You are cordially invited a special seminar by Caroline Compton.
The details are as follows.

Date and Time: May 25th (Wed.), 2016, 16:00 – 18:00
Place: Tonan Tei on the second floor of Inamori Memorial Building,
CSEAS, Kyoto University

Speaker: Caroline Compton, doctoral candidate at the Australian National University, College of Law

Title: Recovering from Yolanda amid constellations of rules and incentives

Abstract:
Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), the most powerful typhoon to have ever made landfall, struck the Visayas region of the Philippines in November 2013. In the wake of the disaster, local and national decision makers faced challenging decisions about how best to recover from the impact of the typhoon. Simultaneously, hundreds of international humanitarian actors streamed into the region. Each brought with them plans for their own recovery projects.

This presentation discusses the Yolanda recovery, with a focus on understanding how different rule systems have influenced outcomes. It will outline a framework for exploring causality in situations where multiple normative forces are in play. The presentation will then introduce preliminary findings from two recovery projects in Northern Cebu – an in situ housing relocation program, and a project that aims to relocate, as well as provide house and land ownership to beneficiaries. It considers both from vantage point of the donor relationship with its incumbent constraints. It juxtaposes this with views from ‘the community(ies)’ with their various competing interests, and expectations of relationships and conduct. The way various rule structures create incentives, which direct the conduct of the various players in the project environment, will be given particular attention.

Bionote:
Caroline Compton is a doctoral candidate at the Australian National University College of Law. Her research explores how complex institutional environments respond to exogenous shock. She received an Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship to fund fieldwork in the Philippines, where she is examining how property and housing interventions in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan challenge, and are constrained by, institutional orthodoxies. She is currently a Visiting Research Associate at the Institute of Philippine Culture at Ateneo de Manila University. Prior to commencing her studies at ANU, Caroline spent a number of years working on development projects in Vietnam. Caroline holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Education from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Juris Doctor (Hons) from the Australian National University.

Moderator: Hau Caroline, CSEAS, Kyoto University