Displacement Governance Mapping

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Philippines Marawi Rehabilitation Architecture

Philippines · Housing, land and resettlement · Internal displacement · Institutional arrangement

The Marawi rehabilitation architecture refers to the inter-agency recovery, reconstruction, and rehabilitation arrangements established after the 2017 Marawi siege, including the former Task Force Bangon Marawi, the Bangsamoro Government's own Marawi Rehabilitation Program (MRP), and the Bangsamoro Transition Authority's Special Committee on Marawi Recovery, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation, which now leads oversight. As of early 2026, the Reconstruction and Development Plan for a Greater Marawi Stage 2 infrastructure package stood at roughly 20 percent completion, with its cost raised from PHP 7.52 billion to PHP 9.51 billion and its timeline extended toward March 2028. The Marawi Compensation Board has awarded over PHP 2 billion to more than 1,200 claimants, and BARMM's construction-materials-assistance programme continues to process new batches of displaced households.

Why it matters: Marawi is a critical Southeast Asian case of conflict-related urban displacement. It shows that durable solutions depend not only on ending hostilities but on land, housing, compensation, infrastructure, local governance, and trust. Nine years on, the architecture illustrates a recurring pattern: visible infrastructure completion is used as the public measure of recovery while claimant-level compensation and return remain slower and less legible. The political economy archetype is infrastructure-led recovery with deferred compensation: reconstruction financing and metrics reward built assets over the harder, slower work of resolving individual claims and restoring livelihoods.