International

CHAPTER 2

Review of Related Studies and Literature

This chapter contains different books and various studies, journals, magazines and articles that was related to the study that the researcher conducted. It also served as a supporting documents for this study.

Local Literature

The National Disaster Management Program (2013), Disaster response in the Philippines is truly a multi-sectoral and mass-based endeavor. A major contingent to the disaster management structure is composed of civic organization, non-government organization, people's organizations, and all forms of religious and social voluntary groupings. Partly because of their democratic political experience, the high public awareness of the destructiveness of disaster, and partly because the institutional framework for disaster management has encouraged it, popular participation of the Filipino people in disaster response is very broad, sustained, enthusiastic, organized and ultimately decisive.

Private organizations have filled gaps in the government response as well as augmented strained officials capacities. These include services such as medical care, search and rescue, emergency housing and feeding, and many other needs. Initiatives in resource mobilization have allowed the country to tap aid from unaffected areas to flow to affected areas. Many social institutions like Church, the schools, the media and professional associations have become channels for popular participation in disaster management.

This broad response of the civil society provided the Philippine disaster response with a depth and strength gained only from the cruel lessons of recent disasters. This may be an important silver lining to dark clouds of disaster which had the threatened the nation.

National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan – NDRRMP (2015), The NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MANAGEMENT PLAN is guided by good governance principles within the context of poverty alleviation and environmental protection....