Since its formation, Team Through Team Albay’s

Albay has been sent to 18 Community Development and

Economic Caravan (TACDEC)
humanitarian missions
Every year, an average of 20 tropical cyclones program and the pooling of
including the aftermath of logistical resources, Team Albay
enters the Philippines. Geographically located in the
Pacific coast of the country, Albay is not only super typhoon Yolanda in can stay on top of disasters
susceptible to calamities brought by these storms Leyte and Samar, and the before they strike and also help
but also by the adverse effects of having an active rescue of stranded climbers in the economic development of
volcano in its midst. As one of the provinces often communities
and retrieval of the dead
placed under a state of calamity when natural
disasters hit the region, the LGU promoted a culture when Mayon Volcano erupted
of readiness to disasters. in 2013.
In 2007, Team Albay was formed as a community
driven, disaster preparedness, volunteer corps that
can mobilize within 24 hours and be the first unit to
arrive on the scene of a disaster and provide

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humanitarian relief to critical areas

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Albay Humanitarian Assistance Program
2015 Gawad Pook Awardee
Reported by: Ronie E. Alpajaro
Community Problem it Address
z CHALLENGE It showcase
LGU’s
resilience in
 Multi-hazards: the face of
climate and disasters and
geological emergencies

 Persistent poverty
Conducts psychosocial
 Net resource
and medical intervention,
hemorrhage water sanitation, rescue
and recovery, feeding
program, engineering
intervention, and post-
disaster planning in and
outside of Albay

APSEMO Albay’s TACDEC brings

(Albay Public Safety and
together different
Emergency Management
sectors of stakeholders
Office)
to provide services and
information to the
grassroots. Adequate
and necessary
information and services
on health, education,
livelihood, and vital
economic programs are
provided for the most
vulnerable populations
Galing Pook Award Criteria Qualification
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POSITIVE RESULTS Promotion of People’s
AND IMPACT Participation and
Empowerment
 Zero casualty Apart from relief operations,
Team Albay conducts
 Surge in private psychosocial and medical
investments intervention, water sanitation,
rescue and recovery, feeding
 Fastest growth
program, engineering
among regions
intervention, and post-disaster
planning in and outside of
 MDGs achieved
Albay. When not engaged
ahead of 2015
in humanitarian operations, the
 Two national laws volunteers also act as Tourism
enacted used Albay Protocol Officers or engage in
model development work as members
of Team Albay’s Community
Development and Economic
Caravan (TACDEC).
INNOVATION Transferability and Efficiency of Program
Sustainability Service Delivery
⚫ Risk Mapping
What is innovative is the Through its partnership ⚫ Comprehensive Land Use
pooling of resources with the LGU, the Team Plans
for Team Albay. is also permitted to ⚫ Integration into PDP, PDIP, AIP,
PPMP
access the local
Through the TACDEC ⚫ Geostrategic Intervention (Go)
disaster risk reduction
program and the pooling ⚫ Relocation (Go)
and management
⚫ Engineering Interventions
of logistical resources, fund.
(Defend)
Team Albay can stay on ⚫ Social Preparations (Run)
top of disasters before In the effort to make
⚫ Community-based Warning
they strike and also help Albay disaster-resilient, and Evacuation Planning
in the economic Team Albay has also ⚫ Close coordination with
development of been tasked to Warning Agencies
communities. undertake outreach ⚫ Capacity Build-up
programs in the ⚫ Mobility Assets
communities and ⚫ Permanent Evacuation Center
⚫ Disaster Response
promote disaster-
⚫ Pre-emptive Evacuation
preparedness
⚫ Pre-emptive Healthcare
advocacy and ⚫ Cluster Approach to Early
awareness Recovery
PA PRINCIPLES IN THEIR BEST PRACTICES
z RA 10121 or “The Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Act of 2010“ that mandates to institutionalize a Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management Office aside from the Council.

Good Governance RA 9729 or “The Climate Change Commission Law of 2009”

Build-Back-Better
Accountability
Public Sector Management & Public Financial Management

Participation of beneficiaries and affected groups,

Participation Interference between government and the private sector,

Decentralization of public and service delivery functions, &
Cooperation with NGOs
Economy and
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Predictability Law of Development & Legal Frameworks for Private Sector
Development
Efficiency -
Transparency
provision of public
Disclosure of Information
services at the
FRAMEWORK OF GOOD GOVERNANCE minimum cost
Asian Development Bank, 2005 cited in a tabular form in Briliantes and Fernadez, 2008

Behavioural Approach
 Lessons Learned "the best time to help the people is before the disaster
rather than after the disaster"
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 Promotes culture of readiness to we only grow by giving
disaster
 Making change at the grassroots "Let the people know that there is a government that cares
level (replicability of the program for them"
down to the barangay level) "Simple lang yan, Kaya Mo Yan!"
 Responsiveness to public needs
 Based on community of people’s
value
 The program is institutional that
it carried out and reflects the
management styles of the Local
chief executives
 It is about the people and the
Thank You!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BigW5n2O6mc&t=894s
enhancement of their knowledge,
(2266) Social Good Summit 2015: Joey Salceda, Albay Governor - YouTube
attitude, and skills in coping
with the disaster