The mainstreaming of child’s rights programming in community based disaster management is a project aimed to mainstream Child’s Rights Programming in Community-Based Disaster Management. BALAY with the Center for Disaster Preparedness and the Save the Children UK initiated this project along with the local community leaders of GINAPALADTAKA. The project has required process of series of consultation to be involved by the different stakeholders.

Believing that education is a right and considering that in Pikit, education is a privilege, BALAY initiated the adopt-a-school scheme in its educational support to the elementary children.

BALAY REHABILITATION Center in partnership with the House Committee on Civil, Political and Human Rights organized a forum to start a policy reform campaign for humanitarian protection on December 8, 2003. Resource persons came from the Department of National Defense (DND), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Oxfam-GB. Seven civil society organizations and Bapa Joe Akmad, leader of the Mindanao People's Caucus, participated in the discussion. The secretaries of five committees of the House of Representatives also attended the event.

Guided by the theme "Strengthening Humanitarian Protection for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Conflict Affected Communities," the forum led to the formation of a technical working group that would craft a bill to enforce the rights of IDPs, international humanitarian law and disaster management. The AFP and the DSWD have also committed to issue guidelines to protect civilians in times of armed conflict.

On International Human Rights Day on December 10, 2003, the Presidential Human Rights Committee (PHRC) passed a resolution urging the DND, DSWD and the DILG to observe the provisions of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (UNGPID). Upon the efforts of BALAY, the House Committee on Civil, Political and Human Rights approved the resolution adopting UNGPID on January 27, 2004.

The following is the challenge raised by Atty. Rene Sarmiento of the PHRC for the government to enact a law that will make effective and forceful the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

Little Barangay in Pagalungan, Maguindanao might be showing the way home for evacuees in the war-torn central Mindanao.

In the year 2000, Brgy. Kudal was abandoned by its residents at the height of fierce fighting during former president Estrada's "all-out war" against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). At least two army detachments were then set up in the village, intended to protect the village but unfortunately turning out to be a disincentive for the villagers to return.