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Farm-to-market road rehabilitation
Making connections: Farm-to-market road rehabilitation in San Isidro, Leyte
The Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)-damaged farm-to-market road in San Isidro, Leyte severely hampered the farmers’ agricultural activities. In response, the International Labour Organization (ILO) supported the Municipal Government of San Isidro in...
Skills training on food processing and carpentry
Recovery via employment: Skills training on food processing and carpentry in the Province of Leyte
Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) devastated farming communities in Leyte province, resulting in massive loss of livelihoods. The International Labour Organization (ILO) and local agencies immediately recognized a need to provide alternative sources of...
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...
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...
Livelihoods and income generation
Emergency and recovery support to restart livelihoods, income generation and food self-sufficiency: Final project fact sheet
Emergency employment activities were at the forefront of ILO disaster response because of the magnitude and urgency to make humanitarian relief goods and services physically accessible, and reduce health risks.
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
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) 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
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...
Emergency and recovery support to restart livelihoods, income generation and food self-sufficiency in Leyte province affected by Typhoon...
Project PHI/14/01/UKM - Evaluation consultants: John Connell and Arvy Origenes
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,...
Disaster response
Paving the way to recovery after the Bohol earthquake
On 15 October 2013, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Bohol, which affected 348,507 people and damages amounted to Php1.38 billion. The ILO through its Employment Investment Intensive Programme (EIIP) addressed quick recovery of jobs and livelihoods...
Disaster response
Paving the way to recovery after the Bohol earthquake: A training video
This training video on the Employment Investment Intensive Programme (EIIP) features quick recovery of jobs and livelihoods after the Bohol earthquake in October 2015, through emergency employment and community based livelihood support. The ILO...
Haiyan: Planting seeds of the recovery
A year after Super Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as "Yolanda" devastated parts of The Philippines, thousands of people whose lives depend on agriculture are still trying to cope. It wasn't only that farm fields cultivated for years were destroyed;...
Haiyan: Building back better and greener
Nearly 8,000 people were killed and nearly 15 million others were displaced when Typhoon Haiyan tore into The Philippines a year ago. In the aftermath of the country's worst-ever natural disaster, one of the most urgent challenges was restoring a...
Emergency employment and livelihood recovery
Emergency and Recovery Support to Restart Livelihoods, Income Generation and Food Self-sufficiency in Leyte Province - Department for...
In partnership with the Department for International Development (DFID), the International Labour Organization (ILO) responded through emergency employment, local resource-based work, skills training and enterprise development in Super Typhoon...
Good Practice
Emergency and recovery support to restart livelihoods in Leyte province - Final Evaluation
Emergency employment and livelihood recovery
Emergency Employment and Livelihood Recovery for Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda): Ormoc City
The International Labour Organization (ILO) through the support of the Department for International Development (DFID) UK, has worked in Ormoc City in response to Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) since March 2014.