Network Analysis of Actors Working to Support Disaster Preparedness and Resilience in the Philippines

Author(s)
Pham, P. , Bollettino, V. , Vinck, P. , Marnicio, A. , Manzanero, L. , Toldo, M. , Dickinson, R. , Smart, A. & Bloom, E.
Pages
74pp
Date published
06 Apr 2021
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Local capacity, Multi-sector/cross-sector, Development & humanitarian aid, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disasters, humanitarian action, NGOs, Recovery and Resillience
Countries
Philippines
Organisations
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Link
https://hhi.harvard.edu/publications/network-analysis-actors-working-support-disaster-preparedness

The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) partnered with Root Change to conduct a network analysis of actors working to support disaster preparedness and resilience in the Philippines. The study design is modelled after a summative phase external evaluation that HHI conducted in 2016-2017 on the START Network’s Disasters and Emergency Preparedness Program (DEPP). Network analysis techniques applied in this evaluation have been adapted from the DEPP work to analyze the disaster resilience network in coastal Bangladesh under the Resilient Communities Program. In this report, we present the network analysis and methods used. We also detail findings and recommendations for HHI and other in-country partners about how these results can inform programs to strengthen disaster resilience and climate change in the Philippines.

The purpose of this network analysis research had two goals:

1) To understand the relationships among actors supporting disaster preparedness and resilience work in the Philippines; and

2) To develop a representation of the disaster preparedness and resilience system in the Philippines through a depiction of the structure and characteristics of the relationships among the actors that make up the system.

Authors: 
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative