Addressing disaster risk reduction through community-rooted interventions in the Philippines

Experience of the Homeless People’s Federation of the Philippines

Bibliographic Data

ID12242513
AuthorsNorberto Carcellar (Philippine Action for Community–led Shelter Initiatives, Inc. (PACSII), Phillipines, corresponding author), Jason Christopher Rayos Co (Philippine Action for Community–led Shelter Initiatives, Inc. (PACSII), Phillipines, corresponding author), Zarina Hipolito (Community Initiatives, corresponding author), Zarina O Hipolito (Philippine Action for Community–led Shelter Initiatives, Inc. (PACSII), Phillipines)
Year2011
Volume23
Issue2
Pages365-381
Publication date2011-07-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Urbanization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0956-2478 • E-ISSN: 1746-0301
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0956247811415581
OpenAlexW2109859178
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited1

This paper describes the support programme developed by the Homeless People’s Federation Philippines, Inc. (HPFPI) for disaster-affected communities, working with its support NGO, the Philippine Action for Community-led Shelter Initiatives, Inc. (PACSII). The programme developed in response to six major disasters and includes: community-rooted data gathering (assessing the severity and scope of destruction and victims’ immediate needs); trust and contact building; support for savings; the registering of community organizations; and identifying needed interventions, including building materials loans for house repairs. It also includes negotiating for land for transit housing and land acquisition for permanent housing construction. The paper also discusses the limits to community processes without government support, and through a case study in the city of Iloilo shows the scale and scope of what can be achieved when local government works with community organizations. The HPFPI and PACSII are also developing disaster risk reduction initiatives by profiling at-risk communities and establishing what can be done to reduce disaster risk. These efforts find impetus in enabling national policies and practice that have shifted from disaster response to disaster risk reduction, and funding for disaster response that can be drawn on for pre-disaster risk reduction

Business · Disaster risk reduction · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Government (linguistics · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Scope (computer science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Medicine · Nursing