DIVISION OF PASIG CITY

BUTING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

A Santos St. Barangay Buting, Pasig City

NATURAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

Academic Year 2019-2020

Looking through One’s Life: the Lived Experience of a Informal Settlers

Research Paper Presented to the Faculty of Natural Science Department and the Academic
council of Buting Senior High School In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Practical
Research 1 (Qualitative Research)

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Daluraya, Jasper A.

Data, Royce H.

Escarmosa, Heidi A.

Gorospe, Melanie O.

11 STEM- A

October 2019
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 CHAPTER I

The background and Its Setting

INTRODUCTION

Informal settlers are sustainable when they can recover from stress and shocks. These

informal settlers can be assets. A rapid urbanization and inadequate capability to cope with the

housing needs of people in urban area have contributed to the development of informal settlers

living in these settlements often poses significant health risks. Sanitation, food storage facilities

and drinking water quality often poor with the results of inhabitants exposed in a wide range of

pathogens and houses may act as breading grounds of insects vectors. And in access to health

and other services may be limited, overcrowding can contribute to stress, violence and in

increased problems of drugs and other social problems.

Living in this squatter area may also affect your behavior in the surrounding area and

interactions to others. Some of these informal settlers whom may not able to educate their selves

or their children in having not enough money. And from this, children pursued to do things that

are not good for them. These children may involve in such a groups of people like gangs and

fraternities that's not good for them. They already influenced by the some of informal settler that

live in there. This children love their direction and attach by doing bad things instead of going to

school. Their walking down the streets in find some foods that can be eaten just to fulfilled their

stomach. And in able to lived. This study will prove the experiences in living of informal settlers.

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Research Locale

This research will be conducted at Pinagbuhatan in the city of Pasig, we chose this place as the

researcher assign in their field study. This place was selected for knowing the experiences of

informal settlers who experiencing serious problem without the presence of government.

Statement of the Purpose

This research aims to know the lived experience of a Informal settler, Specifically it will find

information for these questions:

 To know what struggles she/he experience living in urban area.

 To know how she/he manage to survive living in a urban area.

 How she/he coped up with her/his situations.

Scope and limitation

Our research is about the lived experienced of a informal settler, on what everyday life of our

participants, how she/he interacts with other people outside the urban area and communicate with

them. The struggles she/he manage every single day of his/her lives. Our Participant wish to not

to disclose her/his name and identity to our research though she/he’s living in Pinagbuhatan,

Pasig City and we will ask her to gather data’s, it is more convenient for our participant

specifically for him/her to be more comfortable. The estimated time of this study is before to the

end the 1st semester of 2019.

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Significance of the Study

 Government

This aim to know how the government should act in this matter of issue in the

community. The government should and could pour an indeterminate amount of funds into

the housing sector, not with standing competing public policy goals requiring funding

support. The old approach failed to direct private sector fi nancing to social housing because

of inappropriate incentives for private sector participation.

 Researcher

This aim to have the knowledge all the researchers how the informal settlers lives in their

small area, and to know how their daily lives and how they survived, what could be the

possible information the researchers can give to the participant to make her/his life becomes

better.

 Community

This aim to have the community to know how to communicate and respect the persons

who lived in the urban area, they should have known how to treat properly the persons they

were encounter to.

 School

This aims to have the students to learn how to manage to communicate properly and also

to have a respect to all the students who are living in the small area.

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Statement of the Problem

The lived-experienced of informaSl settlers in Pinagbuhatan,Pasig City

Settlers Looking through One’s Life: the Lived Experience of a Informal

General question: What are the struggles in their daily life?

Specific question;

1. What are the risks that they experience living in their place?

2. What are the most often job do they have?

Definition of Terms

Informal Settler - An informal settler is someone who is part of a group that has established

housing on land to which the group has no legal claim. Often informal settlers are known as

squatters. When squatters are a part of a group, the group is sometimes called an informal

settlement.

Urban Area - An urban area or urban agglomeration, is a human settlement with high

population density and infrastructure of built environment.

Urbanization - refers to the population shift from rural areas to urban areas, the gradual increase in the

proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.

Slump – To describe a place, this is unhealthy, dank, dark, crumpled and overcrowded

accommodation.

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 CHAPTER II

Review of Related Literature

This studies aims to across relevant research areas of disaster risk reduction and climate

change adaptation, urban poverty and informality, and public health policy and practice, as well

as collaborative field work to define practical and straightforward metrics that can be used at

local levels, and integrated into existing urban resilience frameworks. In the Philippines, cities

are powerful magnets for rural populations lacking local opportunities and who seek to

achieve prosperity for their immediate and future generations. These centers of

“possibilities” however fail to provide basic needs and services for increasing numbers of

internal immigrants.

