Complementary Pathways

The Complementary Pathways (CPath) programme of the Philippines will provide select Rohingya refugees displaced in Southeast Asia with a safe and regulated avenue of admission and stay in the Philippines through education, so that their protection needs and basic rights can be met.Through the programme, the Philippines intends to strengthen the skills and self-reliance capacities of beneficiaries and lead them closer to a durable solution to their displacement – just as with any other refugee hosted in the country.

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The Philippines first pledged to create complementary solutions for refugees during the Global Refugee Forum in 2019. The CPath programme was institutionalized three years later by the Government’s Inter-Agency Committee on the Complementary Pathways Program (IACCP) through the leadership of the Department of Justice Refugees and Stateless Persons Protection Unit (DOJ-RSPPU).

While the initial rollout of the CPath programme is limited to a small batch of participants, the Philippine Government, with the support of UNHCR, intends to forge more partnerships with academic and private sector institutions to expand the coverage and scale of assistance that can be provided to Rohingya refugees.

CPath Academic Partners

Columban College, Inc. (CCI)

De La Salle Araneta University (DLSAU)

San Beda University (SBU)

St. Louis University (SLU)

Tarlac State University (TSU)

University of St. La Salle (USLS)

Columban College, Inc. (CCI)

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“We perceive education, not only as a powerful tool by which economically and socially marginalized individuals can lift themselves out of poverty, but as an act of hope, one that calls for cooperation in turning a barren and a paralyzing indifference into another way of thinking that recognizes our interdependence.”

– CCI President Rev. Fr. Raymann Catindig

De La Salle Araneta University (DLSAU)

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De La Salle Brothers, Inc. (DLSBI), through the De La Salle Araneta University, is the second school to pledge support to the Complementary Pathways programme. Partnerships with the academe and private sector are crucial to a whole-of-society approach to developing durable solutions for refugees.

San Beda University (SBU)

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“San Beda University is glad that we will accommodate Rohingya refugee scholars who will become Bedan students this coming academic year. This has been possible through the collaboration with UNHCR and DOJ.”

– San Beda University Rector-President Rev. Fr. Aloysius Ma. A. Maranan OSB

Tarlac State University (TSU)

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“I have proven many times in my life that the readiness to help others will always have a significant, even life changing, impact on the lives of those who receive it. And TSU is more than willing and ready to extend help to the Rohingya refugees as part of the Complementary Pathways programme.”

– TSU President Arnold Velasco

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