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Disaster-preparedness in rural communities Presentation for AMDA Conference 11-19 April 2013 Okayama, Japan Isagani R Serrano President, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM)

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Disaster-preparedness in rural communities Presentation for AMDA Conference 11-19 April 2013 Okayama, Japan. Isagani R Serrano President, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM). Vulnerability & Adaptation (V&A)-Philippines (PH). PH is 3 rd most-at-risk country in the world - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Isagani  R Serrano President, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM)

Disaster-preparedness in rural communities

Presentation for AMDA Conference 11-19 April 2013 Okayama, Japan

Isagani R SerranoPresident, Philippine Rural

Reconstruction Movement (PRRM)

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Vulnerability & Adaptation (V&A)-Philippines (PH)

• PH is 3rd most-at-risk country in the world• Vulnerability: social, economic, ecological • Vulnerability: exposure, susceptibility, coping

ability, adaptive capacity level• Adaptive capacity: low, medium, high

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V & A--PH

• Philippines is visited on average by 20 typhoons a year

• Fragile archipelago – from the mountains to the coasts

• Large population, urban concentration, dense human settlements along the coasts

• High poverty, high inequality, environmental degradation

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After the storm

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Frequent flooding

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Prolonged drought

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V & APH baseline of high poverty/high inequality &

environmental degradation

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V & A in rural areas

• Majority of the poor in rural areas• Differential impacts of disasters: poor gets hit

the hardest most of the time

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V & A in rural areas

• But poor people are not totally helpless, they have their own way of coping with tragedies.

• The poor are good at surviving, survival is their everyday reality---negative resilience/adaptive capacity

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PRRM disaster response

• Since the 80’s: • MAN-MADE---Sugar Crisis in Negros

Occidental 1986; Mining spill Mindoro Island 1996

• NATURAL---N. Luzon Earthquake 1990; Mount Pinatubo Eruption 1991; Tropical Storm Ondoy/Ketsana Metro Manila 2009; Tropical Storm Sendong and Typhoon Pablo in Mindanao, 2012.

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PRRM disaster response

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PRRM disaster response

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PRRM disaster response

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PRRM & disaster-preparedness

• Automatic response in PRRM sites from the area managers, PRRM chapter, PRRM partner people’s organizations in cooperation with cooperation with local government, mainstream & social media, others

• Anticipatory: CDRR & other public awareness activities; hazards & risks mapping; integration of CDRR in local planning & budgeting

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PRRM & disaster-preparedness

EMERGENCY RESPONSE >formation of in-house QRT; >mobilization of volunteers; >networking/cooperation with other organizations to

leverage resources; >provision of other forms of assistance, e.g. transport,

shelter, relief goods (food, water & sanitation, medicines), volunteers

>fundraising for relief & rehabilitation & reconstruction

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PRRM & disaster-preparedness

EDUCATION & ADVOCACY (Strategic response) >Climate & Disaster Risk Reduction (CDRR) Course

through the PRRM Conrado Benitez Institute for Sustainability (CBIS)

>Advocacy/lobby for policy & legislation & budget, eg, Climate Change Act of 2009, Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Act of 2011; Alternative Budget Initiative (ABI) since 2006; local planning & budgeting

>Crafting of national & local CDRR action plans

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PRRM & disaster-preparedness

• Building a resilient local economy: focus on social enterprises (SE)

• SE: multiple bottom lines (making money, helping the poor, protecting the environment) & redistributive wealth creation

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PRRM & disaster-preparedness

• Food security • Shortening the food mile• Reducing carbon footprint thru, e.g.,

organic/sustainable agriculture• “Agropolis”---bringing the city to the farm,

and the farm to the city: every human settlement a place of dignity and happiness

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PRRM & disaster-preparedness

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PRRM & disaster-preparedness

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Valuing aid

• Humanitarian aid-giving is usually taken by aid-recipients as an act of basic humanity.

• Aid can foster cooperation or bayanihan (“sogo-fujo”) or sometimes aid-dependency among affected communities.

• Efficiency, transparency, accountability, people’s participation in aid operations.

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Valuing aid

• Emergency relief, by nature is short-lived, but can be used to set the basis for long-term recovery. Example: food- or cash-for-work schemes that enable resumption of production and livelihood.

• Aid can “kill” local markets or can be a means for the local economy to “bounce back” (resilience).

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Starting “sogo-fujo” partnership

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Thank you!