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A family displaced by the Zamboanga conflict receives core relief items. Photo: UNHCR/K. Eleazar ZAMBOANGA CITY: FIVE YEARS AFTER THE SIEGE
Peak displacement figures in 2013
28,976 individual Home-based s, 24%
In evacuation 90,738 centers individuals, 76%
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Timeline of Events
The Zamboanga City By 2017, most of the Roadmap for Recovery & humanitarian Reconstruction (Z3R Plan) interventions had was approved by ended. President Benigno Aquino III. Pending activities, including Camp Humanitarian assistance Coordination and started to transition from Camp Management in the emergency phase to the Transitory Sites, the early recovery phase. were fully handed Some of the transitory over to the City UNHCR, together with sites (TS) opened in Government. the Zamboanga City January 2014. Government, UN OCHA and UNHCR facilitated a two-day
Construction of sustained their workshop in Cebu permanent housing units presence and City. Lessons learned started in August 2014. monitoring, but on an in the past five years Under the Z3R Plan, 6,343 ad hoc basis. were discussed as housing units will be Construction of the action points were constructed. Transfer of remaining housing agreed up. This the IDPs to the transitory units by NHA was activity marked the sites will be facilitated, delayed due to revival of the Local leading towards gradual unavailability of Inter-Agency 2013 return. 2015- 2016 materials. 2018 Committee (LIAC).
2014 2017 Conflict started on 09 In 2015-2016, In February 2018, a 2019 September and lasted humanitarian permanent housing up to 28 September coordination fully shifted unit in one of the 2013. to an early recovery resettlement sites structure. collapsed. In October, the City All evacuation centers Government Gradual transfer of were closed. IDPs were recommended to the IDPs from the transferred to Transitory NDRRMC that the Transitory Sites and Sites. President be requested home-based settings to declare Zamboanga Turn-overs of the to the permanent City under a state of permanent housing units housing units calamity. to the beneficiaries continued. started. Humanitarian Seventy evacuation interventions, including
centers opened to by UN agencies, started accommodate IDPs. phasing down.
The cluster system was The Local Inter-Agency activated. Protection Committee (LIAC), as the Cluster meetings were main platform of led by DSWD Region 9, coordination, was with UNHCR as co-lead. activated under the
leadership of the City Mayor. Humanitarian partners were invited as observers at LIAC meetings.
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HOUSES CONSTRUCTED ON LAND HOUSES CONSTRUCTED ON STILTS
Total number of houses constructed 1,856 4,487
Total number of houses awarded or 1,439 3,538 turned over
Total number of houses to be turned 417 949 over
At the Sta. Catalina transitory site, these men sell fish for a living. Photo: UNHCR
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Tumaga
Putik Location of remaining IDPs in Transitory Sites (TS) and Home-basedZambowood Settings (as of MayMercedes 2019)
Santa Maria Guiwan
Tugbungan Masepla II TS Tetuan 107 families (535 individuals) Canelar Camino Arena Blanco Nuevo Baliwasan San Jose Masepla III TS Cawa-cawa Mampang 22 families Arena Barangay Arena Blanco Santo Zone IV Asinan TS (110 individuals) Blanco Niño (Pob.) Barangay Santa 28 families Zone II (Pob.) Catalina (140 individuals) Barangay Zone Kasanyangan I (Pob.) Talon-talon Barangay Zone III (Pob.) Santa Barbara Buggoc TS 23 families (115 individuals) Mariki Rio Hondo Legend
Road Rio Hondo TS Home-based 36 families Transitory Site (180 individuals)
Location map
IDPs in home-based settings in 5 barangays 450 families (2,250 individuals) Tigtabon
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