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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 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’...
Repair of livelihood and technical skills
Helping one’s self: Repair of livelihood and technical skills (LiTeS) training centre in Bogo City, Northern Cebu
Training in Bogo City’s Livelihood and Technical Skills (LiTeS) Training Center was hampered when Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) made landfall in Northern Cebu. In addition, the welding training building was severely damaged.
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...
Construction and repair of damaged schools
Dignified work: Construction and repair of damaged schools in Sta Fe, Bantayan Island
Providing livelihood opportunities and reconstructing community assets often go hand in hand. Such was the case in Bantayan Island, Northern Cebu during rebuilding efforts after Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda).
Construction and repair of damaged schools
Rebuilding communities: Construction and repair of damaged schools in Camotes Islands
The Camotes group of islands received a surge of relief aid, but the ILO realized that public assets restoration was an area that needed more attention. Thus, the ILO worked with the International Mission Board (IMB), the Baptist Global Response...
Reconstruction for the farming communities
Connecting communities: Causeway reconstruction for the farming communities of San Remigio
Damaged roads hampered trading activities in many Super Typhoon Haiyan-affected areas. A solution to this problem in San Remigio, Northern Cebu lay in the hands of the residents themselves who participated in rebuilding efforts.
Rebuilding for health
Rebuilding for health: Renovation of the mortuary at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Centre
Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) destroyed the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Centre’s (EVRMC) facilities. Recognizing that health facilities are a community’s lifeline, the International Labour Organization (ILO), in partnership with the Latter-Day...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Communal vegetable production and skills training
Homegrown solution: Communal vegetable production and skills training on support infrastructure maintenance in Sto Rosario, Bohol
Working with the ILO, 79 Sto Rosario Farmer's Association members (43 women and 36 men) established and managed a one-hectare communal garden, and planted cash crops with short gestation periods (tomatoes, eggplants and string beans) to secure their...
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...
Livelihood recovery
Integrated livelihood recovery for super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) affected communities: Final project fact sheet
Through the contribution of the Government of Japan, the ILO immediately worked with the Philippine government and humanitarian partners in providing emergency employment in typhoon affected workers.
Emergency employment and livelihood recovery
Economic recovery: Emergency employment and livelihood recovery and development. Final project fact sheet
The ILO programme components set out an immediate and longer term integrated response to address the livelihood needs of those affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda).