Self-recovery in the Philippines

Understanding self-recovery

In 2017, Eefje Hendriks did field research in the Philippines in collaboration with Cordaid. This research was to get a deeper understanding about the self-recovery processes and the role of construction knowledge after the typhoon Haiyan in the area of Coron. This research is part of a doctoral research..

How do people rebuild their house without governmental or humanitarian technical assistance?

This year 3 students, Jason Ramos Silva, Dennis van Nijnatten, Erika Palmieri, will contribute to this research. They will design a knowledge interventions based on the data of last year. The will also develop a methodology to test the intervention and measure its effectivity in practice. You can follow their activities on this blog!