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DRRR
Quarter 1 – Module 6
Vulnerable Sectors
DRRR– Grade 11/12
Quarter 1 – Module 6: Vulnerable Sectors

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Explain why certain sectors of society are
more vulnerable to disasters than others

DRR11/12- Ic9
 Lesson
Vulnerable Sectors

BEGIN

Vulnerability is present in the community or society even before a disaster

happens. Some people living in the community are more vulnerable to disasters.
In this module, you will learn about who are the so-called vulnerable sectors of
the community in times of disaster. Are you up for it? Then, be ready to learn and
accomplish the tasks ahead.

YOUR TARGET

Hi! I am Teacher Marj! I am going to guide

you on your journey to this module.
At the end of the module, you should be
able to:

➢ Differentiate the most, less, and not vulnerable sectors in the community
during disasters.
➢ Identify the categories of vulnerabilities.
➢ Explain why certain sectors of society are more vulnerable to disaster
than others.

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 TRY THIS

TASK: Make the Best Choice

Instructions: Read and analyze each statement. Choose the letter of the correct
answer.
1. The extent to which a community, structure, services, or geographic area is
likely to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of hazard is termed
as___________.
A. capacity
B. hazard
C. risk
D. vulnerability
2. Poor people who often live on marginal lands, do not have any savings or
insurance, who suffer from poor health, and have miserable physical and
material resources suffer from__________________ vulnerability.
A. attitudinal
B. motivational
C. physical
D. social
3. Community members whose capacities are low and not sufficient to withstand
and overcome the damaging and adverse effects of disasters belong to the
__________________ sectors.
A. less vulnerable
B. most vulnerable
C. not vulnerable
D. poverty
4. Community members whose capacity are higher than in the vulnerable sector
to overcome the adverse effects of disasters belong to the
__________________ sectors.
A. less vulnerable
B. most vulnerable
C. not vulnerable
D. poverty
5. In what category of vulnerability do fatalism, discouragement, and
despondency fall?
A. attitudinal
B. motivational
C. physical
D. social

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 DO THIS
Task: Arrange the jumbled letters into a word. Write your answer on the space
provided. Note that the words are related to people or situation in the community
which are part of vulnerable sectors during a disaster.
1. S I E N L L S _________________________

2. P N G T E N A R _________________________

3. D L Y R E E L _________________________

4. N E R N C H D I L _________________________

5. T Y I S D B I L A _________________________

EXPLORE
Instructions: Study and analyze the picture and answer the questions that
follow.

Source: Gonzales, Julian and Mohan, Priyanka (2011). Strengthening Resilience in Post Disaster
Situations. Retrieved from https://prd-idrc.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/openebooks/535-
9/index.html

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1. What does the picture portray?
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________

2. Do you think poverty is a type of vulnerability? Why?

______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

KEEP THIS IN MIND

Who are the so-called Most Vulnerable Sectors?

They are the community members whose

capacities are low and not sufficient to withstand and
overcome the damaging and adverse effects of
disasters. Therefore, they are the ones who receive the
Social Amelioration Program (SAP) and relief
distribution of the government during this pandemic
crisis.
• They are composed of farmers, the urban poor,
laborers, indigenous people, persons with disabilities (PWDs), women, and
children.
• Also, they are the so-called abused sector
and at the lowest level of society.

Who are the so-called Less Vulnerable Sectors?

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• They are the community members whose capacities start from their own
ability to acquire material resources; skills and trainings; and position in
society.
• Their capacities are higher than those in the most vulnerable sector to
overcome the adverse effects of disasters.
• They are composed of professionals, small entrepreneurs, and others similar
to those who belong to the higher levels of the society.
• Their role in disaster management activities is to extend assistance and
support to the most vulnerable sectors.

Who are the so-called Not Vulnerable Sectors?

Source: ABS-CBN News,( Nov. 09,2019) Retrieved from: https://news.abs-

cbn.com/news/11/09/19/pacquiao-namahagi-ng-tulong-sa-mga-biktima-ng-lindol-sa-
cotabato

• They are the sectors in society having a high position in the community.
• They do advocacy or charity for the benefit of the most vulnerable and less
vulnerable sectors during and after disasters.

“Where do I and my family belong?

Why?”

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Categories of Vulnerabilities

According to Anderson and Woodrow (1990), there are three areas of

vulnerability, which are the following:

1. Physical/ Material Vulnerability

For example, poor people who

have few physical and material
resources usually suffer more
from disasters than rich people.
Poor people often live in marginal
lands; they don’t have any
savings or insurance; they are in
poor health. Their physical and
material resources are miserable.
These factors make them more vulnerable to disasters, meaning they have
difficulty surviving and recovering from a calamity than people who are
better off economically.

2. Social/ Organizational Vulnerability

People who have been marginalized in

social, economic, or political terms are
vulnerable to suffering from disasters,
whereas groups that are well organized and
have a commitment to their members suffer
less during disasters. Weakness in social
and organizational areas may cause
disasters. For example, deep divisions can lead to violence. Conflict over
resources due to poverty can also lead to violence.

