On November 8, 2013, Typhoon Yolanda made landfall in the Central Philippines. This disaster affected 7,110,958 out of 96.71 million persons in the Philippines, or approximately 7 percent of the population.
... See More + More than one million homes (1,012,790) were destroyed (518,878) or suffered major damage (493,912). The highest level of damage was in Region VIII, where Tacloban is located. 95 percent of the families located in Tacloban were displaced. The proposal submitted under the Innovation Grant program for ‘housing displaced people: a simple, innovative solution,’ was submitted eight days before the Typhoon struck. The original intent was to assist the Philippines with a rental housing assistance tool modeled on a successful program in Haiti that could be used in the event the country was hit with another major disaster. It was also intended to guide Jordan with its rental-housing program for cross border refugees. With the urgent need created by Typhoon Yolanda and a challenging security situation in Jordan, the Philippines became the sole focus of the grant.
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The purpose of this operational manual is to describe Rental Support Cash Grant (RSCG) programs and to explain how these programs can provide shelter assistance for displaced populations after emergencies.
... See More + The Operational Manual provides guidance on the design and implementation of RSCG programs and also advises on the specific circumstances in which RSCG programs can be an appropriate tool. The manual is intended to inform the replication of this methodology in other contexts, but is not intended to be rigidly prescriptive. The Manual was developed from a single context, Haiti, after the 2010 earthquake, and this limitation is openly acknowledged. It is hoped that the methodology described here will further evolve and improve through implementation elsewhere and that improvements will be recorded in subsequent iterations of the Manual. This manual provides guidelines for future RSCG programs, centralizes lessons from research and evaluations and adds practical examples drawn from RSCG interventions. The manual is not intended to suggest that Rental Support Cash Grant programs can provide a one-size-fits-all solution for disaster-affected communities. Rather, RSCG programs should correctly be understood as only one tool among many for providing shelter after an emergency.
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The standard method of estimating rents of owner occupiers is to stratify the housing stock by size, facilities and location, and impute rents for owner occupiers in line with rents actually paid for similar dwellings.
... See More + When the standard procedure cannot be used, expenditure on dwellings is estimated by the user cost approach. The user cost approach consists of estimating each of the costs that the owners of the dwelling will need to take into account in fixing a market rent if one decides to rent dwellings to other people rather than to live in. These costs are: intermediate consumption, other taxes on production, consumption of fixed capital, and net operating surplus. In this context, the report presents user cost estimates of imputed rents for owner-occupiers; and annex to user cost approach: guidelines.
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