Vulnerability Assessment

HAZARD VULNERABLE VULNERABILITIES

AREAS PEOPLE PROPERTIES SERVICES ENVIRONMENT LIVELIHOOD
NATURAL Roxas  People living in  Houses made  Lack of public  Contaminated  Farming in
Espanola areas easily of light awareness on water supply mountain
- Flood Taytay flooded, river material, warning/ alert and poor waste areas
- Typhoon El Nido banks, coastal located in areas signals and other water disposal (Kaingin/
- Landslide Bataraza and mountain easily flooded information slash and
Brooke’s range programs  Low lying areas burn)
Point  Health facilities near the
Dumaran  Limited made of light  Lack/absence of riverbanks &  Illegal
Puerto knowledge and materials and public health, dams and logging
Princesa City lack of sense dilapidated, curative care and coastal water
Narra of urgency damage mental health locked areas  Fishing
Quezon among the medical program coverage
community equipments  Poor home/  Agriculture
leaders and and supplies  Food safety, evacuation
people on communicable sanitation due  Fishing
warning/alert  School disease and vector to
signals building/ control coverage. overcrowding,  Business/
evacuation damage of tourism
 Severe injuries centers made  Construction structures industry
among Elderly, of light standards of public
PWDs, materials, sector  Poor  Transport
children, located in the infrastructure environmental
Pregnant mountain, near sanitation/ Solid  Mining
mothers and the river banks waste handling
and seashores
 lactating  Interrupted  Food handling/
mothers  Absence/ ambulance/ spoilage of
inadequate transport services refrigerated
 Untrained designated foods due to
volunteers, number of power outages,
staff in the ambulances flooding of
event of and transport facilities
disaster vehicle
 Proliferation of
 Hunger due to vector breeding
insufficient sites
food supply
and low  Hard to reach
resistance of areas not
the body and accessible by
can be easily roads that
acquired hampers the
respiratory delivery of
diseases and emergency
other services
communicable
diseases  Deforestation

 Short and long

term mental
health effects
to people
BIOLOGICAL Rizal  Indigenous  Living in caves  Inadequate  Streams, open  Kaingin
Bataraza people living in and makeshift Medical supplies, dug wells & farming
- Epidemics/ Quezon mountainous and equipments in rivers are their
Outbreak El Nido areas with  Houses without the BHS, RHU, source of  Illegal
- Diarrhea/ Dumaran limited access toilets Hospitals during drinking water logging
cholera Agutaya to health emergencies
- Dengue Aborlan information  Houses made  Poor sanitation  Mining
- Malaria Narra of light  Health center
- Measles Espanola  Displaced materials located in far flung  No sanitary
Linapacan people areas with limited toilets
Taytay access to health
Balabac  Overcrowding services including  70% forest
Coron supplies and
Busuanga  Increase risk of equipments
San Vicente children to
Brooke’s communicable  Inadequate
Point diseases communication
facilities used for
 Inadequate quick reporting
knowledge and due to absence of
poor practices electricity and
on the equipments
importance of
hygiene,  Food shortage
disease
prevention and  Disruption of
control water supply,
electricity and
telecommunication
TABLE 5
Vulnerability Reduction Plan

HAZARD VULNERABILITY PREVENTION TIME RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS PERSON INDICATORS

STRATEGIES & FRAME Required Available Source RESPON-
ACTIVITIES SIBLE
NATURAL PEOPLE
 Flood People living in areas Hazard mapping Jan-June logistics Computers PPDO PPDO Hazard maps
 Typhoon easily flooded, river 2012 per
 Landslide banks, coastal and Technical municipality/
 Sea surge mountain range person barangays
Limited knowledge and Health Education Oct 2011- IEC IEC PHO/ HEPOs # of
lack of sense of urgency and Promotion 2012 materials materials Calamit lectures/for a
among the community - Conduct of y fund conducted
leaders, volunteers and health fora/ Snacks
people on warning/alert lectures/ # of IEC
signals assembly Training materials
materials

