Philippines Community Resilience Project - Pagkilos

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Pagkilos is a community resilience project which aims to strengthen resilience in vulnerable and poor areas. The project targets 500 vulnerable municipalities in rural areas selected based on high poverty incidence, high level of exposure to natural and climate hazards, presence of indigenous people and high rates of malnutrition. The Project will target and ensure inclusion of vulnerable populations at-risk from impacts from natural hazards and climate change, including 4P beneficiaries, Indigenous People and women, and will be implemented over a five-year period. The Project will have four components: (i) Community Resilience: Strengthening risk informed planning through a participatory locally-led process and financing resilience investments, including rehabilitation or construction of small resilience infrastructure (green and grey) and livelihood infrastructure and practices; (ii) Institutional Support for Local Resilience: Support for capacity building of project staff and partner agencies for enhanced local risk-informed planning; and a resilience knowledge platform to put in place risk resilience planning resources and tools for communities as well as barangay and municipal local government units; (iii) Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Management; and (iv) a Contingent Emergency Response Component. The Project will be implemented and managed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) through the existing Kalahi community platform, which delivers through locally-led development. The Kalahi platform has through the last 20 years accumulated invaluable capacity for service delivery at the local level and this mechanism, with a proven track record for delivery and results, is therefore well placed to support the critical and urgent agenda on local resilience. The DSWD, who will lead the coordination and oversight of project implementation, has as its core mandate to support community resilience. DSWD will be supported by the Department of Interior and Local Government, which has a mandate for government planning and National Commission for Indigenous People.