rapid assessment of the social impacts of - Philippines Development ...

Data Set Guide Questions
responding to
Ondoy
Social support
networks,
family-based,
communitybased
or
otherwise
Impressions on
quality of life in
the evacuation
center: food
service/ration;
health,
sanitation,
illness,
grooming;
Coping
strategies/
For each group:
a. What were the main activities undertaken?
b. How quickly were they able to mobilize?
c. Are they specific to certain neighborhoods?
d. Do they have links across neighborhoods? Have they drawn on these in the
response to Ondoy? For example: Did they provide assistance directly
(distribution of relief goods) and/or did they act as intermediaries between
local government and the community?
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2. How were men, women, male/female youth/children, etc. involved in these
community mobilizations?
3. How effective and appropriate (for women, men, male/female youth/children,
rich, poor, etc.) Was the relief/recovery response?
4. What is the relationship of these organizations with local government structures?
Has this changed since Ondoy? For example: Is there a history of collaboration
(on what activities?), is this collaboration new (restricted to the relief assistance
after Ondoy?) Is the role one of advocacy, or service delivery (complementing
that of government), etc.?
5. How were women, men, male/female youth/children, etc. involved in these
collaborations? In what venues/levels (formal/informal discussions,
barangay/municipal/city levels) were these different groups involved?
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Social Relations and Cohesion
1. Are people (women, men, children/male/female youth/children, elderly) in the
neighborhood/community more participative now since Ondoy? In what ways are
they helping each other? Who is helping who?
2. Do people (men, women, children/male/female youth/children, elderly) in the
community feel more/less secure since Ondoy, when physical facilities such as
homes, lighting, roads were destroyed? What forms of risks/dangers are different
groups exposed to?
3. Have problems or tensions arisen in the neighborhood, perhaps in terms of
access to community resources/facilities (e.g.,water pump) for reconstruction?
Which among men, women, leaders, those who are living inside or outside the
area has access or control over the resource/facility?
1. How were/are the living conditions (for women, men, children, etc.) in the
evacuation site? What basic services (water, light, health) were present/missing in
the site?
2. What are the specific needs of women, men, male/female youth/children, etc.?
a. Were there specific needs of women, children and elderly neglected or
addressed at the evacuation centers?
b. How addressed? By whom? (or) Why neglected?
3. What are your recommendations to improve the living conditions in evacuation
sites?
Livelihood and Socioeconomic Adaptations
1. What strategies do HHs/families adopt in order to cope with the disruptions in
economic activities? By whom (women, men, children, youth, elderly)? What are
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