Venue

=150,000
Severe injuries among Mass 2012 Vaccines Vaccines PHO PHO # of clients
Elderly, PWDs, children, Immunization of given
pregnant mothers and children Supplies Supplies preventive
lactating mothers and and and curative
medicines medicines services

2012
 Provision of public
health packages of
services
Hunger due to insufficient Food assistance 2012 Food stuff Food packs PSWDO PSWDO, # recipient
food supply/ Malnutrition and Nutrition =200,000 Donors given food
packs
Acquired respiratory Provision of Public 2012 Drugs and Drugs and PHO/ PHO # patients
diseases and other and medical medicines medicines RHU given medical
communicable diseases Health services Medical services
supplies and
equipments

Disease 2012 Functional Trained PHO/ PHO # of

surveillance and Surveillance DSC CHD4-B functional
Info mgt. unit per surveillance
facility with unit
trained DSC
and with
basic
equipments
PROPERTIES
Houses made of light Renovation/ 2012 Building Technical PEO PEO # of houses
material, located in areas Repair materials persons
easily flooded and plan
Health facilities made of Renovation/ 2012 Budget Budget PLGU, PHO # of health
light materials and Construction of CHD4-B facilities
dilapidated with damage health facilities
medical equipments and
supplies
Absence / inadequate Procurement of 2012 Budget Donors PHO # of vehicle
designated number of ambulances , sea proposals approved and
ambulances and transport ambulance and delivered
vehicle transport vehicle
SERVICES
Lack of public awareness Capability building 2012 Teaching CHD4-B CHD4-B # of
on warning/ alert signals of community materials participants
and other information leaders and attended
programs people Trainers

Lack/absence of public Provision of 2012 Drugs and CHD4-B # of patients

health, curative care and medical and medicines seen and
mental health program mental health given
coverage services Psychiatrist 20 MDs LGUs treatment
/ Trained 25 Nurses
doctors and PSWD
other health trained
staff per staff
municipality
Food safety, Capability building 2012 Teaching PHO LGU PHO # of
communicable disease of health staff and materials coordinato participants
and vector control health volunteers r and attended
coverage Trainers trainer

Food and
accommoda
tion of pax
and trainer
Construction standards of Information 2012 Manuals PEO staff PLGU PEO # of
public sector Dissemination Guidelines participants
infrastructure -Lectures /forum Ordinances attended
Interrupted ambulance/ Formulation of 2012 Technical
transport services policies and persons
guidelines in the
use of ambulance
and transport
vehicle
ENVIRONMENT
Contaminated water Water treatment 2012 Materials MLGU RSI # of water
supply and poor waste and construction and supplies sources
water disposal of toilet facilities treated

# of toilets
constructed
Poor home /evacuation Planning and 2012 Construc- PEO PEO # of
sanitation due to Monitoring of tion evacuation
overcrowding, damage of evacuation centers standards centers
structures / homes monitored
Technical
persons
Food handling/ spoilage of Coordination with 2012 Electric MLGU MLGU Copy of
refrigerated foods due to the electric power contingency
power outages, flooding company contingency plan
of facilities plan
Low lying areas Education on the 2012 Warning MLGU MLGU # of
near the riverbanks & early warning signals municipalities
dams and coastal water signals /and alert materials/ with warning
locked areas system signal
 device and devices/
equipments equipments

Designate # of
relocation Designated municipalities
/evacuation areas relocation with list of
with designated areas and evacuation/re
number of people transportati location areas
on and properly
disseminated
to community
people
Hard to reach areas not Construction/ 2012 Construc- PEO PEO # of kilometer
accessible by roads that rehabilitation of tion roads
hampers the delivery of roads equipments developed/
emergency services constructed
Technical
persons

Deforestation Regular planting of 2012 Planting ENRO PENRO/ # of seedling/

trees seeds and KSK trees planted
trees

IEC on forest Info

conservation materials
Poor environmental Education of 2012 Info PHO RSI/ HEPO # of IEC
sanitation /Solid waste community people materials materials
handling on proper waste distributed
disposal and
 importance of # of sessions
good sanitation conducted

