Yr e hOa b Li l iAt a tNi o nDa nAd rUe c Po v eDr y AT
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programs
15 October 2015
Compiled by the Yolanda Program Monitoring Office of the National Economic and Development Authority
T
he 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.
INFRASTRUCTURE
LIVELIHOOD
RESETTLEMENT
Not yet started
7.35 .65
38.42
94.80
640.09
8
17
77
8
11
35
34
23
1,026
54
928
5,457
3,484
4,239
446
305
4,155
86
187
292
17
39
13
20
3,780,661 copies
Textbooks and learning materials provided
Learning kits provided
Emergency shelter assistance provided
Housing units constructed
Ongoing
1,117.64 lm
Communal irrigation systems restored
Fishing boats repaired/replaced
Fishing gears and paraphernalia distributed
Farm tools distributed
Tractors and other machineries provided
Rice and corn seeds distributed
Coconut areas replanted
Coconut intercropping areas
established
Starter kits distributed
Entrepreneurship trainings conducted
Livelihood Assistance and CBLA
Skills and livelihood trainings conducted
Under Procurement
60.29 km
National roads reconstructed/rehabilitated
National bridges reconstructed/rehabilitated
Flood control structures reconstructed/rehab
Airports rehabilitated
Seaport facilities rehabilitated
Classrooms newly constructed
Classrooms rehabilitated
State college and university projects completed
Municipal facilities rehabilitated (civic
centers, municipal halls, and public markets)
SOCIAL
SERVICES
Completed
2,689,817
339,745
987,545 families
40,902
48,171
10,270
76,598 sets
4,779
17,169 sets
3,806
531 2,198
138 units
9 9
94,020 bags
18,281
37,253 hectares
48,256
52,492
3,765
12,253
44,466
13,092
14
289
304,935 beneficiaries
31,130 beneficiaries
12,635
79,919
3,435
181,252 hectares
623
55,502
20
17,603
112,574
*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 cumulative actual performance against the total physical targets of each category; (c) weighted physical performance of each category is derived by multiplying individual performance of each category by its corresponding weights; (d) OWPA of the agency derived by the sum of all project category/component weighted accomplishments.
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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 eggplant, okra and stringbeans), cassava and pineapple 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 hectare 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 cashfor-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 operations 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 Niyogan 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 alternative 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/