ENABLED PROJECT
Post-Haiyan: Enhancing Resilience through Disability-Inclusive Community-Based Disaster Risk Management in Tabogon, Cebu
Duration: June 2015 – November 2017
The ENABLED Project is one of the pioneering initiatives currently being implemented in the Philippines that seek to mainstream disability perspectives into disaster risk management programming. Specifically, the project promotes disability inclusive community-based disaster risk management in the Municipality of Tabogon, Northern Cebu, a town heavily affected by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 and is also among the municipalities in the province which have the highest prevalence of disabilities within its population. As the project centrepiece, the initiative adopts the Purok System, an internationally renowned participatory whole-of-community-approach to disaster risk reduction, as a means through which disability inclusion can be facilitated. The project is funded by Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB), a German relief and social-welfare organisation engaged in a wide range of social service provision in Germany and abroad.
People
Erlinda T. Parame
Project Coordinator
Marivic Y. Codinera
Training Officer
Gabrile Anthony G. Labra
Community Organizer
: gabrileanthonylabra@gmail.com
Jasrima G. Casim
Community Organizer
Janette Jane Y. Pasicaran
Community Organizer
Partners
WOMENACT4DRM/CCA
Women’s Action for Community Resilience through promoting gender-responsive budgeting in disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change adaptation
Duration: June 2016 – March 2017
This project aims to promote participatory gender-responsive budgeting towards building the resilience of selected at-risk coastal communities in Ubay, Bohol. With many community-based disaster risk management initiatives being undertaken in the Philippines, less attention has been given to how budgeting processes reflect social relations of inequality, such as gender, and how intervening in such processes can make DRM/CCA programs of local governments more responsive to the specific circumstances of women and men. Through capacity building and participatory knowledge production on developing gender-responsive budgets, the project expects to make an impact on empowering women to become active resilience leaders in their respective communities as co-equal partners of men. Through increasing women’s direct participation, the project envisions to create more gender-inclusive CBDRM practices by engendering the local budgeting process for DRM/CCA programming. The project is currently being funded by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.
People
Fiscalina Nolasco, Ph.D.
Project Coordinator
Beryl P. Tranco
Field Officer
Partners
