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Vocational skills training for out-of-school youth
Improving chances: Vocational skills training for the out-of-school youth of Bantayan Island, Northern Cebu
Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) severely hampered key industries in Bantayan Island, Northern Cebu, including poultry farming and a burgeoning tourism industry. The International Labour Organization (ILO) not only contributed to the two industries’...
Fix and repair of the Ormoc City Health Office
Rebuilding communities: Quick fix and repair of the Ormoc City health office
The public health system of a municipality is crucial to ensuring the physical well-being of its residents. When Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) hit Ormoc City, it reduced the functionality of Rural Health Units (RHU) and Barangay Health Stations...
Vocational skills training
Industrial labour opportunities: Vocational skills training-cum-production with the Provincial Government of Cebu
The magnitude of Super Typhoon Haiyan’s (Yolanda) destruction meant that the amount of reconstruction work required, remained enormous even months after the typhoon struck. The increased demand for skilled workers, including welders, was an...
Repair of community potable water system
Water is life: Repair of community potable water system and reforestation of community-managed watershed in Pinabacdao, Samar
The supply of potable water in the municipality of Pinabacdao, Samar was severely impeded by the successive impacts of Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby) and Tropical Storms Jangmi (Seniang) and Mekkhala (Amang). Because both...
Green charcoal briquette production and sales enterprise
Environment-friendly enterprise: Green charcoal briquette production and sales enterprise in Tolosa, Leyte
The enterprise focused on the production of green charcoal briquettes from cellulosic waste such as coconut husk and shell, rice hull and straw, grass, and twigs, all of which are in abundant supply in an agricultural – and post-disaster – setting....
Restoration of mangroves damaged by typhoon
Climate-resilient communities: Restoration of mangroves damaged by Typhoons Ruby and Seniang in Biri, Northern Samar
Two 10-hectare areas, one in each Barangay, were the sites of the mangrove restoration. A total of 20,000 propagules were harvested from nearby mangrove areas and planted. Also, at least 4,000 propagules of alternative species — unsuitable for...
Local resource-based works and skills training
Working out of disaster: Coron local resource-based works and skills training for communities affected by super typhoon Haiyan
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) partnered with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Regional Office 4B to enhance the livelihood opportunities of people in Barangays Decalachao, Guadalupe and Marcilla in...
Public structures and recycling of debris
Safety first: Demolition of earthquake damaged public structures and recycling of debris in Loon, Bohol
When a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Philippines in October 2013, the Municipality of Loon in Bohol suffered the most in terms of number of totally and partially damaged infrastructure, both public and private. The devastation was exacerbated...
Livelihood recovery
Impact of livelihood recovery initiatives on reducing vulnerability to human trafficking and illegal recruitment: Lessons from Typhoon...
This report examines human trafficking and illegal recruitment in Typhoon Haiyan-affected areas and evaluates and how IOM and ILO livelihood interventions assisted vulnerable workers. This report seeks to contribute to the understanding of the...
COP 21
How Philippines recovered from disaster through decent work
In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, and as climate change exacerbates weather-related disasters around the globe, the ILO is working with local communities to make them more resilient to future storms. At the forthcoming Paris Climate Conference (COP...
Social protection
Real life, real challenges, real protection: Life stories of worker-beneficiaries and experiences in social protection availment
This document features eight stories of people’s experiences with social protection coverage. Contrary to the usual approach of examining project effectiveness, this document takes a people-centred approach as it examines social protection coverage...
Sustainable livelihood and recovery
Sustainable livelihood and recovery for Super Typhoon Haiyan-affected communities
This document summarizes the achievements of these donor projects and presents examples of the numerous sub-projects that were implemented by the ILO in the four affected regions (Eastern, Central and Western Visayas and MIMAROPA) in the aftermath...
Generating emergency employment
Generating emergency employment and recovering sustainable livelihoods: Final project fact sheet
In support of the Philippine government and local communities affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), the international humanitarian community prepared a plan with a number of strategic objectives to govern and prioritize the international...
Generating emergency employment and recovering sustainable livelihoods in the Philippines: Norways contribution to the livelihoods...
Project PHI/13/05/NOR - Evaluation consultants: Christoph David Weinmann and Felicissimo David
Disaster response
ILO Haiyan (Yolanda) culminating event and panel on disaster response
Introduction and panel 1 on Lessons across borders: Learnings from disaster response in Japan and the Philippines, the first panel discussion during the culminating event "Strengthening Partnerships: Livelihood at the Forefront of Recovery after...
Disaster response
Highlights of the ILO Haiyan (Yolanda) project culminating event
The ILO Emergency Employment and Livelihood Recovery Project, for Super Typhoon Haiyan locally known as Yolanda, gathered donors, partners, and beneficiaries to conclude its disaster response work with a culminating event "Strengthening...
Disaster response
ILO Haiyan (Yolanda) panel on disaster response and livelihood
Panel discussion 1 on Lessons across borders: Learnings from disaster response in Japan and the Philippines and Panel discussion 2 on Spearheading sustainability and liveli hood recovery through collaboration during the culminating event...
Disaster response
ILO Haiyan (Yolanda) on livelihood and social protection
Panel discussion 2 on Spearheading sustainability and livelihood recovery through collaboration and Panel discussion 3 on Social protection in Haiyan disaster response during the culminating event "Strengthening Partnerships: Livelihood at the...
Disaster response
Decent work: An immediate response to Haiyan
Almost 6 million workers were affected when Haiyan (Yolanda) struck the Philippines in November 2013. Of these, 2.6 million workers were already in vulnerable employment and living near or at the poverty line even before the super typhoon. The ILO...
Disaster response
Rebuilding communities after Haiyan in Northern Cebu
When Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) hit Northern Cebu it destroyed public and private infrastructure, wiped out livelihoods, and disrupted productive activities. The ILO focused its efforts on the industries of tourism, agriculture and construction,...