Undelivered outputs, shallow outcomes and increasing vulnerability for typhoon survivors are proving that the Philippine government\u2019s rehabilitation work in Yolanda-stricken areas is a tragedy. IBON said this in a presentation of its assessment of four years of rehabilitation, reconstruction and recovery in the typhoon-ravaged Eastern Visayas.<\/p>\n
On the fourth-year of super typhoon Yolanda, IBON reported its findings on the status of calamity survivors in a media forum. Environmental and disaster response centers meanwhile provided insights on their work in hazard-prone provinces such as those affected by Yolanda.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegion 8 or Eastern Visayas has an economy of contradictions,\u201d IBON executive editor and research head Rosario Bella Guzman said. \u201cAlthough the region posted the highest growth rate in terms of gross regional domestic product (GRDP) at 12.4% during 2016, there was an increase in informal work, stark landlessness, and acute poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), there was a 38.7% poverty incidence among the Eastern Visayas population in 2015. While the average unemployment rate of 5.0% in Eastern Visayas in 2013-2017 was lower than the national average of 6.3%, annual average underemployment rate \u2013 pertaining to poor quality work \u2013 was higher in the region than the national average at 27.16 percent. Landless farmers were at 53 percent.<\/p>\n
Guzman also noted that government\u2019s Build Back Better program facilitated full neoliberal or market-oriented reforms in the rehabilitation of Yolanda-stricken areas. \u201cDeclaring the shores as no dwelling zones (NDZ) mandated clearing so-called hazard areas of survivors\u2019 homes and livelihood in favor of business structures such as hotels and resorts. Additionally, the land use policy favored conversion of agricultural lands to other uses,\u201d said Guzman.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis mode of rehabilitation has aggravated not only the surivors\u2019 difficulty in recovery but also their vulnerability to disasters,\u201d Guzman said. \u201cThe so-called rehabilitation projects in fact worsen the people\u2019s diminishing access to resources, livelihoods, public utilities, and social services.\u201d<\/p>\n
Climate justice networks Center for Environmental Concerns (CEC), Citizens\u2019 Disaster Response Center (CDRC), Climate Change Network for Community Initiatives (CCNCI) and Samahang Operasyon Sagip (SOS), whose representatives were the forum\u2019s panelists, stressed on the urgency of a pro-people approach to disaster risk reduction.<\/p>\n
IBON also disclosed its research findings at the Eastern Visayas Disaster Survivors\u2019 Conference in Tacloban City days before the fourth year anniversary of typhoon Yolanda. #\u200b##<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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