The Philippines, like many island countries, suffers from land deficit; housing is not

only difficult but economically unfeasible for the urban poor. Thus, the urban poor are

unconsciously driven to areas otherwise unsuitable for housing. These danger zones are

prone to flooding, seismic activity and landslides. Living in these areas exposes informal

settlers to a vicious repeat cycle of destruction and loss of life. What is the source of a

community’s resistance to relocate in the face of continuing risk? Some studies suggest that

the place that we call home is not just a point in a geographical setting. Communities

develop shared values and shared identity with place (Hewitt, K 1997).

The Filipino government is currently on a crusade to address this problem by

planning to relocate the individuals at high risk; they have certainly found opposition from

the settlers. But, what are the specific factors that impede successful relocation? In this

study we attempt to answer this question by looking at the cultural, social, economic,

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political factors and interactive dynamics that influence the way people decide where to

live. The findings presented in this paper correspond to field work in the Rizal Province and

its Municipality of San Mateo, more specifically concerning those living in Barangay

Banaba. Hopefully the collection and analysis of such data could contribute towards a better

understanding of the individual at risk, formulation of more effective disaster reduction

strategies, and greater discussion of the situation and needs of these communities.

Millions of individuals live in slums all over the world, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa,

Asia and Latin America. These individuals often live under the threat of eviction, without

permanent accommodation, adequate living room, or clean water access. Decades of legal and

social inequity in South Africa have resulted in a big population residing in informal slums in

and around urban regions. Apartheid legislation compelled non-whites into underdeveloped

townships from urban centers, whose serious absence of accommodation compelled many to

construct their own improvised shacks. Dependence on urban regions for employment has also

led to the development of slums, as the non-whites who had to leave the town flocked back to

overcrowded fields.

These slums contain a spread of problems – shack organization, utility services, and

social services. The primary kind of problems is associated with the placement of shacks inside a

settlement. Oftentimes, once move through a settlement, shacks are designed at inconsistent

intervals, some jammed, some spaced apart. Most roads are consequently irregular and

sometimes don't have area for an automobile. This makes emergency vehicle transportation

through the settlements tough or not possible, preventing emergency services from reaching the

settlements. The shacks themselves are made up of a spread of low price, or discarded material –

typically wood, zinc, or plastic.

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The heavy use of timber and crowding of settlements creates an intense furnace risk for most

settlements. In terms of services, most settlements lack or have confined access to water,

electricity, and sanitation. Beyond the bodily settlement are the social issues. Most settlements

lack prison representation, schooling, and community spaces like gardens or parks.

Extreme issues exist both done characterizing 'informal settlements' also to acquiring.

Dependable information on the amount from claiming people who live inside them.

The meaning from claiming casual settlements may be context-specific. Different definitions.

Need Along these lines been proposed, Anyhow that recommended by the umpteenth Habitat

Program. May be most likely the majority broadly relevant. This characterizes casual settlements

as: I) private regions the place an aggregation for lodging units need been constructed on.

Territory on which the occupants have no legitimate claim, or which they possess. Illegally; ii)

unplanned settlements Also zones the place lodging is not Previously, Agreeability with current

arranging Furthermore fabricating regulations (unauthorized. Housing).

A large number different terms Furthermore definitions have likewise been concocted

to casual mankinds. Settlements, Case in point: unplanned settlements, squatter settlements,

Minor settlements, unpredictable dwellings, non-permanent structures, insufficient housing,

slums, lodging in agreeability and so forth. Unpredictable. Dwellings need aid ordinarily

characterized by the number from claiming lodging units involved toward. Households, yet

viewed as improper should mankind's habitation. Lodging Previously, Consistence is utilized

Likewise a mankind's Settlements pointer Eventually Tom's perusing the umpteenth Habitat.

Programmed Also may be characterized Likewise those rate of those downright lodging stock

clinched alongside. Urban ranges which may be over consistence for current regulations

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(authorized. Housing). Lodging might additionally a chance to be sorted by its sort or perm alloy

(e. G.

Permanent, semi-permanent, non-permanent), in spite of the fact that definitions about

these. Classes shift generally starting with particular nation with nat.