Solid waste
management
(Segregation,
collection and
Disposal)
Proliferation of vector Public health 2012 Info PHO PHO/ RSI
breeding sites education materials
program
Personal
protection
LIVELIHOOD
- Farming in mountain Education on the 2012 Laws and Cluster DA # of livelihood
areas (Kaingin slash existing laws and policies agen- projects
and burn policies cies availed by
- Illegal logging Technical beneficiaries
- Fishing Enforcement of persons
- Agriculture laws
- Business/ tourism
industry Provide
- Transport alternative
- Mining livelihood
BIOLOGICAL PEOPLE
 Diarrhea / - Indigenous people IEC 2012 IEC IEC PHO Prog. # of
Cholera living in materials materials manager benefeciaries
 Malaria mountainous areas Advocacy for
 Dengue with limited access community
 Measles mobilization
 Emerging to health
diseases information Vector Control
(HIV/ - Displaced people - IRS # of Mosquito
AIDS) - Overcrowding - Mosquito net nets
- Increase risk of Distribution distributed/
children to - Mosquito Net re-treated
communicable Re-treatment and Houses
diseases sprayed
- Inadequate Environment
knowledge and poor modification # of cases
practices on the diagnosed
importance of Early Diagnosis through
hygiene, disease and Prompt BSMP and
prevention and Treatment treated
control

PROPERTIES
- Living in caves and
makeshift
- Houses without
toilets
- Houses made of light
materials

SERVICES Packages of
- Inadequate services
- Medical supplies,-
and equipments in
the BHS, RHU,
 Hospitals during
emergencies
- Health center
located in far flung
areas with limited
access to health
services including
supplies and
equipments
- Inadequate
communication
facilities used for
quick reporting due
to absence of
electricity and
equipments
- Food shortage
- Disruption of water
supply, electricity
and
telecommunication

ENVIRONMENT
- Streams, open dug Construction of 2012 Material Project CHD4- WASH # of water
wells & rivers are water system and budget Proposals B/DOH coordina- system
their source of for tor constructed
drinking water Level 1 & II and utilized
- Poor sanitation water s by community
systems people
 - No sanitary toilets Construction of 2012 Toilets for Toilets MLGU/ RHUs # of HH with
- 70% forest sanitary toilets every commu sanitary
households nity toilets and
leaders utilized
LIVELIHOOD
- Kaingin farming Introduction of 2012 Technicians technicians DA DA # of sessions
Alternative conducted
livelihood

- Illegal logging,
Mining
TABLE 6
Risk Assessment

Hazards Vulnerabilities Risks

NATURAL PEOPLE
 Flood  People living in areas easily flooded,  Injuries, Disability and Death
 Typhoon river banks, coastal and mountain
 Landslide range  Diseases
 Sea surge
 Limited knowledge and lack of sense  People displacement
of urgency among the community
leaders, volunteers and people on  Psychosocial and mental health
warning/alert signals problems

 Severe injuries among Elderly , PWDs,

children, Pregnant mothers and
lactating mothers

 Lack of resources (Hunger due to

insufficient food supply, clothing,
shelter, family support)

 Resulted to low resistance of the body

and can easily acquire respiratory
diseases and other communicable
diseases

 Short and long term mental health

effects
  Malnutrition

 Low immunization coverage

 Lack health professionals and human

resources

PROPERTIES
 Houses made of light material, located  Damage to infrastructure, utilities,
in areas easily flooded facilities and services

 Health facilities made of light materials  Diminishing resources

and dilapidated, damage medical
equipments and supplies  Eventual loss of property

 School building/evacuation centers

made of light materials, located in the
mountain, near the river banks and
seashores

 Absence / inadequate designated

number of ambulances and transport
vehicle

SERVICES
 Lack of public awareness on warning/  Breakdown in essential services
alert signals and other information
programs  Disruption of health services

 Depletion of shortage of supplies

  Lack/absence of public health, curative
care and mental health program  Lack source of income
coverage

 Inadequate supplies, facilities and

medicines

 Lack potable/ safe water supply

 Inadequate basic sanitary facilities

 Lack information regarding food safety

 Low vector control coverage

 Inadequate information on
construction standards of public sector
infrastructure

 Interrupted ambulance/ transport

services

 Low income

ENVIRONMENT
 Contaminated water supply and poor  Contamination
waste water disposal
  Low lying areas near the riverbanks &
dams and coastal water locked areas  Overcrowding/
Homeless/Displacement
 Poor home /evacuation sanitation due
to overcrowding, damage of structures

