Farida Tiboron Mangcaan is head of office for the Community and Family Services International (CFSI) Sub Office in Iligan, located in the northern Mindanao area of the Philippines.

She is a social worker committed to social justice, peace, and development, with interests focusing on humanitarian action, emergency management, child protection, mental health and psychosocial support, nutrition and food security, among other issues.

CFSI is a humanitarian organization committed to peace and social development, that works primarily in the Asia-Pacific region.

Farida’s primary responsibilities are leading CFSI’s field operations in northern Mindanao; serving as focal point on issues related to child protection, preventing sexual exploitation and abuse, and sexual harassment; and participating in CFSI’s Emergency Response Team.She leads field-level implementation of the Marawi COVID Recovery Project that CFSI leads, with funding support of DFAT-Australia.

The project is designed to enable 4,000 households to recover from the early economic and psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through collective efforts to prevent and respond to infection, improve the quality of life, strengthen relations between people, and promote greater prospects for peace.

Farida also lectures and leads seminars on a wide range of topics, including social work practice, disaster risk reduction and management, child protection and gender-based violence.