Report: The After Action Review/ Lessons Learned Workshops Typhoon Bopha Response

Three workshops were conducted to elicit the views of those responding to the emergency and three days of community consultations also took place separately to garner feedback from people directly affected. This was the first time the community were asked to provide feedback. With full participation and support of senior government officials from the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), local government units and agencies, and governors in Regions XI and XIII, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Trento, Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley coordinated the workshops and consultations to ensure a broad range of views were elicited.

The impact of the typhoon varied from area to area; for example in Barangay (village) Andap in Compostela Valley province the equivalent of one million trucks filled with rocks decimated homes and caused most deaths, while in Davao Oriental wind gusts of 220 km per hour caused most damage, felling about six million coconut trees. Due to varying levels of devastation and different levels of response and preparedness from barangay to barangay, feedback from the workshops and consultations are varied and sometimes seem inconsistent.

Workshops:
Nabunturan, Compostela Valley, 8 April 2013 Mati, Davao Oriental, 12 April 2013 Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur, 16 April 2013
Community Consultations:
Compostela Valley, 24 April 2013 Agusan del Sur, Surigao del Sur, 26 April 2013 Davao Oriental, 30 April 2013