URL: https://youtu.be/vqIyhvdiNYg?feature=shared

TITLE: Kiram: Mindanao is still poor despite heavy funding

AUTHOR: ABS-CBN News

DATE PUBLISHED: March 8, 2016

KEY INFO: Despite being heavily funded in the national budget, senatorial aspirant Princess Jacel Kiram of the Sultanate of Sulu says there is virtually no progress in Mindanao.

URL: https://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/local-news/over-333k-households-poor-in-davao-region-dswd

TITLE: Over 333K households poor in Davao Region: DSWD

AUTHOR: Rojean Grace G. Patumbon

DATE PUBLISHED: Sep 12, 2023

KEY INFO: The Department of Social Welfare and Development-Field Office Davao reported that a significant portion of households in the region consider themselves poor. According to DSWD-Davao Information Officer Peter Paul Vilaluna, a substantial percentage of assessed households self-identified as poor as of July 22.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMsYUShFsOU

TITLE: Marcos: Gov't commited to peace only in Mindanao, but throughout the country l ANC

AUTHOR: ANC 24/7

DATE PUBLISHED: September 3, 2024

KEY INFO: Despite commiting peace on Mindanao, but also commited throughout the country's. With peace to other country's, it could avoid incident's towards each other's.

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/philippines-secession-attempts-force-mindanao-president-ferdinand-marcos-jr-alliance

TITLE: Philippines says it is ready to use force to quell secession attempts as Duterte row deepens

AUTHOR: The Guardian

DATE PUBLISHED: February 5, 2024

KEY INFO: The Philippine government is ready to use “authority and forces” against attempts to divide the nation, after former president Rodrigo Duterte threatened to separate some southern islands from the rest of the archipelago.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFi15NEbuH0

TITLE: One Mindanao: Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte, ma-suspinde sab sa katungdanan

AUTHOR: GMA Regional TV

DATE PUBLISHED: June 7, 2024

KEY INFO: The Davao City Mayor being suspended from his Duty. As the visit of Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. from Davao Del Norte and Davao Del Sur, he calls the president lazy and to leave its seat as a president.

URL: https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1217120

TITLE: BARMM has highest poverty incidence in Mindanao – NAPC

AUTHOR: Che Palicte

DATE PUBLISHED:January 17, 2024

KEY INFO: Poverty incidence is based on the five fundamental rights of the poor which include the right to food, employment and livelihood, quality education, shelter; and basic health services and medicines.
“These are our basis. This is what they lack and that is where we identify the poverty incidence of each province,” Santos said. According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), approximately 19.9 million Filipinos live below the poverty threshold of around PHP12,030 per month for a family of five.

URL: https://beta.pna.gov.ph/articles/1178812

TITLE: BARMM, ILO partner to address child labor issue

AUTHOR: Noel Punzalan

DATE PUBLISHED: July 13, 2022

KEY INFO: The Bangsamoro Youth Commission (BYC) and the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MOLE) said the partnership aims to raise awareness of child labor and increase government and community participation to advance the advocacy to end the practice.

URL: https:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A3G-xfvD5c

TITLE: Peace Documentary 'Great Legacy' on Mindanao Premieres in Davao City

AUTHOR: HWPL Philippines

DATE PUBLISHED: Oct 10, 2022

KEY INFO: Davao City Mayor Baste Duterte congratulated and commended HWPL and SMV on the screening, "By showing people documentaries and films on peace, we may encourage more to be one with us in our peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts for our communities." HWPL’s peace movement in the Philippines started when HWPL Chairman Lee Man-hee, a Korean war veteran, visited Mindanao. He mediated a civilian peace agreement signed by Archbishop Emeritus Fernando Capalla and then Maguindanao Governor Esmael “Toto” G. Mangudadatu on January 14, 2014, in General Santos City. Before the audience of 300 people including politicians, university professors, religious leaders, and students, the representatives promised to cooperate in ceasing the conflict and building peace especially in the Mindanao region which has long suffered the aftereffects of war.