Issues happen done measuring the degree alternately characterizing the limits from claiming

such. Settlements. Toward definition, authoritatively perceived limits to these. Settlements

infrequently exist, and the settlements themselves often blend very nearly. Impalpably under

formal zones for housing, mechanical alternately rustic regions. Utilization of. Remotely sensed

information (e. G. Flying photography or secondary determination satellite. Information) might a

chance to be advantageous in this connection.

Comparable challenges happen clinched alongside acquiring information on the

numbers for people who live. Inside these settlements. They are often not secured by formal

censuses; What's more a significant number of the people existing in the settlements might not a

chance to be enlisted alternately. Authoritatively perceived. Mossy cup oak number information

need aid in this manner estimates, Furthermore as. Such would subject should significant

uncertainties.

Informal towns such as slums, hamlets, squatters, illegal homes, bosti (India), favela

(Brazil), gekekondu (Turkey) are a broad-based occurrence of worldwide distribution (Srinivas

2005 ; Davy and Pellissery 2013). The South is also widespread in the world.

Urbanisation is one of the most significant cultural and economic phenomena in the globe (Deng,

Wang et al. 2009). Population growth and rural-urban migration are the driver of urbanisation.

Indeed, these internal migrations are always accompanied by “push factors” of rural areas

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(unemployment, low standards of housing and infrastructure, lack of educational facilities,

conflict, surplus labor) and “pull factors” of urban areas (economic opportunities, attractive jobs,

better education, modern lifestyle) (Kotter and Friesecke 2009).

And these metropolitan refugees frequently experience major problems in the

availability of soil to meet shelter requirements in emerging nations, as prices in property and

homes are often too costly and long-term procedures.

This leads to the illegal occupation of undeveloped land ; frequently public land with such a

reduced risk of displacement than personal land (Aiken 1981).

Turner (1969) suggested that "casual colonies are the result and car of operations vital to the

modernization process".

The difficulties of casual resolution are multidimensional, involving both legal, socio-

economic and physical elements. Informal settlements lack legal legitimacy is a main

characteristic. This refers generally to the lack of succession safety in the occupied territory. The

socio-economic characteristics such as literacy, schooling and hygiene, the jobs of informal

settlers, is mostly poor.

These settlers are typically precarious physical features. The lack of government services such as

water supply, electricity, roads, drainage, and the lack of available space has reproduced the slum

areas the same (Srinivas, 2005 ; Fernandes, 2011).

The creative aspect of this initiative is to put into public discussion measures that are needed to

demonstrate the truths of risk to individuals with low incomes in such a manner that

policymakers can adopt practical and simple intervention.

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 The Filipino government is currently on a crusade to address this problem by

planning to relocate the individuals at high risk; they have certainly found opposition from

the settlers. But, what are the specific factors that impede successful relocation? In this

study we attempt to answer this question by looking at the cultural, social, economic,

political factors and interactive dynamics that influence the way people decide where to

live. The findings presented in this paper correspond to field work in the Rizal Province and

its Municipality of San Mateo, more specifically concerning those living in Barangay

Banaba. Hopefully the collection and analysis of such data could contribute towards a better

understanding of the individual at risk, formulation of more effective disaster reduction

strategies, and greater discussion of the situation and needs of these communities.

Reference:

Mohammed Haji ALI et.Al (2006)

Retrieved from

http://www.fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2006/papers/ts35/ts35_01_ali_sulai

man_0320

References:

- Dilling, Janet, Brower, Ralph, Cuadra, Judith, and Samples, Malaika. “The Dilemma of

Informal Settlers in the Philippines” 2013 Conference on Crisis and Emergency

Management, Cheongiu, Korea.

- Dilling, Janet, Brower, Ralph, Cuadra, Judith, and Samples, Malaika. “Informal Settlers,

Government Officials, and Disaster Vulnerability: Experience form the Philippines”

Published: IREM Journal, Fall, 2013.

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 CHAPTER III

Methodology

Research Design

Narrative research is a term that subsumes a group of approaches that in turn rely on the

written or spoken words or visual representation of individuals. These approaches typically focus

on the lives of individuals as told through their own stories. The emphasis in such approaches is

on the story, typically both what and how is narrated.

Narrative research can be considered both a research method in itself but also the phenomenon

under study.

We will be using the Narrative research because we would do a study about one’s personal life

and that could include her/his experiences in the journey living in the small place she/he belongs

to.

Sampling Method

The researcher choose to have the non probability that includes Quota Sampling that refers to

researcher tends to choose sample members possessing or indicating the characteristics of the

target population

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