DISASTER RESPONSE

Through the Cordillera indigenous peoples’ traditional practice of support system (ub-obfo, mabtad, binnadang, innabuyog, gamal, ob-obbo) in times of either man-made or natural calamities and emergency, members of communities mobilize and collectively work for the immediate relief and rescue of victims, rehabilitation of destroyed private or communal properties, search missions for missing people, and other necessary actions deemed necessary by the affected and the rescuing communities. The Cordillera Peoples Alliance promotes this traditional practice of disaster response through its program on socio-economic services that is carried out by the CPA People’s Welfare Commission. The People’s Welfare Commission coordinates services, disaster response and other initiatives through the Serve the People Brigade – Cordillera Disaster Response Network. For instance in 2009, when super typhoon Pepeng hit the Cordillera region, the Serve the People Brigade-Cordillera Disaster Response Network immediately mobilized volunteers and resources and provided relief and rehabilitation services especially to the areas that were not reached by government relief services.

Statements and Articles

• Cordillera Peoples Alliance - Mountain Province response to the comments of Youth Leaders Summit-Mountain Province Chapter on the dropping of government propaganda leaflets by AFP choppers on Easter Sunday
• On Sadanga Mayor Gabino Ganggangan’s public notice regarding relief packs: Are Sadanga people really not in need of relief?
• URGENT APPEAL: SUPPORT THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND GROUPS ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY COVID-19 IN THE CORDILLERA
• The Cordillera Peoples Alliance calls for urgent and concrete support for our food producers...
• Serve the People Brigade appeals for support for communities affected by disasters
• Cordillera Peoples Alliance-Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera Position Paper on REDD+: Presented during the Color it REDD-Plus Philippine Roadshow on REDD+ and the PNRPS
• Panagtitinnulong: Community Disaster Response in Itogon, Benguet
• CPA Statement on Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples and Self Determination

2009 Typhoon Pepeng Disaster Response

• Serve the People Brigade: Urgent Appeal for Support for the Victims of Typhoon Pedring and Quiel in Ifugao Province, Cordillera Region
• Serve the People Brigade-Cordillera Disaster Response Network Thanks and Acknowledgement to All Donors and Volunteers
• Serve The People Brigade: Urgent Appeal for Support for the Victims of Typhoon Pepeng in the Cordillera
• October 11 Update: Cordillera Still in State of Calamity; Rescue, Relief and Retrieval Missions Very Needed
• October 12 Update: Relief, Retrieval and Medical Missions Sought in the Cordillera; Many Communities Still Inaccessible
• October 14 Update: Hunger Besets Cordillera Communities; Greater Public Support Needed
• October 15 Update: Serve the People Brigade Extends Relief Services to 600 families in Baguio, Itogon, Tublay; Many Communities Still Needing Urgent Aid
• Serve the People Brigade-Cordillera Disaster Response Networ: Our Thanks and Acknowledgement
• Serve the People Brigade-Cordillera Disaster Response Network Reaches Out to Isolated Communities of Bokod, Mankayan in Benguet Province; Abra and Mountain Province Needing Relief and Rehabilitation
• Serve the People Brigade-Cordillera Disaster Response Network Urgent Appeal for Continuing Relief and Rehabilitation for Victims of Typhoon Pepeng in the Cordillera, Philippines
• Serve the People Brigade-Cordillera Disaster Response Network: Thanks and Acknowledgement