Power of partnership conference: Presentation: Poverty alleviation in the wake of typhoon Yolanda: Gathering good data

1. Poverty Alleviation in the Wake of
Typhoon Yolanda:
Gathering Good Data
Pauline Eadie
Pauline.Eadie@nottingham.ac.uk

2. Typhoon Yolanda in numbers
• Super-typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) hit the Visayas
region of the Philippines on 8 November 2013.
• One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall.
• Wind speeds in excess of 300 km/h
• Storm surge reached over five meters in places.
• Official figures - 6,293 individuals reported dead
• 1,061 missing.
• 28,689 were injured.
• damage to infrastructure is estimated at US$342,990,980.
• Affected 591 municipalities.
• Total damage is estimated at US$904,680,0007.
• 93 percent of recorded deaths came from the Eastern Visayas (Region
III).
• Total number of people affected approximately 16 million.

3. Area under research

4. Local Voices

5. Playing to our strengths

6. Problems of self-rated need post
disaster
• Anticipate of ‘reward or punishment for any
reply’ (De Ville de Goyet, 2008).
• survey fatigue
• Dual subjectivity top and bottom
• privacy

7. Political Gatekeepers
• Barangay captains were in charge of lists of
beneficiaries.
• Patron-clientelism – do aid agencies take the
place of patrons?
• ‘Expectations of reward or punishment’ relate
to not only the goods and services that aid
agencies deliver but also how barangay
captains control the flow of these resources.

8. Resilience?
• Livelihood
• Housing
• Language

9. Lessons Learned

10. Sources and Coming Soon
• Project web page:
http://www.projectyolanda.org
• Twitter: @Project_Yolanda
• Facebook: Project_Yolanda
• Policy Recommendations:
http://www.projectyolanda.org/p
olicy-recommendations.aspx
• Survey data:
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/
datacatalogue/studies/study?id=
853359#!/details
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