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Rebuilding communities: Quick fix and repair of the Ormoc City health office

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...

Improving chances: Vocational skills training for the out-of-school youth of Bantayan Island, Northern Cebu

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’...

Helping one’s self: Repair of livelihood and technical skills (LiTeS) training centre in Bogo City, Northern Cebu

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.

Industrial labour opportunities: Vocational skills training-cum-production with the Provincial Government of Cebu

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...

Dignified work: Construction and repair of damaged schools in Sta Fe, Bantayan Island

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).

Rebuilding communities: Construction and repair of damaged schools in Camotes Islands

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...

Connecting communities: Causeway reconstruction for the farming communities of San Remigio

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: Renovation of the mortuary at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Centre

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...

Climate-resilient communities: Restoration of mangroves damaged by Typhoons Ruby and Seniang in Biri, Northern Samar

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...

Environment-friendly enterprise: Green charcoal briquette production and sales enterprise in Tolosa, Leyte

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....

Water is life: Repair of community potable water system and reforestation of community-managed watershed in Pinabacdao, Samar

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...

Working out of disaster: Coron local resource-based works and skills training for communities affected by super typhoon Haiyan

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...

Homegrown solution: Communal vegetable production and skills training on support infrastructure maintenance in Sto Rosario, Bohol

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...

Safety first: Demolition of earthquake damaged public structures and recycling of debris in Loon, Bohol

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...

Impact of livelihood recovery initiatives on reducing vulnerability to human trafficking and illegal recruitment: Lessons from Typhoon...

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...

How Philippines recovered from disaster through decent work

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...

Real life, real challenges, real protection: Life stories of worker-beneficiaries and experiences in social protection availment

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 for Super Typhoon Haiyan-affected communities

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...

Integrated livelihood recovery for super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) affected communities: Final project fact sheet

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.

Economic recovery: Emergency employment and livelihood recovery and development. Final project fact sheet

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).