Control Number – identifies the specific displacement incident and all other reports
related to it.
The regional office where the IDPs originated shall provide the specific control
number of displacement incidence. The regional offices or hosts where the IDPs
evacuated and later resettled or reintegrated shall adopt the original control
number and forward all reports to the same office (regional office of origin).
It will follow the format - IDP-Region-Year-Number. Example: IDP-XII-2013-001
Where:
IDP
Region
Year
Number
Internally Displaced Person
Refers to the region of origin of the IDP
Refers to the year of displacement
Refers to sequential number of displacement incidence
Date Taken – refers to the date the monitoring was actually taken. It will be in the
form of Month-Day-Year. Example: January 1, 2014
Place of Incident – refers to the specific place/s where the cause of displacement
occurred. It will take the form of barangay, city/municipality, and province.
In case where the place of incident occurred in one city/municipality with five or
less barangays, enumerate all places otherwise just indicate the city/municipality.
In case where the place of incident occurred in two or more cities/municipalities in
the same province name the province where the said cities/municipalities are
located.
Date of Incident – refers to the date when the cause of displacement took place.
Start of Displacement – refers to the date when the displacement commenced or
the date when the first instance/movement of displacement occurred.
End of Displacement - refers to the date when the displacement ended.
Causes of Displacement – refers to the incident that triggered the internal
displacement. Multiple selections are allowed, i.e. select more than one for both
natural and human-induced causes.
Name of Incident (if any) - refers to the generally accepted ascription of specific
incident that triggered the displacement. Example: “Yolanda” or “Zamboanga siege”
Group Involved – in case of human-induced causes (conflict or developmentrelated displacements), refers to the parties to the conflict or parties involved in the
cause of displacement.
Details – are brief explanation of the cause of displacement. Example: In case of
earthquake, describe the magnitude, intensity, etc.
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