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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



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



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



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



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



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



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



End of presentation.

Thank you.

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