Abstract
The study yields insights on the community-based actions for pandemic management in two urban resettlement sites in the Philippines. Studies that interrogate the origins of community-based actions in government-built resettlement sites during the pandemic have been scant. We investigated in two communities how social capital, community organizing, and collective action intersected in wielding the community leaders’ combined agency in building their own COVID-19 management system. The data were collected through phone interviews with community leaders and residents during the lockdown period. In a context of low local government support, the communities proved their ability to build their pandemic management system. Nonetheless, one community was much quicker in setting up the crisis management system and was even able to adjust it to the shifting quarantine policies and corresponding needs of the residents. The notable differences between the two communities can be attributed to their different community organizing experience and different stocks of social capital.
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Notes
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Data based on Joly Homes Foundation 2019 Socio-Economic Census in Southville 7.
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Two layers of community leaders are present in Southville 7-the Homeowners’ Associations (HOA) leaders who are elected to different positions by the HOA members and the block leaders who represent the residents in each block. Unlike the HOA leaders, the block leaders have been chosen to represent their own block by majority of their block residents and report to the HOA leaders.
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Under the ECQ, the Barangay issues the quarantine pass to an adult member preferably head of the household (except for 60 and above) and authorizes the holder to leave his/her residence to buy essentials or go to work.
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The authors are grateful to Ateneo de Manila University’s Research and Creative Work (RCW) program that funded the research. The authors are thankful for the assistance and participation of the leaders and members of the APOAMF HOA in Manggahan, Pasig, and the leaders and members of HOAs in Site 3, Calauan Laguna namely, Legacy of Light HOA, SSP1 HOA, USSICA HOA, and UPMC HOA in this study and the Joly Homes Foundation and Kem Tanaleon.
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Quetulio-Navarra, M., Niehof, A. (2023). Social Capital and Community Organizing in Community-Based COVID-19 Management in Two Resettlement Sites in the Philippines. In: Hamza, M., Amaratunga, D., Haigh, R., Malalgoda, C., Jayakody, C., Senanayake, A. (eds) Rebuilding Communities After Displacement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21414-1_17
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