Of timelines and timeliness: lessons from Typhoon Haiyan in early disaster response

Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on 8 November 2013 with maximum sustained winds of 235 kilometres per hour, adversely affecting at least 11 million people and displacing some 673,000 in the central regions of the country. The disaster clearly overwhelmed the Philippine government despite its s...

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Main Authors: Santiago, Joseph Sedfrey S, Manuela, Wilfred S, Jr, Tan, Marion Lara L, Sañez, Siegfried Kiel, Tong, Aldo Zelig U
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
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Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/marketing-and-law-faculty-pubs/1
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12178
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.marketing-and-law-faculty-pubs-10002020-05-20T08:26:09Z Of timelines and timeliness: lessons from Typhoon Haiyan in early disaster response Santiago, Joseph Sedfrey S Manuela, Wilfred S, Jr Tan, Marion Lara L Sañez, Siegfried Kiel Tong, Aldo Zelig U Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on 8 November 2013 with maximum sustained winds of 235 kilometres per hour, adversely affecting at least 11 million people and displacing some 673,000 in the central regions of the country. The disaster clearly overwhelmed the Philippine government despite its seemingly well‐crafted disaster management plan. Using timelines of different organisations, this paper identifies gaps in the government's response, mainly due to its failure in coordinating and managing relief operations, which adversely affected its effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of critical goods and services following the disaster. The paper also demonstrates how non‐governmental organisations (NGOs), the United Nations, foreign governments and other organisations provided assistance, mainly through aid niching, to cover the government's shortcomings. The paper recommends a paradigm shift in the government's disaster response by integrating collaborative arrangements between government agencies and NGOs, and giving local governments the lead role, with the national government as support, in disaster planning and response. 2016-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/marketing-and-law-faculty-pubs/1 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12178 Marketing and Law Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Law Marketing Law
institution Ateneo De Manila University
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topic Law
Marketing Law
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Marketing Law
Santiago, Joseph Sedfrey S
Manuela, Wilfred S, Jr
Tan, Marion Lara L
Sañez, Siegfried Kiel
Tong, Aldo Zelig U
Of timelines and timeliness: lessons from Typhoon Haiyan in early disaster response
description Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on 8 November 2013 with maximum sustained winds of 235 kilometres per hour, adversely affecting at least 11 million people and displacing some 673,000 in the central regions of the country. The disaster clearly overwhelmed the Philippine government despite its seemingly well‐crafted disaster management plan. Using timelines of different organisations, this paper identifies gaps in the government's response, mainly due to its failure in coordinating and managing relief operations, which adversely affected its effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of critical goods and services following the disaster. The paper also demonstrates how non‐governmental organisations (NGOs), the United Nations, foreign governments and other organisations provided assistance, mainly through aid niching, to cover the government's shortcomings. The paper recommends a paradigm shift in the government's disaster response by integrating collaborative arrangements between government agencies and NGOs, and giving local governments the lead role, with the national government as support, in disaster planning and response.
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author Santiago, Joseph Sedfrey S
Manuela, Wilfred S, Jr
Tan, Marion Lara L
Sañez, Siegfried Kiel
Tong, Aldo Zelig U
author_facet Santiago, Joseph Sedfrey S
Manuela, Wilfred S, Jr
Tan, Marion Lara L
Sañez, Siegfried Kiel
Tong, Aldo Zelig U
author_sort Santiago, Joseph Sedfrey S
title Of timelines and timeliness: lessons from Typhoon Haiyan in early disaster response
title_short Of timelines and timeliness: lessons from Typhoon Haiyan in early disaster response
title_full Of timelines and timeliness: lessons from Typhoon Haiyan in early disaster response
title_fullStr Of timelines and timeliness: lessons from Typhoon Haiyan in early disaster response
title_full_unstemmed Of timelines and timeliness: lessons from Typhoon Haiyan in early disaster response
title_sort of timelines and timeliness: lessons from typhoon haiyan in early disaster response
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2016
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/marketing-and-law-faculty-pubs/1
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12178
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