Building Long-Term Community Resilience

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Building Long-Term
Community Resilience
Linking DRR and Village Development in Barangay
Lamba, Legazpi City, Philippines Heifer
International - Philippines www.heiferphils.org
www.heifer.org
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• Project Anduyog for Families Towards
  Values-based Sustainable Development and Disaster
  Management Project

• Objective Improve living condition of poor
  families through values-based and sustainable
  livelihoods and increase peoples coping capacity
  to disaster risks.

(Anduyog is a local term that means in
solidarity with)
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Partnership Model
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Location
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Development Approaches

• Self Help Group Formation and Strengthening
  (Social Capital)
• Sustainable Enterprise Development (Savings and
  Livelihood)
• Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR)
• Integrating CMDRR into LGU
• Development and Investment Plans

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Strategies
Values-based and Technnical Trainings
Placement of Livestock and Inputs
Co-Learning Activities
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CMDRR Related Activities

1. Participatory Community Disaster Risk Assessments
   and Analysis

Disaster Risks Map made by the Community
Women are the most active
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2. Disaster Risk Reduction Measures

• A. Contingency Planning
• - Family Emergency Plan
• - Community Action Plan
• B. Development Planning
• - Preparedness
• - Mitigation
• - Survivability
• - Community Readiness
• - Sustainable Livelihoods
• and Savings

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3. Set Up of DRR Structure
Lamba BDRRMC
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4. Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and
Learning

• DRR Committee and
• BDRRMC conduct
• Quarterly Meeting
• Planning
• Updating Community Records (Population, HHs,
• Family Records)
• Regular Assessment, Sharing Reflection

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5. Provision of Emergency Kits
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Implementing the DRRM Plans
Early Warning Devices
Earthquake Tsunami Drills of Stakeholders
The color-coded flags in the community
Working with Local Authorities
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Sharing and Caring
instead of teaching, I learned a lot
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Results

• Safer communities
• Community
• readiness
• DRRM learning
• resource center
• Villagers facilitates
• DRRM workshops in other towns and villages
• Recognition by authorities

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Lessons Learned

• Continue to Practice
• Work with different stakeholders present in the
  community
• Inclusion of DRR Plans in the MTIP/BDP and AIP
• Enhancing positive values of the people
• Family-based/level DRRM
• Sharing Best Practices
• Processes that will avoid
• Unsustainable DRR design of the project.
• Cultural insensitivity

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• Challenges
• Power struggle with local authorities in the
  initial implementation resulting in
  non-prioritization of DRRM budget from the
  government to pursue community DRRM Plans.
• Future Plans

• Continue to replicate and scale-up DRRM
• Develop a platform for continues DRR learning and
  sharing
• Continue sharing and caring.
• Always engage all stakeholders.
• Develop video documentation skills

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Contact Details

• Heifer International-Philippines
• Unit 307 EnergyOpt Bldg., Prime St., Madrigal
  Business Park 2,
• Alabang, Muntinlupa City 1770 PHILIPPINES
• www.heiferphils.org www.heifer.org
• Telephones 632 659 4181 to 82
• Fax [phone]
• Contact Person
• Hercules C. Parading
• Country Director