TACLOBAN RECOVERY:TDA IN HOUSINGRESETTLEMENTL A D Y L Y N L I M M A NG A D A
U P T A CL O B A N

SUPER TYPHOONHAIYAN (local name: Yolanda)• In 2013, S.T Haiyan a Category 5 super typhoon,registered as one of the world's most devastating
disasters, with close to US$2 trillion es timateddamages and 6300 deaths• Tacloban City, home to around 250,000 individuals
and the center of commerce of the Eastern
Visayas region which was severely damaged bytyphoon Haiyan

Photo: Philippine Star -AFP / Philippe Lopez

POST-DISASTERRESPONSE• The Tacloban city government
allocated around 80 ha of land in thenorthern district (henceforth, TaclobanNorth), about 40 km away the citycenter, as ‘s afe areas ’ to build new
settlements, where survivors who used
to live in coastal zones (now declared‘no- build’ areas) could relocate.

• President Benigno Aquino III
committed to the slogan of buildingback better and declared a “40 m nobuild zone” policy to ban theconstruction of houses within 40
meters from the coastline.
• Then later the Department of Public
Works and Highways (DPWH) put up
the border sign poles in February 2014
(Yap, 2014; Yamada, 2017).
• The 40 meter zone was densely
populated by illegal houses, about
14,600 houses were replaced inTacloban North.

HOUSING &RESETTLEMENT• Tacloban North is now home to at least 31
permanent Pabahay villages/ communities
dispersed across eleven barangays (villagelevel communities).
• NHA- developed 17 of these Pabahay sites
with 14,479 housing units.
• Some 11,100 houses have already either beenraffled or awarded to select beneficiaries; yetless than 65% were occupied and used as ofJune 2020.

PABAHAYSTRUGGLES• far dis tance from their sources of livelihoods• people's lack of acces s to potable water and reproductive healthproducts and services.
• the low quality and small sizes of the houses• the exces s ive delay in the construction of critical infrastructures, suchas school buildings ;• and the poor communication and lack of transparency in resettlement
processes

TDA EXPERIENCE
Local government officials disclosed intensive consensus-building process took place in atransdisciplinary manner involving 138 barangay chiefs, local government officers,humanitarian/development workers and the affected people.
They deliberated and agreed to build new residential/relocation areas in the northern Tacloban
district (locally known as Pabahay) with spaces for commercial shops and provision of basicsocial services such as schools, health centers etc.
As of 2017, many people already moved in the relocation area although the “Yolanda” residents
had various difficulties such as lack of water supply, health clinics and learning facilities

TC21 POST-AUDIT INVESTIGATION IN
FEBRUARY 2023Communication between the central government and the local government did not go smoothly andthat the top-down order without adequate and regular open communication with local stakeholders

COORDINATIONCHALLENGES

POOR RESIDENTIAL/
BENEFICIARYPARTICIPATIONSNAGS IN DRRPERSONNEL
CONTINUITY

DIFFICULTY IN
INFO/FLOW AND
SHARING

POOR INTRAGOVERNMENTALCOLLABORATION
AT THE RESPONSE

Low capacity and few livelihood assets to prepare, cope with, andrecover from the damage. Typhoon Haiyan, therefore, intensified
peoples' pre-existing precarity, especially the urban poor who are
already experiencing different levels of economic hardships as aform of disaster.

Thes e plethora of challenges led to ‘s ubs tandard
recovery’ and the failure to improve the living
conditions of many s urvivors ’DAMO NA SALAMAT