Household Disaster Resiliency on Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda): The Case of Manicani Island, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Philippines

Abstract

A survey of 114 households residing in Manicani Island on their capital assets and coping strategies as determinants of their resiliency on Typhoon Haiyan was undertaken. KII and FG validated the survey results. Relationship between capital assets and coping strategies was determined using chi-square test and their degree of association was determined using phi coefficient and Cramer's V. Results showed that (a) the households' house condition before the typhoon and knowledge of the typhoon were moderately associated (0.22 to 0.23) with securing houses at 0.05 significance level; (b) the educational attainment of household head was moderately associated (0.34) with safekeeping of household assets/personal belongings at 0.01 significance level; (c) the condition of the house after the typhoon, length of time before house reconstruction and person in-charge in reconstruction have moderate to relatively strong association (0.28 to 0.44) with the housing recovery of the households at 0.01 significance level; and (d) livestock ownership after the typhoon and person in charge in house reconstruction were weakly to moderately related (0.17 to 0.26) with the household's income recovery at 0.10 and 0.05 significance level, respectively. This implies that capital assets are important in coping with disasters. The local government can use these results for planning and improving its disaster risk reduction and management program especially on extreme events similar to Typhoon Yolanda.

Keywords:

• Households disaster resiliency
• capital assets
• coping capacity
• Typhoon Haiyan aka Yolanda