The Philippine Employment-Led Disaster Risk Solutions

CIRIACO A. LAGUNZAD III Undersecretary Department of Labor and Employment Republic of the Philippines

Disaster Context
49 PROVINCES PRONE TO TSUNAMI 19 TYPHOONS/YR 100 million persons AFFECTED, $5.9 billion in damage since 1983 14.9 million persons affected by FLOODING, $1.2 billion in damage since 1983 12 DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKES since 1968 EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGES
Unemployment Underemployment Big employment in agriculture, mostly unpaid and informal workers

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Disaster Experience
Typhoons Ketsana & Parma, 2009
Typhoon Washi, 2011
9.3 million persons affected 1,000 casualties P26.2 billion ($650 million) in damage/cost to productive sectors, social sectors (housing, etc.), infrastructure and public sector 1,257 casualties P2.068 billion ($52 million) in damage to property 6.2 million persons affected 1,067 casualties P30 billion ($750 million) in damage to agriculture production and irrigation facilities

Typhoon Bopha, 2012

Disaster Policy and Governance

National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act
Resilience building National Risk Reduction and Management Plan 20112028
Disaster preparedness Disaster response Reconstruction and recovery

Local Operation

Disaster coordinating councils in 17 regions, 80 provinces, 1,609 cities and towns, and 42,956 villages or barangays
Philippine government institutionalized cooperation in pre- and post-disaster response with UN agencies and aid organizations and

Cluster Approach

Employment and Social Protection Strategies

ADJUSTMENT MEASURES PROGRAM
Emergency Employment Cash-for-work with training component 15 days work Wage subsidy Coordination with, and counterpart of, local government units Partnership with International Labor Organization Restoration of productive and livelihood resources With training or enterprise development For informal workers Start/re-start up capital, raw materials, equipment, farm inputs Community based associations, unions, trade federations Employment Facilitation Local employment Overseas employment Reconstruction and Recovery Productive Sectors Infrastructure Social Sectors Resettlement Sectors

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.)

PRODUCTIVE SECTORS (Agriculture, Tourism, Mining, Industry, Trade and Services) SOCIAL and RESETTLEMENT SECTORS (Housing, Health, Education)

$6 billion

$133 million

$167 million

$52 million

$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

The Long View

Address catastrophic and residual risk solutions through relief, recovery and early employment assistance public subsidies for extremely at risk and low-resource workers (informal workers, working poor, urban poor) market based instruments (risk financing, weather-indexed insurance) Develop or strengthen adaptation strategies to build resiliency resilient infrastructures, land use planning, sustainable forestry, resilient and sustainable agriculture, risk mapping/risk information/modeling/risk assessment, rural development planning Address issues of decent work; (Set core standards in government postdisaster emergency employment?) assistance

End of presentation. Thank you.

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