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1/ THREAD: Responses to Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda was one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded. GCSE students need to evaluate responses, however many resources list these without mentioning impacts on the community.
Lesson at end.
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Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda was one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded. GCSE students need to evaluate responses, however many resources list these without mentioning impacts on the community.
Lesson at end.
#GeographyTeacher
2/ International government and aid agencies responded with food aid, water and temporary shelters. The communities responded quicker than the international agencies were expecting.
3/ One reason was because the UK government agencies hired partners based on personal connections rather than relevant experience working in similar middle income countries.
4/ Their lack of country-specific knowledge about the Philippines slowed progress on aid distribution, as well as providing appropriate aid in the first place.
5/ The government’s own evaluation of the situation stated that “a ‘one size fits all’ approach to humanitarian disasters without considering context and national government capacity is highly problematic”.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/501225/Eval-Humanitarian-Response-Typhoon-Haiyan.pdf
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/501225/Eval-Humanitarian-Response-Typhoon-Haiyan.pdf
6/ Fishing boats were supplied by aid agencies such as Oxfam. Yet, due to a lack of coordination between charities, some individuals ended up with three boats, which ended up unused.
7/ Some boats were given to people who had never fished before, leading to ill will between some community members. https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/more-boats-fishermen-typhoon-hit-philippines
8/ As charities prioritised helping fishers, very little help was available to farmers, factory workers and people working in the informal sector. Coconut farmers received scant provisions compared to fishers & most financial support was given to male-dominated industries.
9/ The opportunities for women included micro-entrepreneurship opportunities to set up sari-sari stores (small local stalls that sell a variety of household goods). These were popular with women and there was high demand for this type of support.
10/ However, these excluded women with caregiving responsibilities who could not attend the training. The most successful sari-sari stores were run pre-existing business owners (Eadie et al, 2020) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-020-03984-z
11/ Thousands of new homes were built away from areas at risk from flooding. Some traditional household occupations such as the raising of pigs were banned in the resettlements, depriving households of a source of income.
12/ Some people returned to their original places of residence in unsafe areas to continue in their previous roles. Furthermore, infrastructure in the newly built resettlement areas were still unfinished six years after the typhoon (Eadie et al, 2020)
13/ This information, plus links to exam questions can be found in the lesson below. It also uses Ethical Global Issues pedagogy @karenpashby to critique media / NGO reports of the responses. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13_B8zKan-AbbJ1FLJumwV0F_5IBKrGS_1O9O17r307Q/edit#slide=id.gd0af545143_0_0
