Y O L A N D A U P D A T E Sr e h a b i l i t a t i o n a n d r e c o v e r y p r o g r am s

15 October 2015Compiled by the Yolanda Program Monitoring Office of the National Economic and Development Authority

1,026 928 54 305

Ongoing

Completed Under Procurement

Not yet started

RESETTLEMENT Housing units constructed

Textbooks and learning materials provided

Learning kits providedEmergency shelter assistance provided

SOCIAL SERVICES

3,780,661 copies 2,689,817

987,545 families 40,902

339,745

The Philippine government continues to undertake programs, projects and activities (PPA) that aim to build back better from the devastation caused by the strongest typhoon to ever hit land. With the recovery and rehabilitation

work now on its medium-term phase (2015-2017), targets are steadily accomplished. As of 15 October 2015, the overall weighted physical accomplishment (OWPA)* of completed (27.37 percent) and on-going (30.63 percent) projects is 57.99 percent. Following are the key results that have been achieved through coordinated action among national and local agencies.

INFRA-STRUCTURE

National roads reconstructed/rehabilitated

National bridges reconstructed/rehabilitated

Flood control structures reconstructed/rehab

Airports rehabilitatedSeaport facilities rehabilitatedClassrooms newly constructedClassrooms rehabilitatedState college and university projects completed

Municipal facilities rehabilitated (civic

centers, municipal halls, and public markets)

Communal irrigation systems restored

12,635 79,919 112,574

60.29 km 38.42 7.35 .65

1,117.64 lm 640.09 94.80

77 17 8 8

35 1 1

23 34

5,457 4,239 3,484 4,155446 187 86

292 17

39 20 13

LIVELIHOOD

Fishing boats repaired/replaced Fishing gears and paraphernalia distributed

Farm tools distributedTractors and other machineries provided

Rice and corn seeds distributedCoconut areas replantedCoconut intercropping areas establishedStarter kits distributedEntrepreneurship trainings conducted

Livelihood Assistance and CBLASkills and livelihood trainings conducted

48,171 10,270

138 units

76,598 sets 4,779

94,020 bags 12,253

37,253 hectares

52,492

17,169 sets 3,806

18,281

48,256

623

289 14

55,502

31,130 beneficiaries

3,435

44,466

181,252 hectares

13,092

61

304,935 beneficiaries

17,603

20

531 2,198

9

3,765

9

*The OWPA represents actual physical accomplishment of a project or portfolio. This is computed by: (a) determining the weights of each agency project category by dividing category/component cost to the total program amount of the agency; (b) Individual cumulative actual performance of project categories are determined by comparing cumula-tive actual performance against the total physical targets of each category; (c) weighted physical performance of each category is derived by multiplying individual perfor-mance of each category by its corresponding weights; (d) OWPA of the agency derived by the sum of all project category/component weighted accomplishments.

Leyte coconut farmers diversify after Yolanda Typhoon Yolanda left in its wake 100,000 hectares of damaged coconut farmland. As of October 15, 2015 reporting cycle, 37,253 hectares have been replanted through the Philippine Coconut Authority’s efforts. It will take several years for Leyte’s coconut industry to recover from Typhoon Yolanda’s massive damage. Meanwhile, PCA is helping coconut farmers diversify their source of livelihood. Leyte’s coconut farmers are now starting to diversify while waiting for newly-planted trees to bear fruit, estimated to take between three to six years. “I alternately planted pinakbet (vegetable ingredients of the popular native dish such as egg-plant, okra and stringbeans), cassava and pine-apple under the surviving coconut trees,” recalls Ronaldo Saballe of Tolosa in Leyte. His vegetable harvests provided more than enough for his own family, so he would let neighbors in his barangay pick freely from his crops. For the corn farm he started a few months after the typhoon (in April 2014), Ronaldo earned P8,000 for a hec-tare he planted with 10 kilograms of seeds given by the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA). He is now waiting for another batch of seeds from PCA for the next cropping season. Intercropping vegetables and other agricultural crops in between the main crop — coconut — is one of the major interventions of PCA to help coconut farmers recover lost income as well as provide a sustainable food source for their families. As of October 15, 2015, PCA has covered 52,492 hectares of coconut areas intercropped with vegetables and other crops across coconut-growing areas in Eastern Visayas that were badly damaged by Typhoon Yolanda in 2013, including Leyte province. Coconut replanting was done on May 2014 in Ronaldo’s farm. He planted two varieties- the fast-growing variety that can bear fruit as early as three years after planting, and the Laguna Tall variety that can bear fruit six years after planting. Ronaldo was also paid P25 for every seednut that he planted to replace coconut trees felled by the typhoon in the plantation where he works as a tenant. Ronaldo benefited from a wide range of PCA interventions for affected coconut farmers starting from the cash-for-work program to clear the debris (felled coconut trees) in the coconut farms in the early days. (Some beneficiaries, on the other hand, opted for coco lumber from the clearing operations to help build a new house.) After the clearing opera-tions in April 2014, Ronaldo also availed of PCA’s fertilizer subsidy for farmers to apply to their surviving coconut trees. Ronaldo and the other farmers also received P25 for each tree that they would fertilize. Ronaldo’s participation in PCA activities helped the community see him as a leader they could rely on. “I am honored to have earned my community’s trust, enough for them to ask me to lead an association of coconut farmers here in (Barangay) Telesporo,” beams Ronaldo. More than 50 coconut farmers in Ronaldo’s barangay have organized themselves into the Telesporo Coconut Farmers Association. Their immediate objective is to access the PCA regular program KAANIB (Kasaganahan sa Niyo-gan ay Kaunlaran ng Bayan). The KAANIB Project could grant up to P1million worth of livelihood support to a group of at

least 50 coconut farmers. The grant will enable the association to engage in a combination of either processing of virgin coconut oil or coconut sugar combined with livestock dispersal.Ronaldo sees the KAANIB program as a big boost for coconut farmers like him to jumpstart an alter-native livelihood. Through the help of PCA, they are now working to register the association with the Department of Labor and Employment.

COVER PHOTO shows the rehabilitated fish port of Estancia in Iloilo, the town dubbed “Alaska of the Philippines”. Read related story online at http://yolanda.neda.gov.ph/alaska-of-the-philippines-is-back-in-business/