Loading…
Politics and governance · report
Setting Baselines
Preparing the BARMM Electorate for the First Ever Regional Parliamentary Elections in 2025
- Year
- 2024
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 54
- Availability
- Free to read
Published free: the link opens the whole book.
About the book
A survey report on the voters of the BARMM ahead of its first regional parliamentary elections. It profiles likely voters, how ready they are for the polls, where they get news of political parties, and the issues that drive their choices.
The Institute for Autonomy and Governance (IAG) surveyed 3,072 likely voters across the BARMM from 29 April to 14 May 2024, a year before the region's first parliamentary elections. This report sets out what they found. Its chapters profile likely voters, measure how ready they are for the polls, trace where they hear about political parties, list what voters want and why they would back a party, and close with opportunities and the survey method.
Most voters knew little about the new system. 58.4% said they knew nothing of it and 24% very little, and nearly 9 in 10 knew little about the party-list, district and sectoral seats of the 80-member parliament. Family and friends, social media and barangay officials were the main sources of news; print barely figured. Livelihood projects, education, jobs, and peace and order topped voters' concerns, well ahead of violent extremism.
The report urges COMELEC, the Bangsamoro Electoral Office and civil society to run voter education through social media, radio and local languages, using pictures and video over text.
From drive.google.com.
Cover from the publisher’s PDF, shown to identify the book; its rights stay with the publisher.
On the same shelf
1985Out of print
The Contemporary Muslim Movement in the PhilippinesCesar Adib Majul
Majul’s short account of the Moro struggle of the 1970s and the rise of the Moro National Liberation Front, written for readers abroad.
2000In print
Making MindanaoPatricio N. Abinales
How Cotabato and Davao were drawn into the Philippine state in the first half of the twentieth century, through the datus and settler elites who learned to work it, and what that made of Mindanao politics.
2010In print
Orthodoxy and History in the Muslim-Mindanao NarrativePatricio N. Abinales
Essays questioning the received story of the Moro struggle, the unbroken resistance from Spain to the present, and asking what the record shows instead.
1995Self-published
Aristocrats of the Malay RaceNasser A. Marohomsalic
A history of the Moro peoples written from within, from the sultanates to the MNLF, by a Maranao lawyer; printed by the author and much cited in the region. Revised 2001.
1994Out of print
The Minoritization of the Indigenous Communities of Mindanao and the Sulu ArchipelagoB. R. (Rudy) Rodil
How the Moro and Lumad peoples became minorities in their own homeland: the land laws, the resettlement programmes and the migration from Luzon and the Visayas, with the figures.
1993Out of print
The Lumad and Moro of MindanaoB. R. (Rudy) Rodil
A short report for an international readership on the two peoples displaced by the settlement of Mindanao and the state of their claims in the early 1990s.
More from Institute for Autonomy and Governance
2013Out of print
Transition to the Bangsamoroed. Benedicto R. Bacani
A 326-page collection published a year after the 2012 Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro, on the move from the ARMM to a new Bangsamoro political entity. Edited by IAG founder Benedicto Bacani, with contributions including Peter Koeppinger, Crisanto Cayon and Kathleen Geslani.
2017Free to read
Research on Youth Vulnerability to Violent Extremism in the Autonomous Region in Muslim MindanaoInstitute for Autonomy and Governance
A survey-based study, done with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, of how vulnerable young people in the ARMM are to violent extremism. It aims to give government agencies and communities an early picture to shape their response.
2019Free to read
Research on Traditional Madaris in ARMM and Adjacent RegionsInstitute for Autonomy and Governance
A baseline study of the traditional madrasah system in the ARMM and nearby regions, funded by the Australian Government. It gathers data meant to guide public policy on traditional madaris and on the education system of the new BARMM.
2020Free to read
Looking Back, Moving ForwardStarjoan Villanueva
A study of how civil society organisations take part in politics and governance in the new BARMM during the transition period. It takes stock of what civil society has gained, the obstacles it faces in dealing with leaders and institutions, and where it can do more.
2021Free to read
Balik-Islam in the PhilippinesInstitute for Autonomy and Governance
A study, done with the UP Institute of Islamic Studies, of Filipinos who convert or 'revert' to Islam, building a profile of converts and their reasons for conversion. It also gathers Muslim and non-Muslim opinions on Islam and looks at converts' links to violent extremist groups.
2022Free to read
Youth Vulnerability to Violent ExtremismInstitute for Autonomy and Governance
A follow-up to IAG's 2017 study that tracks how urban Bangsamoro youth's views and attitudes toward violent extremism have changed. It adds the views of young people living in conflict-affected rural areas of the BARMM.