Suitability and Accessibility of the Relocation Site (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

This chapter analyzed closely the suitability and accessibility of the Southville Rodriguez Housing Project (SRHP), a government relocation site for Typhoon Ketsana victims in the Philippines, vis-a-vis the legal provisions of international conventions on post-disaster recovery of displaced persons and the country’s Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Act of 2010 (PDRRMA) on post-disaster management of disaster victims. It examined the official laws and standards regarding the selection and accessibility of relocation sites for disaster victims under the “build back better” (BBB) principle and described the extent of conformity of the current resettlement of the Typhoon Ketsana victims to these standards. Owing to corruption and undue benefits given by the government to its accredited private developers of resettlements, the conditions of the relocation site of Typhoon Ketsana victims in SRHP largely deviated from the international standards and provisions of PDRRMA regarding the sui...

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