Advocacy and Media (MAM) Awards
The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) launched the Migration Advocacy and Media (MAM) Awards in 2011 to give recognition to media for their significant role in information dissemination and advocacy of migration issues and challenges. Conceived as one of the activities for the celebration of the Month of Overseas Filipinos and International Migrants Day in the Philippines every December, the MAM Awards recognize the positive and significant contributions of media outlets, institutions and practitioners based in the Philippines and abroad, in the fields of print, radio, movie and television, advertising and internet. Media entries and advocates should have raised public awareness on migration issues (i.e., human trafficking, illegal recruitment, brain drain and brain circulation, remittance flows, political crisis, families left behind by migrants, etc.), advocated the cause of and promoted a positive image of Filipinos overseas.