VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT Republic of the Philippines Province of Ilocos Sur Tagudin Barangay Pudoc West 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 November 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 Pudoc West, 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 Pudoc West for actively participating to all the tools especially to the Barangay Officials headed by Barangay Chairman Miguel Manzo. 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 Pudoc West, 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 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 DepEd – Department of Education DSWD – De2partment of Social Welfare and Development IRA – Internal Revenue Allotment DA – Department of Agriculture DPWH – Department of Public Works and Highways 3 | P a g e 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.........................................................................................................9 5. GENERAL SOCIO- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE LAST 5 YEARS..................................................9 6. INFRASTRUCTURES, BASIC SERVICES AND UTILITIES ........................................................................10 7. GOVERNANCE....................................................................................................................................10 8. OBJECTIVES OF THE VCA ...................................................................................................................11 9. VCA PROCESS ....................................................................................................................................12 10. FINDINGS...........................................................................................................................................15 11. GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS........................................................................................................25 12. ATTACHMENTS..................................................................................................................................26 4 | P a g e 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 Pudoc West during the month of November. 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 1 Province Ilocos Sur Municipality/ City Tagudin City Barangay Pudoc West No. of sitios/puroks Four (4) Date 5 | P a g e VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT Data gathering: November 29-30, 2017 Report preparation: January to July 2018 3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION / COMMUNITY PROFILE 3.1 Geography and topography of the barangay Barangay Pudoc West is bounded on the east by Barangay Pudoc East; Barangay Pacac on the North; Bangar, La Union on the South; and on the west is the China Sea. It has an area of 1.08431 sq. hectares. Almost all barangay roads are concrete except those going to interior areas. 1.019121 hectares of area in the barangay is for agriculture and 0.042241sq hectares for residential. 3.2 History of the barangay One of the southernmost barangays of Tagudin, Ilocos Sur is Barangay Pudoc. This barangay is no longer a single place but divided into 2 barangays namely: Pudoc West and Poduc East. There are two (2) versions on how two (2) barangays got their names. The first version is that the colonization period by the Spaniards was bountiful of a certain type of plant, which was known as “pedped”. This plant is a medicinal one. People during those days according to the folks, called the place as “kapedpedan” (a place where the plants were bountiful). As the years passed, the people who settled in the area started to cultivate and they destroyed these medicinal plants. From then on, the place was called “kapedpedan”. Then it was changed into “Pedpedec” and eventually some letters of the word were dropped and changed and became Pudoc until people got used to it and adopted the name. Pudoc is about four and a half kilometers from town of Tagudin. Before the place was divided into two (2) barangays, there were almost five hundred hectares with plentiful of fresh fishes because of its many branches of the Amburayan River passing through and many ponds. The soil is very rich because of the yearly flow of loam soil from the mountains during rainy seasons when the Amburayan River flows. Some parts of its lands are planted with malunggay, corn, rice, sugarcane, camote, and other vegetables. The other version of how Pudoc got its name was about a great warrior during the pre- spanish period. It was known long ago that many traders came to the Philippines like the Chinese, the Malayans and other oriental people. It was known before the Spanish came to the Philippines; the Filipinos had already their own method of writing and had a form of education being handled by the parents. The early Filipinos were taught about their barangay laws and traditions. However, in their education, self-defense was very much emphasized because tribes fought and engaged in wars with other tribes. 6 | P a g e VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ASSESSMENT Amis was taught to every male and other interested female in the tribe. Due to tribal conflicts, barangay leaders were selected not simply by their greatness in war but also in thinking or they should possess the quality of a reliable leader both in peace and at war. Barangay Pudoc was not yet known before as Pudoc but it was called “Guitan”. The Barangay of “Guitan” was composed of few families who came from the south. The place was located