Presentation based on the experiences of Bohol Local Development Foundation, Inc. (BLDF) 25 May 2016 | Metrocentre Hotel, Tagbilaran City

1. BUILDING BACK BETTER AND SAFER:
Ensuring sustainability through people-based development
Philippine Press Institute (PPI)
Seminar-Workshop on Sustainable Construction Reporting in Partnership with Holcim Philippines
Presentation based on the experiences of Bohol Local Development Foundation, Inc. (BLDF)
25 May 2016 | Metrocentre Hotel, Tagbilaran City

2. Extent of Damage - 15 October Earthquake
Source: PPDO, 1st Week, November 2013
Areas Dead Missing Injured
Totally
Damaged
Houses
Partially
Damaged
Houses
Bohol Province 211 8 877 13,402 65,815
Antequera 15 1 28 1,123 2,160
Angilan, Antequera 0 0 0 109 121
Pangangan 0 0 0 204 582
Lawis, Pangangan 2 0 2 94 63

3. How the House Build Project Started
Our NGO, Bohol Local Development Foundation
(BLDF), saw the need to move from relief work to
rehabilitation, and to get into this phase as quickly as
possible.
For rehabilitation to begin, families must move out of
tents into more secure housing, which may be temporary
or transitional, to keep family members safe, especially
the children, the elderly, women and the differently-abled.

4. BLDF’s Key Objectives
To help homeless
families build for
themselves a transition
core house or temporary
shelter.
To work with target families
on the idea of a core house
that is expandable, flexible
and possibly transferrable
to safer ground if need be.

5. BLDF focused on relatively remote communities
hard hit by the earthquake in the province

6. Key Profile Data
Angilan, Antequera
Angilan in Antequera is one of the off-the-
main-road barangays of the town with
rugged terrain and very few flat lands.
Many houses are built along mountain
slopes, if not in narrow valleys. Houses
were totally damaged either by land cracks,
sinkholes or landslides caused by the
October 15 quake.

7. Profile Data - Angilan, Antequera
4.2
Average household size (smaller compared to the Lauis partner family beneficiaries)
2
Smallest household size
8
Biggest household size
52.
2
Average age of household head
36
Youngest
78
Oldest

8. Profile Data - Angilan, Antequera
1/3
of the
population has
farming as a
means of
livelihood
6 or 40%
Carpenters
1
Driver
1
Laundrywoman
(household
head)
2 out of
15
Housewives

9. Profile Data – Angilan, Antequera
All of their houses were totally damaged by the quake and most
of them did not want to return to the area where their damaged
houses were located.
All of them wanted to relocate to a safer place. They wanted to
contribute construction materials, mostly salvaged from their
damaged houses; six carpenters were among the homeless.
Majority of the families , 12 of the 15, indicated Php 6,000.00 as
likely in-kind contribution from each affected family in terms of
labor or materials .

10. Key Profile Data
Barangay Lauis, Calape
Pangangan is an island of eight barangays located off the coast of its mother
town, the Municipality of Calape.
It is connected to the mainland by a land bridge.
Barangay Lauis is one of those eight barangays in the island.
As in many small islands, the terrain is almost uniformly flat; after the quake, one
can see cracks and sinkholes almost anywhere one looks.

11. Profile Data – Lauis, Calape
• Fishers24 or 54%
• Icemaker1
• Security guard1
• Retiree1
• Housewives3 out of 24
• Carpenters3
• have no stable job3
• youngest household head is32
• oldest80
• working age group (belonging
to the 32-60 age bracket)
79%
• ages 60 years old and above21%

12. Profile Data – Lauis, Calape
Average household size
5.4
Smallest household
2
Biggest household
10
households have 6 members
5
households have seven members each
5

13. All of the 24 houses were totally damaged by the quake and no longer
livable.
All 24 household heads expressed desire to return to where their
damaged houses were or somewhere near these houses.
Only two out of 24 each manifested desire to build in an area that is far
from a sinkhole and at the back of the chapel.
Most them or 87% are owners of the lot on which they plan to build a
core house build.
The rest (13%) would like build on the lot owned by a relative.
Profile Data – Lauis, Calape

