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The Philippine
Employment-Led
Disaster Risk Solutions
CIRIACO A. LAGUNZAD III
Undersecretary
Department of Labor and Employment
Republic of the Philippines
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Disaster Context
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49 PROVINCES
PRONE
TO TSUNAMI
19 TYPHOONS/YR
100 million persons AFFECTED,$5.9 billion in damage
since 1983
14.9 million personsaffected by FLOODING,
$1.2 billion in damage
since 1983
12 DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKES
since 1968
EMPLOYMENT
CHALLENGES• Unemployment
• Underemployment
•
Big employment inagriculture, mostly
unpaid and informal
workers
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Disaster Experience
• 9.3 million persons affected• 1,000 casualties
• P26.2 billion ($650 million) indamage/cost to productive sectors, socialsectors (housing, etc.), infrastructure andpublic sector
TyphoonsKetsana &
Parma, 2009
• 1,257 casualties
• P2.068 billion ($52 million) in damage toproperty
TyphoonWashi, 2011
• 6.2 million persons affected• 1,067 casualties
• P30 billion ($750 million) in damage toagriculture production and irrigationfacilities
TyphoonBopha, 2012
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Disaster Policy and Governance
National Disaster RiskReduction andManagement Act
Resilience building
Local Operation
Cluster Approach
•Disaster preparedness
•Disaster response
•Reconstruction and recovery
• Disaster coordinatingcouncils in 17 regions, 80provinces, 1,609 cities andtowns, and 42,956 villagesor barangays
• Philippine government
institutionalized cooperation inpre- and post-disaster responsewith UN agencies and aidorganizations and
National Risk Reduction and Management Plan 2011-
2028
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Employment and Social Protection
Strategies
EmergencyEmployment
•Cash-for-work with
training component•15 days’ work
•Wage subsidy
•Coordination with,and counterpart of,local governmentunits
•Partnership withInternational LaborOrganization
Restoration of productive and
livelihood resources
•With training or
enterprisedevelopment
•For informal workers
•Start/re-start upcapital, rawmaterials,equipment, farm
inputs•Community based
associations, unions,trade federations
EmploymentFacilitation
•Local employment
•Overseasemployment
Reconstruction andRecovery
•Productive Sectors
• Infrastructure
•Social Sectors
•Resettlement Sectors
ADJUSTMENT MEASURES PROGRAM
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Employment and Social Protection Strategies :
Reconstruction/Recovery
SECTOR RECOVERY/RECONSTUCTION NEEDS
Area 1
(Davao Oriental)
Area1
(Compostela Valley)
INFRASTRUCTURE
(Roads, Bridges, Water Facilities,
Telecommunication, etc.)
$6 billion $133 million
PRODUCTIVE SECTORS (Agriculture,
Tourism, Mining, Industry, Trade and
Services)
$167 million $52 million
SOCIAL and RESETTLEMENT SECTORS
(Housing, Health, Education)
$162 million $233 million
SOURCES OF FUNDS:
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund
Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund
General Appropriations of National Government Agencies
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The Long View
Address catastrophic andresidual risk solutions through
• relief, recovery and early
employment assistance• public subsidies for extremely
at risk and low-resourceworkers (informal workers,working poor, urban poor)
• market based instruments (riskfinancing, weather-indexed
insurance)
Develop or strengthen adaptationstrategies to build resiliency
• resilient infrastructures, land use
planning, sustainable forestry,resilient and sustainableagriculture, risk mapping/riskinformation/modeling/riskassessment, rural developmentplanning
Address issues of decent work; (Setcore standards ingovernment post-
disasteremergencyemployment?)assistance
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End of presentation.
Thank you.
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