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Building Resilient CommunitiesDAMPA* Experience
* DAMPA is the Tagalog (a local Philippine dialect used quite extensively throughout the country) word for a poor persons home. An organizational acronym which roughly translates to Solidarity of Poor Filipinos, it is also a powerful symbol of unity in the urban poor struggle for genuine development.
DAMPA A federation of 217 grassroots
organizations Total membership of 79,197 urban
poor families (est. 475,182 individuals) Aims to contribute to providing
solutions to basic urban poverty issues, such as … Appropriate and affordable
housing, Demolition and relocation, Education and literacy among
urban poor children, Income generation and livelihood
development, Basic services, Women and children. Resilience building program
Visayas
Mindanao
Luzon
Context Flood prone areas
(Navotas, Quezon city, Manila
Affected south valley fault line (Q.C).
Typhoon “Ondoy” experience
Community in Surigao Leyte and Manila - Tsunami
Community Pharmacy Multiple approaches to security of Tenure
- Direct purchase- Maximize existing government housing
program Cooperative savings mobilization Micro-finance
Development Initiatives that Reduce Our Vulnerability to Disaster
Community Risk Mapping 7 municipalities in Metro Manila3,000 people, including local officials, health officials,
teachers, etc.Community Issues Identified: 1. Security of land tenure (Housing, demolitions and resettlement,
site development)2. Access to basic services in informal settlements
(water, electricity, communication)3. Access to public health care, specially of the most
vulnerable (affordable medicine, free public health consultations, access to hospitalization, access to services for special needs such as cancer and tuberculosis, and others)
4. Maternal and child care, including access to reproductive health services
5. Protection from and preparedness against disasters due to climate change
Follow Up Action After Mapping Dialogue with Dept. of Health: new community
pharmacies and additional free medicines. Disaster Preparedness Trainings with Baranguays and
Local Disaster Coordinating Council. Water Cooperative with Congressman and Baranguay Communities mobilized savings to get water connection
from Manila Water Disaster Quick Reaction Team in every community
Partnerships VFL 1 and VFL 2 leading to membership of the
National Coordinating Committee. We have been part of dialogue with INGOs on the
findings on VFL We are part of the Disaster Risk Reduction
Network, Philippines. Press for Local Implementation of Republic Act 10121: 5% budget for disaster/ calamity fund.
Local Government Partnerships for disaster trainings, negotiating housing tenure, health services
National Housing Authority in Relocation Sites.
Strategies
1. Community Organizing At different levels…
Local level (Community based /Village/ Barangay ). City level ( Formation of City / municipal wide
federation National federation Federation to federation (Groots Philippines, IPON) Global level (Groots International)
Of different sectors (women, youth, older persons, urban poor)
Main Components of Our Work
Organizing and Networking
Savings Mobilization Capacity and
capability building and learning
Dialogue and Partnership