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LGUs’ input emphasized to reduce poverty incidence in Northern Mindanao - The Monitor Mindanao Today

TITLE: LGUs’ input emphasized to reduce poverty incidence in Northern Mindanao

AUTHOR: Franck Dick Rosete

DATE PUBLISHED: December 18, 2023

KEY INFO: Local government units (LGUs) in Northern Mindanao must ensure basic infrastructure to be able to encourage further investors, as creating more jobs and quality jobs for the people is needed to reduce the poverty incidence in the region.

URL: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/video/2018/04/06/unlocking-mindanao-potential

TITLE: Unlocking Mindanao’s Potential

AUTHOR: The World Bank

DATE PUBLISHED: April 6, 2018

KEY INFO: With Mindanao accounting a third of the Philippines’ poor – but only a quarter of its population, unlocking Mindanao’s potential is critical in bringing down poverty in the entire country.

URL: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/infographic/2024/06/04/infographic-philippines-economic-update-june-2024

TITLE: INFOGRAPHIC: Philippines Economic Update June 2024

AUTHOR: The World Bank

DATE PUBLISHED: June 4, 2024

KEY INFO:

Effectively managing inflation, boosting domestic resource mobilization, improving disaster preparedness, response, and recovery, and sustaining inclusive growth in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will be crucial for sustaining growth, enhancing resilience, and achieving long-term development goals.

URL:

https://www.dswd.gov.ph/dswd-mindanao-state-university-forge-partnership-for-children-in-torils/

TITLE: DSWD, Mindanao State University forge partnership for children in ‘torils’

AUTHOR: Digital Media Service

DATE PUBLISHED: March 13, 2024

KEY INFO: Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Rex Gatchalian and Mindanao State University System President Atty. Basari D. Mapupuno, sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the implementation of a project that aims to provide inclusive and culturally-sensitive programs to orphans and children in poverty living in “torils” in Marawi City.

URL:

https://www.iag.org.ph/think/1790-dynamics-of-poverty-politics-and-peace-mindanao-and-beyond

TITLE: Dynamics of Poverty, Politics and Peace: Mindanao and Beyond

AUTHOR: Mohagher Iqbal

DATE PUBLISHED: December 3 2018

KEY INFO: Mindanao faces social exclusion and marginalization, land and natural resources dispossession, ineffective/imposed institutions of governance, law enforcement and service delivery, extreme poverty, deprivation of basic amenities and perceived suppression of Islamic practices, traditional customs and indigenous institutions (and the communist insurgency) thus contributing to its poverty rate.

URL: https://youtu.be/QvhWCOV7HjM?si=8_XIwGTSH6H5l9aM

TITLE: THE CRIES OF THE UNHEARD | A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT POVERTY | PHILIPPINES

AUTHOR: Franz Edward

DATE PUBLISHED: Jan 2, 2019

KEY INFO: Depicts the poor conditions of individuals in Mindanao unable to financially provide for their families due to no access to good jobs and inflation.

URL: https://youtu.be/FdJ2XaA_Alg?si=oEBWraNKuYb79dua

TITLE: Seminar on Poverty Reporting | Davao

AUTHOR: Philippine Press Institute

DATE PUBLISHED: July 10, 2020

KEY INFO: Preserving the culture and traditions in communities who are struggling to financially keep their businesses afloat through development campaigns and providing resources and aid.

URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sittie-Aisah-Isah/publication/359089955_Gross_Regional_Domestic_Product_Population_and_Employment_as_Predictors_of_Poverty_Incidence_in_Northern_Mindanao_Region_A_Prospective_Study_Using_Path_Analysis/links/6227584384ce8e5b4d10920f/Gross-Regional-Domestic-Product-Population-and-Employment-as-Predictors-of-Poverty-Incidence-in-Northern-Mindanao-Region-A-Prospective-Study-Using-Path-Analysis.pdf

TITLE: Gross Regional Domestic Product, Population and Employment as Predictors of Poverty Incidence in Northern Mindanao Region: A Prospective Study Using Path Analysis

AUTHOR: Sittie Aisah A. Isaha, Renato L. Base

DATE PUBLISHED: Feb 13, 2022

KEY INFO: This research paper by Isaha and Base analyzes the employment rates in poverty-stricken areas of Mindanao and the effects of economic growth on poverty rates.