USAID Rebuild: Building Resilient Communities | Philippines Typhoon Yolanda (internationally named Haiyan) devastated the Philippines’ Visayas region on November 8, 2013. Eastern Visayas is the most a?ected region with a population of 3.6 million people and an estimated recovery cost of $8.1 billion. Challenge On average, 20 tropical storms enter Philippine waters and roughly 50% of these make landfall. In Eastern Visayas, failure to prepare for Typhoon Yolanda resulted in loss of lives, damage to properties and destruction of livelihood sources. This required that people “build back better,” a concept that will not only bring back normalcy to their lives but will also increase their resilience by building on their capacities to mitigate environmental vulnerabilities. Solution In 2014, the

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