Resilience

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Distribution of iAFFORD Cards to project participants in Barangay Burak, one of the priority areas of the B-READY Project. (Photo: PDRRN)

No one left behind

It has been acknowledged that women and men experience disasters differently. Gender and otherintersecting factors such as socio- economic conditions, cultural beliefs, and traditional practices shapethe disaster experience of individuals, as well as their ability to recover.

A mother and merchant during a cash out transaction in Barangay Palanas. (Photo: PDRRN)

Financial technology in the service of disaster-resilient communities

Over time, there has been a growing acknowledgment that cash transfer is an efficient strategy for deliveringaid because it provides recipients the power and flexibility to decide and acquire what they need and, in theprocess, jumpstart the local economy.

Distribution of iAFFORD Cards to project participants in Barangay Butig, one of the priority areas of the B-READY Project. (Photo: PDRRN)

When thinking ahead and working together means saving lives

There are two things that PDRRN values in the B-READY Project – forward thinking and working together. For the network, anticipation and partnership are key to saving lives and building back better, faster.

Hope and courage in the face of disasters

As an active volunteer and mother-leader herself, there is nothing else that she desires more than her familyand community’s safety in times of calamities and disasters, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Preparedness through Disaster Risk Reduction Governance

With its vision of modeling a safer, adaptive, anddisaster risk-resilient municipality, the municipality of Salcedo in Eastern Samar province was chosen as the pilot implementation area for the B-READY Project. Home toalmost 23,000 individuals that make up around 5,000households, the fifth-class...

Residents of Barangay Asgad, Salcedo, Eastern Samar participates in the B-READY Users’ Orientation led by the People’s Disaster Risk Reduction Network. (Photo: Jhomar Padullo/PDRRN)

B-READY for a paradigm shift

Oxfam’s B-READY initiative combines an early warning system for typhoons with digital financial inclusion in helping vulnerable communities. The initiative is powered by strengthened disaster governance.

B-READY participant receives her prepaid card in Barangay Burak, Salcedo, Eastern Samar. (Photo: Myleen Ogana, PDRRN)

Future-proofing our communities

The Covid-19 crisis is not the only emergency the Philippines is facing. The economic slump triggered by the pandemic is happening alongside the country’s vulnerability to natural hazards and climate-related disasters, and worsening pre-existing social vulnerabilities.

Stitching Up the Economic Wound of COVID-19: The Women Sewers of Kamuning Public Market

The Kamuning Public Market was closed last March when an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) was declared to slow the spread of COVID-19. Only food vendors were allowed to sell. Seamstresses like 61-year-old Lina Arroyo had to stay at home--a mandate she found hard to follow.

The COVID-19 Roadblock: Community quarantines isolated communities but cut farmers off from markets and consumers

The New Normal Food Chain: App + Favorite Fruit Vendor + Neighborhood Tricycle Driver

Market vendors needed to sell to their customers confined at home. Motorized rickshaw drivers needed a new route to earn money. An app and a community initiative brought them all together.

The future is equal