 Poor environmental sanitation /Solid

waste handling  Contamination/ diseases

 Improper Food handling/ spoilage of

refrigerated foods due to power
outages, flooding of facilities  Increase vector borne diseases

 Proliferation of vector breeding sites

 Hard to reach areas not accessible by

roads that hampers the delivery of
emergency services

 Deforestation

LIVELIHOOD
 Farming in mountain areas (Kaingin/ Loss of income
slash and burn)

 Illegal logging

 Fishing
  Agriculture

 Fishing

 Business/ tourism industry

 Transport

 Mining

BIOLOGICAL PEOPLE
 Diarrhea / Cholera  Indigenous people living in  Increased morbidity, mortality and
 Malaria mountainous areas with limited access disability
 Dengue to health information
 Measles
 Emerging diseases (HIV/AIDS)  Displaced people / Overcrowding

 Poor health condition susceptible to  Malnutrition

communicable diseases

 Inadequate knowledge and poor

practices on the importance of
hygiene, disease prevention and
control

 Low coverage of immunization

PROPERTIES
 Living in caves and makeshift and  contamination
houses made of light materials without  Diseases
 sanitary toilets

ENVIRONMENT
 Streams, open dug wells & rivers are
their source of drinking water
 Poor sanitation
 Contamination
 Breading places of Vector borne
diseases and water borne diseases

 No sanitary toilets

 70% forest

SERVICES
 Inadequate medical supplies and  Absence / interrupted medical and
equipments in the BHS, RHU, Hospitals public health services
during emergencies

 Health center located in far flung

areas with limited access to health
services including supplies and
equipments

 Inadequate communication facilities

used for quick reporting due to
absence of electricity and equipments

 Food shortage
  Disruption of water supply, electricity
and telecommunication

LIVELIHOOD
 Kaingin farming Loss of income

 Illegal logging

 Mining
 Health Service Contingency Plan
Identifying Gaps
Needs and Activities Inventory

7M’s NEEDS THAT ACTIVITIES TO AGENCIES LIKELY TO TIME FRAME

WILL ARISE MEET THE NEEDS UNDERTAKE (BY WHOM) (BY WHEN)
Mansion  Hospital facilities  Coordinate and ask for Provincial Health Office As soon as possible
serviceability assistance to utilize other
existing health facilities
 Medical Clinic set up in nearby or nearest
evacuation centers (Wescom Hospital/
District Hospitals of
 Environmental health Palawan)
sanitation
maintenance

Manpower  Additional trained  Call for all the health Provincial Health Office with As soon as possible
Health Personnel emergency response City Health Office
needed to address team members to
mass casualties respond

 Mobilize other health

personnel assigned or
stationed to the different
municipalities (Hospital
and RHU, including City,
private health personnel)

 Utilization of health
volunteers services in
 providing simple/ non –
technical health services

Machine  Limited medical  Request for assistance Provincial Health Office As soon as possible
equipment or tools for immediate provision
that could not cope up of additional equipment,
with the demand including transport
vehicle (from DOH,
 Limited transportation private, local, National
vehicle health agencies)

Message/  Communication  Utilization of unaffected Provincial Health Office As soon as possible

Communication disruption (damage to communication unit
communication (radio communication,
facilities) cell site that were not
affected)

Money  Immediate source of  Request for the Provincial Health Office As soon as possible
funds for procurement utilization of Calamity
of needed supplies fund upon the approval
and materials etc. of Sanggunian

Materials  Medical supplies  Request for additional/ Provincial Health Office As soon as possible
depletion because of replenishment of
increase in demand medical supplies, from
and other materials National, local
for maintenance of government)
operation
Management  Unprepared Health  Involves processes Provincial Health Office with Before, during, after a
Unit preparedness for PDRRMC disaster.
disaster/ emergency
readiness (Organize/
plan/ monitor etc.)