Fisherfolk and representatives from civil society organizations discuss rehabilitation and recovery in fisheries and aquaculture.
Internally displaced persons, Civil Society Organizations from different sectors, Non-Government Organizations, International Non-Government Organizations and representatives from the academe and the Local Government Units all over Tacloban City have gathered at the Leyte Park CCA Hall last July 22, 2015 to discuss one of the most pressing issues revolving around Post-Yolanda Recovery and Rehabilitation Phase – Resettlement of the inhabitants from the Barangays in San Jose to the northern Barangays in the city.
In this forum, also known as the Tacloban Resettlement Forum, key matters and issuesrevolving around the situations of the IDPs – like provision of shelters and restorative livelihood to the IDPs, situation of the IDPs a year after having survived typhoon Haiyan, consequences of resettlement to fisher folk communities that are to leave their fishing communities, LGUs development plans for Uptown Tacloban City and the resettlement sites and in Northern Tacloban, alleged poor quality of the shelters in the resettlement areas, as well as the issues revolving around the Yolanda survivors’ inability to avail certain aid from the government like the ESA – were raised, aired out, tackled and argued on by the participants from the different sectors, NGOs, INGOs and LGUs.
This forum was made possible by the collective efforts and active collaboration of the organizations namely OXFAM, Urban Poor Associates (UPA), Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, Christian Aid, NGOs for Fisheries Reform (NFR), Eastern Visayas Network of NGOs and POs (EVNet) as well as all the participating members of the different sectors, agencies and organizations in this event.
Article written by Ms. Hannah Hippe
