Comprehensive houselhold vulnerability and capacities analysis: Camarines Sur and Catanduanes, Bicol region, Phillipines

Community-based disaster risk reduction project, Bicol region, Philippines:

This comprehensive household vulnerability and risk study aims to improve the evidence base for disaster risk management (DRM) and initiate effective DRM practice of Disaster Coordinating Councils (DCCs) and community members in addressing root causes and reducing exposure and vulnerabilities of people and their socio-economic condition in the province of Catanduanes and Camarines Sur in the Philippines. It is expected to complement and reinforce the on-going multi-hazard mapping and the Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Assessment (PCVA) conducted by the project.

The study intends to contribute to widening the database of vulnerabilities of households residing in disaster prone areas in Camarines Sur and Catanduanes. The expected target stakeholders involved in disaster risk reduction and development, local governments, the scientific warning agencies as well as the development planning and finance agencies and the local population itself.