An Intervention Model on Community-Based Disaster Approach Towards Pandemic Resiliency

Abstract

This paper focuses on the initiatives of academe and research consortium in Northern Mindanao, Philippines, to respond to the Government's call for Bayanihan to Heal as One Act (RA 11469), Technology Transfer Act of 2009 (RA 10055), and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. This paper aims to develop an intervention model using a community-based approach during the pandemic. Specifically, it highlighted the series of strategies and activities toward implementing the intervention model. Using descriptive research design and data gathering through interviews, Focus Group Discussions (FGD), consultative meetings, and site validation. Findings reveal that a collaborative effort is essential in crafting an intervention project before its actual process.

Seven steps were identified in the development of an intervention model using a community-based approach such as the call for implementing agencies, development of the project conceptual framework, development of project implementation process framework, setting up of the project deliverables, identification of the project sites and beneficiaries, identification of technologies, and identification of potential linkage and partners. In conclusion, an intervention model for a community-based approach is a process involving partnership as a support system that should be need-based and disaster-specific; thus, it will need a different approach for its successful implementation. An intervention model must be properly designed to address the specific challenges and needs of the beneficiaries for any community-based project to be sustainable.

Keywords: Community-based, disaster, resiliency, intervention model, sustainability