This website supports the rehabilitation of disaster-hit communities by connecting donors to where their social investments should really go.

Typhoon Frank’s unwanted visit to Iloilo wrought havoc to the region that is full of economic promises, claiming lives and limbs and destroying homes and highways. Its toll is frightening. At least 612,000 persons were rendered homeless as of 24 June, and water-borne diseases spread rapidly. In three days, rescuers counted 123 deaths and hundreds more could not be located and were believed dead. Roads and bridges were impassable. For days, drinking water is unavailable but when it is, it may be unsafe. A food shortage made worse by the rising cost of basic commodities became a cruel phenomenon.

The calamity brought back to zero everything that Iloilo and its people built in the last decade. But while it has fallen, it is predestined to rise again and rebuild what has been lost. While relief assistance poured down immediately after floodwaters have subsided, rehabilitation becomes a great challenge.

But rebuilding Iloilo needs to be well-coordinated so that interventions can be optimized to ensure that they reach every affected community. Donor agencies need to identify appropriate interventions to maximize the impact of their social investments. And this website will serve as the link between calamity victims and those who have the capacity to help.

Bangon Iloilo is a comprehensive program designed to help the flood victims recover in terms of housing, access to basic services such as water, health and education, and livelihood and income. The program also desires to optimize rehabilitation efforts to help victims improve their livelihood and realize incomes closer to if not above the poverty threshold level on a sustained basis.

Its goal is the economic and environmental rehabilitation of the at least 241 affected barangays in Iloilo City and Metro Iloilo local governments of Leganes, Oton, Pavia, San Miguel and Santa Barbara through livelihood activities that support the restoration of the environment.

Bangon Iloilo is a social investment promotion campaign to support the rehabilitation efforts of the Metro Iloilo local governments to be managed by the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Economic Development Council (MIGEDC) and the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) under its Urban Partnership Program funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).