Evacuation Center

Emergency Shelter

Emergency Shelter

Refers to any facility, the primary purpose of which is to provide a temporary shelter for the homeless in general or for specific populations of the homeless and which does not require occupants to sign leases or occupancy agreements.

DSWD Emergency Shelter Assistance

Meant to assist family victims of disaster to acquire decent shelters. It is made available to family-victims whose houses were totally or partially destroyed by either natural or human induced disasters.

Post-Disaster Shelter Recovery Policy Framework

To establish a guide for continuous improvement of the country’s capacity to ensure full recovery of households and communities affected by natural disasters.

Risk reduction

Shelter recovery and development will direct investment away from highhazard zones, where risk-mitigation measures are not feasible, and encourage safe building practices to minimize the future loss of lives and damages to buildings and infrastructure.

Good governance

Planning and implementation of recovery activities are based on policies, procedures, and organizational structures, which are modified when necessary to facilitate recovery without undermining fiscal discipline and good governance.

Local self-determination

Local management of recovery based on locally defined outcomes is the preferred approach, which is augmented when required by capacity support from the center or other localities.

Building back better

Used to increase the community’s physical, social, and economic resilience and ability to recover from future shocks.

Integrated recovery

Affordable access to public transport, health services, markets, and schools is assured in both in-situ recovery and new settlement sites.

Cost-effectiveness

Household and private sector contributions are encouraged.

Risk-sharing

Recovery approaches promote risk identification and risk-sharing and the reduction of the government’s financial exposure over time

Transparency

Recovery planning is outcome-oriented, and implementation results are reported on a timely basis

ES-1 Evacuation centers

Provide safe locations for groups of individuals to seek refuge in during an emergency period and immediately afterward

ES-2 Host families

Individuals and households who relocate to another private home before or immediately after an emergency event are in a “hosting” situation.

ES-3 Shelter in place

Households may __________ during emergencies, even if given a notification to evacuate.

TS-1 Host families

Hosting arrangements that extend into the transitional period are an important source of transitional shelter

TS-2 Self-settlement

Households can find a temporary shelter solution, carry out temporary repairs to their housing, or construct a temporary solution on the site of their damaged home or nearby

TS-3 Temporary housing

For some disasters, government will use public resources to hire private contractors to build bunkhouses or other temporary structures

TS-4 Collective centers

similar to evacuation centers but are used for the transitional period. They can be housed in a public space, a private building such as a motel, or in a specially constructed building.

TS-5 IDP Camps

Used only when the level of damage and displacement exceeds the capacity of other transitional modalities to absorb the population and will be kept open for the minimum time necessary.

SF-1 Unsupported repair/reconstruction

Currently the most common postdisaster shelter recovery modality in the Philippines, especially for shelter recovery on existing sites

SF-2 Owner-managed repair/reconstruction with technical support

Technical support is provided to ensure that the repair and reconstruction work of individual households results in safe shelter

SF-3 Community-managed repair/reconstruction with technical support

Under this modality, neighbors establish community groups to manage shelter recovery, often with the assistance of a local or international NGO

SF-4 Agency-managed, contractor-built new construction

Contractor-built post-disaster construction may be employed when large-scale resettlement and new shelter construction is the only feasible alternative

SF-5 Relocation/resettlement

Involves the movement of households from a high-risk site following a disaster, as the result of family or community decisions or an organized relocation/ resettlement program.

SF-6 Basic service provision and DRR

Stable communities depend not only on shelter recovery, but on the provision of basic services (water, sanitation, etc.) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in construction or reconstruction sites.

MF-1 Repair/reconstruction support for landlords

Landlords have an incentive to return damaged or destroyed rental stock to the market quickly, which benefits them, the displaced tenants, and the local economy.

MF-2 Assistance to displaced tenants and other households

Recovery assistance for displaced households unable to return to their shelter or land can take many forms and cover various periods of time.