ECHO with OXFAM, IFRC and IOM: Working together for humanitarian aid in Guinobatan, Albay

• Main Authors: Dy, Nelfa A., Hernandez, Jenny Joy, Rubis, Nicole Pauline R.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Humanitarian assistance > Philippines > Albay; Disaster relief > Philippines
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/7402
• Institution: De La Salle University

In November 30, 2006, the super typhoon Reming devastated the province of Albay. Guinobatan, Albay was one of the areas which badly needed humanitarian relief. ECHO, as a benefactor, partnered with three international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) namely OXFAM- GB, IFRC, and IOM. These INGOs would implement and monitor the projects funded by ECHO. In this study, the partnership of ECHO with the three INGOs and its effect to the success of the response to the typhoon Reming victims in Guinobatan, Albay is discussed. This made use of qualitative data from interviews, documents such as newspaper and online articles, government documents, from data gathered during direct observation, and from the focused group discussion (FGD). The Alliance theory was the theoretical framework used in analyzing the impact of the partnership of the organizations. This theory purports the processes related to the alliance decisions made by the organizations. In this study, it was shown that the partnership of ECHO with OXFAM, IFRC, and IOM had positive effects on the implementation of humanitarian assistance to the victims of typhoon Reming in Guinobatan Albay. The involvement of partner humanitarian INGOs is more effective in the fulfillment of humanitarian projects rather than the ECHO acting by itself or any INGO implementing alone. Partnering with other organizations where one side becomes the funder and the other side becomes the project planner and implementer makes humanitarian aid more effective since each side could supplement the insufficiencies of the other.