Presidential Adviser
on Special Concerns Wendel Avisado, the official tapped by President Rodrigo R.
Duterte to check post-“Yolanda” rehabilitation, will lead the consultation next
month, said National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Regional
Director Bonifacio Uy on Thursday.
NEDA, the agency
tasked to monitor government-led post-Yolanda recovery initiatives, will host a
meeting on Feb. 20 with regional heads of national government agencies in the
region.
Avisado will preside
the meeting where schedules of the three-week provincial consultation will be
presented to concerned agencies.
“The presidential
adviser wants to know the status of projects and what the remaining issues and
concerns are in the project implementation phase,” Uy said.
The NEDA regional
chief said the consultation will focus on unfinished housing and livelihood
projects along Yolanda’s path in four of the region’s provinces – Leyte, Samar,
Eastern Samar, and Biliran.
In Eastern Visayas
alone, only 12,000 out of 56,000 target permanent houses for typhoon survivors
have been completed last year. Most of these housing units are in this city.
The NHA targets to build 14,433 units in this city alone. About 9,000 houses
have been awarded to beneficiaries.
NEDA confirmed
several projects under the livelihood cluster had not yet begun in Eastern
Visayas last year.
Consultations will be
held in towns where projects are delayed to ensure that concerns of
stakeholders will be heard.
On Nov. 8, 2013,
super typhoon Yolanda unleashed its wrath in central Philippines, killing
around 6,300 people and leaving more than 4.4 million people displaced and
homeless.
The city, the
regional hub of Eastern Visayas region, was considered as Yolanda’s ground
zero. (SQM/PNA/Feature photo courtesy of Leyte Metropolitan Water
District)
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