Case study
Recovering and rehabilitating livelihoods
Improving local service provision system in the vegetable market in the Philippines
Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most devastating storms to hit Easter Samar province at the end of 2013, damaged an estimated 42 million coconut trees in the province alone. As coconut has been occupying 26 per cent of the agricultural land and the main source of income for farmers in this region, the typhoon destroyed the overall livelihoods of the people in the region.
Taking this vulnerability into consideration, the Recovering and Rehabilitating Livelihoods Project was designed with the objective of building the resilience of communities affected by typhoon Haiyan through sustainable income.
The project assessment revealed that factors such as limited access to high quality inputs, knowledge, technology/practices and pro-poor-enterprise-friendly financial products and services, and lack of business skills and functional market linkages inhibited the growth of the vegetables subsector.