14. Rehabilitation Process
Meeting
with partner
families
Planning
and
consultation

15. Target Beneficiaries: (1 Project Site)
27 families with totally destroyed houses
Children, 75
Women, 35
Other Group
(Elderly/Differen
tly-abled), 15
Children Women Other Group (Elderly/Differently-abled)

16. Program Strategy
Help families build progressive core houses in support of the
recovery efforts
Help them move out gradually to normal family and community
life after living under tarps and tents
Help restore their confidence, encourage long-term planning and
provide a more secure and healthier shelter option for vulnerable
family members (children, women, elderly and differently-abled)
Help the families resume their normal ivelihood activities after the
provision of better shelter

17. Consulting with Partner Families
Would you like to go back or be relocated?
What kind of house do you prefer to build?
What salvaged materials do you have?
What do you think should be done?
How do you intend to start it?

18. Planning with the community
Presentation
of proposed
house
models
Consultation
with local
carpenters
Calculation of
costing;
decision on
the design
per house

19. Building the initial houses to test strategy
and boost confidence
Angilan,
Antequera
15 Lauis,
Pangangan
Island
24

20. Identifying Priority Families
Criteria Households/families with elderlies
Households/families with children
Female-headed households/families
With salvaged materials
Preparation Inventory of skilled and semi-skilled carpenters
Maintenance of
families of
carpenters
In Pangangan, parish priest took care of this; in Calape, the LGU
paid for the salaries.

21. Angilan, Antequera (Implementation Strategy)
Families
clustered
into 5 for
each group
Each cluster
elects a
coordinator
Coordinator
manages the
building of
the houses
Each cluster
plans for the
maintenance
of families of
carpenters –
rice
requirement

22. House Build Targets
•3 houses simultaneously built
•5 carpenters for each house
•15 days
Angilan,
Antequera
• 5 houses for a 2-week
• partnership: skilled and
semi-skilled carpenters
Lauis,
Pangangan

24. Milestones
From 21 Nov. 2013 when the first house was built for an old couple, Bernardo and
Expedita Morata, to 31 July 2014, the agreed cut-off date for the Bohol Quake Assistance
fund drive, the project was able to partner with 150 families in relatively remote families in:
Lauis,
Calape -
54
Angilan,
Antequera
– 17
Viga,
Antequera
– 27
San
Isidro,
Calape –
11
Talisay,
Calape –
3
Magtongto
ng,
Calape –
9
Madangog
, Calape –
8
Bood,
Maribojoc
– 17
Montana,
Baclayon -
4

25. Milestones
The Project was able to demonstrate that:
• a community-based approach to shelter assistance
has the potential to get quake victims out of tents and
other makeshift structures to avoid health risks and
threats to security while waiting for permanent housing
• the significant involvement of families in the building of
their homes strengthens self-esteem and helps
overcome feelings of helplessness and despair

26. Milestones
• local assets (skills and resources) could be identified to
promote informal employment and sustainable livelihood
to further ensure sustainability of inputs at family and
community levels;
individuals and groups respond to appeals for help if
there is a transparent process in place that accounts for
donations and shows concrete results based on stated
goals;

27. Milestones
•committed local leadership is key to achieving
community cooperation in addressing common
problems;
Indeed the people and the people are the real heroes
but it takes patience and perseverance to reach their
heart and soul for development .

28. KEYPARTNERS
Community-Based Shelter Assistant Project

29. Presented by: Nestor Maniebo Pestelos
President
Bohol Local Development Foundation, Inc.
Email: npestelos@gmail.com
Graphics by: Ms. Daidee Padron, Secretariat, Bohol
Rehabilitation and Rebuilding Program (BRRP)
Diocese of Tagbilaran

30. THANK YOU!
For more information:
Read: Old Warrior’s Poems and the Bohol Quake
Assistance Story by Nestor Maniebo Pestelos and Milwida
Sevilla-Reyes
Visit: www.localdevbohol.org
http://www.facebook.com/bohollocaldevelopmentfoundation
http://www.facebook.com/oldwarriorandotherpoems
https://www.facebook.com/boholquakeassistance
http://www.nestormpestelos.blogspot.com/
https://www.bldf.blogspot.com