2025 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 92
Introduction and Purpose/Objectives: Every time a disaster happens, people faces unexpected situations which need highly flexible and collaborative actions by all players and resources working together. Nevertheless, emergency collaboration is difficult and often works far unexpectedly especially in case that such collaboration is agreed as a special case for emergency.
Objective: The ACECC TC21 team investigated the cases of Ormoc and Tacloban in Leyte Island, the Philippines and identified its difficulty and confusion during and after disasters.
Methods: Key informants interview were conducted in the different levels of local governance in the two cities. Village leaders and city-level bureaucrats and key personnel of national government agencies participated in the qualitative study.
Results and Discussion: The common bottlenecks found on TDA were such as difficulties of coordination between central and local governments; lack of participation of residents; lack of personnel continuity in responsible public offices; lack of knowledge and information flows; difficulty of intragovernmental collaboration at emergency; lack of trusted local leaders; lack of community members’ mutual support network (social capital); lack of local S&T experts etc. Among them, intra-governmental coordination is central in alleviating all forms of suffering of disasters. Extreme events cross administrative and political boundaries. It requires pooling of financial and technical resources as well as expertise in an organized manner. Hence, collaboration is more critical and difficult under urgency, so that it should be developed, institutionalized and operated in normal time.
