VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT Republic of the Philippines Province of Ilocos Sur Tagudin Barangay Quirino 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 – Ilocos Sur Chapter SEPTEMBER 2017 1 | P a g e VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT i. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This document is developed with the efforts of the Philippine Red Cross and the German Red Cross and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany through the EPIC DRR Project. The VCA Team would like to express their deepest gratitude to the Holy God for the guidance during the whole process of the Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment conducted at Barangay Quirino, Tagudin, Ilocos Sur. The VCA Team would also like to have this opportunity to express their deepest gratitude to all the Community Members of Barangay Quirino for actively participating to all the tools especially to the Barangay Officials headed by Barangay Chairman Elvi Bundan. Their full support and time made the activity a success. The VCA Team would also like to thank the Barangay Officials for the time and effort they have given in conducting the actual data gathering and analysis of the data, sharing their expertise, genuine guidance and endless encouragement to the people of the barangay during the VCA Process. Moreover, the team would also like to offer sincere thanks to the Local Government unit of Tagudin, Barangay Local Government Unit of Quirino, for providing the team with all the necessary facilities and data which was used for the Analysis Tools. Lastly, the VCA Team would like to extend the deepest gratitude to the Philippine Red Cross – Ilocos Sur Chapter Officer in Charge, Mr. Raymund Mario Chan, and the whole PRC-Ilocos Sur Chapter Family, for their endless support, time and understanding to make the activity and the project always a success. Thank you very much! 2 | P a g e 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 ISPSC- Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College IRA – Internal Revenue Allotment ISECO – Ilocos Sur electrical Cooperative VAWC – Violence Against Women and Children ABKD – Aksyon Barangay Kontra Dengue BNS – Barangay Nutrition Scholar BHW – Barangay Health Worker DOH – Department of Health DSWD – Department of Social Welfare and Development 3 | P a g e VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT Contents 1. INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE ..................................................................................................................4 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..................................................7 6. INFRASTRUCTURES, BASIC SERVICES AND UTILITIES ..........................................................................7 7. GOVERNANCE......................................................................................................................................8 8. OBJECTIVES OF THE VCA .....................................................................................................................8 9. VCA PROCESS ......................................................................................................................................9 10. FINDINGS...........................................................................................................................................12 11. GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS........................................................................................................23 CHALLENGES LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES.............................................................................23 12. ATTACHMENTS..................................................................................................................................24 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 4 | P a g e VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT 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 Quirino during the month of December. More than 40 people participated from the barangay. All those participants represent various groups including senior citizens, barangay officials, 4Ps, religious groups and youth 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 I Province Ilocos Sur Municipality/ City Tagudin Barangay Pallogan No. of sitios/puroks 8 zones Date Data gathering: December 11-12, 2017 Report preparation: January to July 2018 5 | P a g e VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT 3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION / COMMUNITY PROFILE 3.1 Geography and topography of the barangay The barangay is situated in the Poblacion area of the Municipality of Tagudin. Most of the barangay roads are concrete and most of the infrastructures are for residential and commercial. There is a river along the southern part of the barangay that often causes flooding. The barangay is divided into eight (8) zones or Purok. The barangay is bounded by Barangay Las-ud on the north; Barangay Baritao on the south; Barangay Magsaysay on the east; and Barangay Jardin on the west. The total land area is 10.8160 hectares. the land areas used as residential is 4.265 hectares; for agricultural is 1.7838 hectares; and for commercial is 0.1334 hectares. 3.2 History of the barangay During the reign of President Marcos, empowerment of the grassroots was one of his objectives, thus, the creation of the barangays. History tells us that the municipality of Tagudin was absolutely a Poblacion into four (4) Districts namely Del Pilar District, Rizal District, Magsaysay District and Quirino District which was later transformed into barangays. In commemoration of the late President Elpidio Quirino, a building called Quirino, which was a learning institution, was constructed in Barangay Quirino as recognition of his heroic achievements. 3.3 Demography of the barangay Demography Barangay Quirino, Tagudin, Ilocos Sur Number of Families 188 Number of Household 148 Population 761 394 Male 367 Femal e Number of infant 6 Male Femal e Number of boarders 161 Male Femal e Number of Elderly (above 60 138 Male Femal yrs) e Number of PWD 11 Ethnicity and Religion: Bago Tribe, Kankanaey Tribe; Roman Catholic, Church of Christ, Baptist, Born-again Remarks no breakdown of male and female 4. GENERAL CLIMATE CONDITIONS 4.1 Present climate 6 | P a g e VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT The temperature is hotter compare before and the timing of rainfall and dry season is earlier and longer. 4.2 Climate 30 years ago The climate before was much cooler and the less intensified rainfall. 5. GENERAL SOCIO- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE LAST 5 YEARS 5.1Livelihood The major income generation of the community is mainly on business, tricycle drivers, ice cream maker and vendors. There are still some who are fishing near the river. There are also skilled workers such as carpenters, professionals (teachers, nurse, police, lawyer, doctor, Government and non-government employee, accountant, engineer) and sales lady. There are several micro finances such as Card Inc. and Card Bank. 5.2Education There is a nearby school which is the Tagudin National Highschool and ISPSC. It caters the student’s secondary and tertiary education. There is Quirino