displaced persons (IDPs) bounce back by providing permanent shelters and livelihood support. This is implemented through the People’s Process, a community-driven approach that has been used and proven effective in empowering communities in post-disaster and postconflict situations.

Rising from the
Marawi Siege

The five-month conflict left 24 of Marawi City’s 96 barangays—almost its entire commercial district—uninhabitable, affecting as many as 60,000 of the city’s 201,000 residents who will not be able to return. – Philippines Humanitarian Country Team, Humanitarian Response and Resources Overview, 2018 IDPs and migrant groups are also often omitted from consideration in urban sustainability planning, possibly because they are regarded as being temporary or transitory residents. – World Cities Report 2020: The Value of Sustainable Urbanization The proximity of different families that were dislocated and later thrown together in cramped shelters has raised tensions and incidents of violence. Getting medical help is difficult with few medial workers on site and with the crowding of health centers and hospitals due to the pandemic. It is also difficult to find jobs and other employment because of the distance of the shelters from public transport hubs or the few commercial areas left in Marawi. – Enduring Wars, Conflict Alert, 2020

Through the People’s Process, affected communities are heavily involved in project design and implementation, so much so that they are no longer mere recipients of aid on the sidelines but rather prime movers who are front and center in the recovery process.

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GoJ is the funding agency of UN-Habitat’s Healthy Oceans and Clean Cities Initiative (HOCCI) and the Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Livelihood.

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DHSUD is a key government partner of UN-Habitat. It sits in the Project Advisory Committee of the Supporting Blue-Green Recovery, Strengthening Resilience, and Promoting Sustainable Growth in Philippine Cities and Communities through Nature-Based Solutions and Circular Economy (RRSG thru NBS-CE) and sat as Chair of the Project Steering Committee of Building Climate Resiliency through Urban Plans and Design (BCRUPD).

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NHA is a key government partner of UN-Habitat’s Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Liveliehood project.

The Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) is one of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development’s key shelter agencies. Under Executive Order 272, the SHFC is the lead government agency to undertake social housing programs that will cater to the formal and informal sectors in the low-income bracket and shall take charge of developing and administering social housing program schemes, particularly the CMP and the AKPF Program (amortization support program and development financing program).

NHA is a key government partner of UN-Habitat’s Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Liveliehood project.

Task Force Bangon Marawi (TBFM) is composed of various government agencies working together towards the recovery, reconstruction and rehabilitation of Marawi City.

TBFM is a key government partner of UN-Habitat’s Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Liveliehood project.

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It is one of the partners of UN-Habitat’s Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Liveliehood project.

The Marawi Sultanate League is one of the local government partners of UN-Habitat’s Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Liveliehood project.

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UN-Habitat supports the rehabilitation of the city through the Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Liveliehood project.

MARADECA, the Maranao People Development Center Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit service oriented institution catering to the needs of the Moro People in their quest for socio economic advancement and to struggle for peace and development. It adopts a people-based, community based, integrated and sustainable development framework that creatively reflects the aspirations of one Moro People.

MARADECA is an implementing partner of UN-Habitat for the Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Liveliehood project.

Al-Amanah Islamic Investment Bank of the Philippines (AAIIBP) is a universal bank authorized to perform and provide Islamic banking, financing and investment services pursuant to R.A. 6848, otherwise known as the Charter of the Al-Amanah Islamic Bank of the Philippines of 1990.

AAIIBP is a partner of UN-Habitat’s Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Livelihood project.

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Holcim is a partner of UN-Habitat for the Rebuilding Marawi through Community-driven Shelter and Liveliehood project.