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VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT Republic of the Philippines Province of Kalinga Municipality/City of Pinukpuk Barangay Junction VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT REPORT Supported by: EPIC DRR project “Empowering the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) and their chapters, communities and government institutions to consolidate and replicate inclusive community based disaster risk reduction in seven provinces in the Philippines” Philippine Red Cross – Kalinga Chapter December 2017 VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT i. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to give you a glimpse of behind the scenes to acknowledge the many individuals who played indispensable roles in the successful completion of the Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan of Barangay Pinukpuk Junction, Pinukpuk, Kalinga: To MLGOO ALEXANDER ACUAT for his fortitude to impose what is mandated under the Local Government Code, for his intellect on disaster preparedness and continues motivations to barangay officials to improve the delivery of basic services to the people; To the German Red Cross (GRC) and the Municipal Government of Pinukpuk- Support Partners for their invaluable contribution to the residents of Pinukpuk Junction in providing technical and financial assistance in the formulation of this Plan; To the barangay personnel, BNS, BHW and other concern individuals for providing the necessary information and data that helped us realizes the BDRRM Plan; Our sincerest thanks to all of you! VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT ii. GLOSSARY BDRRMP – Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan BDRRMC – Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Committee CSOs – Civil Society Organizations GRC – German Red Cross LGU – Local Government Unit MRF – Material Recovery Facility NGO – Non-Government Organization PRC – Philippine Red Cross VCA – Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment MLGOO – Municipal Local Government Organization VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT Contents 1. INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE ..................................................................................................... 5 2. PLACE AND TIME OF THE VCA ................................................................................................ 5 3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION / COMMUNITY PROFILE........................................................ 6 4. GENERAL CLIMATE CONDITIONS ........................................................................................... 6 5. GENERAL SOCIO- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE LAST 5 YEARS .................................... 6 6. INFRASTRUCTURES, BASIC SERVICES AND UTILITIES ............................................................. 7 7. GOVERNANCE ........................................................................................................................ 7 8. OBJECTIVES OF THE VCA ........................................................................................................ 8 9. VCA PROCESS ......................................................................................................................... 8 10. FINDINGS .............................................................................................................................. 11 11. GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS (BASED ON FINDINGS). ..................................................... 14 12. CHALLENGES LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES ...................................................... 14 13. ATTACHMENTS ..................................................................................................................... 14 VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT 1. INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE Vulnerability-Capacity Assessment (VCA) is a method of investigation into the risks that people face in their locality, their vulnerability to those risks and their capacity to cope with and recover from disasters. Its purpose is to increase community members’ awareness of risk and help them to plan activities for reducing vulnerability and increasing capacity before a disaster. VCA is a tool that enables local priorities to be identified and leads to the design of actions that contribute to disaster reduction. Thus, VCA is an integral part (but not the only part) of disaster risk reduction that can contribute to the creation of Community-based disaster preparedness programmes. For this, VCA should result in actions that community members can undertake and lead themselves. VCA is conducted using participatory approach, which facilitate to gather information and evaluate which can be used in decision making of the community to be able to respond or recover from disaster. This can also be used for recommendation purposes for the community to ask for assistance in small scale mitigation project for the barangay. It is expected the Government and non-government partners to use this to work together to strengthen Disaster Risk Reduction in every community. This Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) was conducted in Barangay Junction during the month of December 2018. More than 27 people participated from the barangay. All those participants represent various groups and they were able to identify their risks posed by various hazards and means of mitigating those risks. This report presents the main outputs of the Vulnerability Capacity Assessment of the community, its possible solutions through action plan. 2. PLACE AND TIME OF THE VCA Place Region CAR Province Kalinga Municipality/ City Pinukpuk Barangay Junction No. of sitios/puroks 7 Puroks Date Data gathering: November 29 & 30, 2018 Report preparation: December 2018 VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT 3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION / COMMUNITY PROFILE 3.1 Geography and topography of the barangay Barangay Junction is located in the Northeastern part of the Municipality of Pinukpuk in the Province of Kalinga. On the Northeast is bounded by Barangay Magaogao, Barangay Camalog, on the Southeast, Barangay Pakawit on the West, directly and on the Northwest are Barangay Catabbogan and Barangay Malagnat respectively, on the Southwest is Taga, Poblacion. The area is generally rolling with light to moderate sleep slopes with elevation ranging from 200 to 400 meters denuded hills and partially forested mountain. Junction Pinukpuk has an approximate are of 4,336 hectares. It is accessible to different motor vehicles from the Capital Town of Tabuk, Tuguegarao City, and nearby provinces. Junction Pinukpuk has few kilometers of gravel dirt road from Tabuk. It is almost 1 to 1 1/2 hours ride by jitney. Public transport in the area is provided by a single trip and others are double trip that ply to and from the capital town daily. Going to Tuguegarao, the recommended shortcut route is via Tuao. Has few kilometers via dirt road that becomes muddy and prone to landslides during rainy season. 3.2 History of the barangay Pinukpuk was created independent Barangay under Republic Act (RA) 3590 on June 22, 1963. It is the center of commerce in the municipality of Pinukpuk managed by small traders. As early as 1950, people migrated from, CAGAYAN, BENGUET and ILOCOS REGION contributed to the urbanization of Junction Pinukpuk. In 1981, the Municipal hall of TAGA POBLACION was razed to the ground allegedly by unknown arsonist. So, that as early as 1985, the Municipal officials transferred the seat of governent from TAGA POBLACION to JUNCTION PINUKPUK VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT 3.3 Demography of the barangay Demography Barangay Socbot, Municipality, Province Number of Families 881 Number of Household 716 Population Total 3,397 Male 1,694 Female 1,703 Number of Children (below18 yrs) Total 868 Male 405 Female 463 Number of person with disability Total 18 Male 10 Female 8 Number of Elderly (above 60 yrs) Total 207 Male 97 Female 110 Ethnicity and Religion: Roman Catholic, Anglican(Ephiscopal Church) and Born Again Remarks Please add any comments related to data, if there is any Note: Name the source and date of this data. Source: / Barangay Health Worker , Junction 2019 4. GENERAL CLIMATE CONDITIONS 4.1 Present climate The climate and environmental condition of barangay Junction for the month of January to February is cold and windy that caused of cough and colds became spasmodic. As for March to may is sunny and cloudy and it rain at times that the citizens are occupied in their seasonal activities like: scouring their rice plants, and which is their period of planting vegetables, fruits, and other main source of income and livelihood. While for the month of June to July is sunny and rain ones in while and it their period of harvesting their crops. For the month of August to October were sunny and cloudy which the community secured to plants crops because the season are timely for their livelihood activities and experience two Typhoons (Ompong and Rosita) especially Typhoon Ompong, that caused of damaged crops-rice, corn and vegetables and loss of livelihood totally washed out. And for the month of November to December it is cold and windy that cough and colds and sickness is rampant. 4.2 Climate 30 years ago The climate and environmental conditions of the Barangay in the past 30 years is multifarious. Since, there are calamities but not like now that it gave numerous consequences experienced in the community hence, they experienced good quality in their types of crops and gain great benefits. And sickness is rare. VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT 5. GENERAL SOCIO- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE LAST 5 YEARS 5.1 Livelihood (men/ women) The major resources of income