Isagani R Serrano President, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM)
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Transcript of 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)
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
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
After the storm
Frequent flooding
Prolonged drought
V & APH baseline of high poverty/high inequality &
environmental degradation
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
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
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.
PRRM disaster response
PRRM disaster response
PRRM disaster response
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
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
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
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
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
PRRM & disaster-preparedness
PRRM & disaster-preparedness
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.
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).
Starting “sogo-fujo” partnership
Thank you!