Job-led growth after Typhoon Bopha

Working Out of Disasters: Job-led Growth after Typhoon Bopha (Pablo)

The Philippines experiences at least 20 typhoons in a year and much can be learned on the importance of putting livelihood at the forefront of recovery. The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Australian Government will bring together community leaders from areas hit by Typhoon Bopha (also named Pablo) in a forum to discuss a people and job-centered approach to disaster response.

On 4 December 2012, the province of Davao Oriental experienced the wrath of Typhoon Pablo (internationally name Bopha) leaving in its aftermath devastated communities with both lives and livelihoods washed away. But surviving a natural disaster is one thing and surviving the life after the disaster is another.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) with the support of the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), implemented a livelihood recovery initiative with the goal of rebuilding what were lost, restore sources of incomes, and overcome the trauma of losing family members. Together, with government, local stakeholders and community leaders, the programme has been relentless in ensuring that longer-term impact can be sustained even after relief efforts have moved on.

The ILO and the Australian Government will bring together community leaders from areas hit by Typhoon Bopha (also named Pablo) in a forum to discuss a people and job-centered approach to disaster response.

The forum “Working out of disasters: Job-led growth after Typhoon Bopha (Pablo)” was conducted on 26 September 2014 at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City.

Speakers

Messages

Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines
Mr Geoff King, Counsellor, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Embassy

Keynote Address

Hon. Rosalinda Baldoz, Secretary, Department of Labor and Employment

Typhoon Bopha (Pablo) experience

Strategies and lessons from ILO’s response to Typhoon Bopha (Pablo)
Mr Jedel Ervin Tabamo, Project Coordinator
Decent work and social protection in post-calamity interventions
Ms Esther Go Albino, General Manager, Community Forestry Project, Taytayan Multi-Purpose Cooperative Ecological Park
Back to work, back to school
Reconstruction and climate resilient designs
Eng Roel Casenas Jr., Project Coordinator, Green Mindanao
Hope and dignity: people and job-centered recovery
Fr Darwey Clark, Director, Lambajon Social Action Center
Convergence in rebuilding communities through enterprise development
Atty Joffrey Suyao, Regional Director, Department of Labor and Employment-Region XI