Policy Recommendations
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These findings are based on field data collected from informant interviews, focus group discussions with various stakeholders, documents review, and a survey of 800 households in selected communities of Palo, Tanauan and Tacloban City, yearly from 2015 to 2017.
Data about aid received, recovery, community support, and employment and livelihood were gathered to identify strategies for poverty alleviation in the wake of a disaster.
This policy brief, released on the fourth anniversary of typhoon Yolanda, discusses the partial results of the field research on poverty alleviation in the wake of Yolanda. This paper discusses challenges and recommend solutions in areas of engagement with communities, policy makers, local and international NGOs and women.