Mindanao Working Group (MWG) Meetings

1. 8th MWG Meeting Highlights
   November 12-13, 2009, Grand Regal Hotel, Davao City, Philippines

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Highlights:

• Watershed and Disaster Risk Management Breakout Group

Plenary:

• Mindanao Updates
• Updates on the GRP-MILF Peace Process
• Updates on the Current Situation of the IDPs in Central Mindanao
• Strategic Action Points for the Mindanao Peace Process

Breakout Groups:

• Aid Effectiveness: Making Aid More Effective-The ARMM Experience
• Aid Effectiveness: Strategy for gradual transition from humanitarian to early recovery and long-term
• Aid Effectiveness: Paper on Strategy for Gradual Transition from Humanitarian Assistance to Early Recovery and Long-Term Rehabilitation
• IDP: Humanitarian Situation IDP “assessment of intent”
• IDP: An Assessment on the Situation of the Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs)affectedby the recent armed conflict in Mindanao
• Socio-Economic Development: Adapting to Emerging Opportunities and Challenges: Re-thinking Strategies to Mindanao’s Socio-Economic Development
• Socio-Economic Development: Behind the Veil of Conflict
• Socio-Economic Development: Hierarchical Clustering of Mindanao Municipalities and Cities based on the Incidence, Gap, and Severity of Poverty
• Watershed and Disaster Risk Mgt: UNDP's Initiative Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
• Watershed and Disaster Risk Mgt: Responses to the Impact of Climate Change in Mindanao

Proposed Action Agenda:

• Aid Effectiveness Proposed Action Agenda
• Internal Displacement in Mindanao-Proposed Action Agenda
• Socio-Economic Development in Mindanao-Proposed Action Agenda
• Watershed and Disaster Risk Management-Proposed Action Agenda

2. 7th MWG Meeting Highlights
   October 2, 2008, Manila Pavilion Hotel, Davao City, Philippines

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• Updates on the GRP-MILF Peace Process
• Complex Emergency in Mindanao
• Mindanao Snapshot
• 7th MWG Agreements and Recommendations

3. 6th MWG Meeting Highlights
   March 8, 2008, Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City, Philippines

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• Donors, gov’t execs to converge in 6th MWG meeting
• 6th MWG Press Conference



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4. 5th MWG Meeting Highlights
   March 1, 2007, Marco Polo Hotel, Davao City, Philippines

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5. 4th MWG Meeting Highlights
   March 17, 2006, Grand Regal Hotel, Davao City, Philippines

For the past years, the MWG has provided a venue to facilitate and coordinate all foreign-assisted programs and projects in Mindanao. For the fourth time, the donor community led by World Bank, and its counterparts from the Philippine government led by MEDCo, was convened last 17 March 2006 at the Grand Regal Hotel, Davao City. The meeting yielded a strong consensus for the expansion of MEDCo’s database of ODA Programs and Projects (PAPs) in Mindanao to ensure transparency and public accountability in project monitoring of all ODA PAPs. The database would also serve as a guide for planners, policy makers, and would be implementers of development projects in the island. The database will now include the PAPs implemented by various NGOs in Mindanao.

Also, international donor partners had reaffirmed their commitment to implement more programs in Mindanao with the improving pace of the peace talks. They further supported the implementation of the Mindanao Trust Fund once the signing of the peace agreement with the MILF takes place.

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