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 You can browse the internet and read the news about
what happen in Kidapawan, Cotabato.
Lara, Francisco Jr. Bloodshed in Kidapawan: Climate change,
conflict, politics of famine. Retrieve from
https://opinion.inquirer.net/94215/bloodshed-in-kidapawan-
climate-change-conflict-politics-of-famine

1. Attitudinal/ Motivational Vulnerability

People who have low

confidence in their
ability to affect change
or who have “ lost
heart” and feel
defeated by events
they cannot control are
harder hit by disasters
than those who have a
sense of their ability to bring the
changes they desire.

Source: Bright Side. Retrieve from https://brightside.me/inspiration-psychology/heres-

the-real-difference-between-a-negative-and-a-positive-attitude-to-life-

Do I suffer for any vulnerability?

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 APPLY WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED

1. Individually, watch the video clip on the experiences of people with disabilities
during the flood at this website: uploaded by VERA Files, DISASTERS AND THE
DISABLED, Published on October 09, 2012 https://youtube/DLBa4gobjVY
2. Based on the video clip, answer the following questions:

What physical challenge did the residents of Tahanan Walang Hagdan (TWH)
face during Typhoon Ondoy?

______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

Why are people with disabilities vulnerable to discrimination during disasters?

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

REFLECT

Congratulations on finishing the supplementary learning

module! You have just had an amazing learning journey and
for sure, you will also do the same in the succeeding modules.

This time, please write your final insights by

completing the following sentence prompts.

What are the conditions that make you vulnerable during a disaster? Does
vulnerability contribute to the adverse impacts of disaster on you and your family? If
yes, why do you think so?
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________

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 ASSESS WHAT YOU HAVE LEARENED

Instruction: Study the situations listed below. Which category of vulnerability does
each situation relate base on the description of Anderson and Woodrow?
1. Juan lives in a far-flung area with a house made of light materials. He has no
means of going downtown except by walking on the dirt road.

2. Because of the COVID, a policeman told Lita that she cannot sell fish by
going around the barangay. She is now thinking of another means of
livelihood as she cannot afford to rent a space in the fish market.

3. John’s parents fight a lot making him not sure whether he will enroll in college.

4. Jen is hesitant to apply in government office because she has no connections

to back her up.

5. Corona, a sixteen-year-old, went to the mall despite the COVID scare. When
asked by a police officer why, she answered, “I might as well die from corona
virus than die of boredom at home. We all die sooner or later anyways
because our health care is poor.”

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 GLOSSARY

The following terms used in this module are

defined as follows:

Advocacy – the act or process of supporting a cause or proposal.

Despondency – a state of low spirits caused by loss of hope or courage.

Disability- used to refer to both physical and mental/psychological impairment that

substantially limits one or more major life activities such as walking, seeing, thinking,
speaking, or hearing.

Disaster- any occurrence that causes damage, ecological disruption, loss of human
life, deterioration of health services on a scale, sufficient to warrant an extraordinary
response from outside the affected community or area.

Fatalism- is a feeling that you cannot control events or prevent unpleasant things
from happening, especially when this feeling stops you from making decisions or
making an effort.

Indigenous – someone who naturally belong or native to an area.

Marginal lands- the land that cannot be used in farming and has less value.

Urban poor- refers to individuals or families in urban areas with incomes below the
poverty line.

Vulnerability- a set prevailing or consequential conditions, which adversely affect

the community’s ability to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, and respond to hazardous
events.

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 ANSWER KEY
ry this!

1. D
2. C
3. B
4.
5. C
6. A

Do This

1. ILLNESS
2. PREGNANT
3. ELDERLY
4. CHILDREN
5. DISABILITY

Explore: Rubrics

Needs
Criteria Exemplary Very Good Good improvement
20 15 10 5
Observations Complete and Detailed Detailed Description are
detailed description of description of not detailed or
description of most of the some of the complete
the subject subject matter subject matter
matter as as seen in the as seen in the
seen in the picture. picture.
picture.
Explanation Clearly Clearly Some of the Explanation
explains and explains idea was does not
elaborate his/her explained. clearly given.
his/her answer about
answer about the topic.
the topic.

Assess what you have learned

1. Physical / Material vulnerability

2. Physical / Material vulnerability
3. Social/ Organizational vulnerability
4. Social/ Organizational vulnerability
5. Attitudinal/ Motivational vulnerability

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Lanada, Maria Isabel B., Melegrito, Ma. Lourdes F.,and Mendoza, Diana J.( 2016).
“Building resilient and risk reduction” Disaster Readiness and Risk
Reduction. Phoenix Publishing House, Inc.

Lara, Francisco JR. Bloodshed in Kidapawan: Climate change, conflict, politics of

famine .Retrieve from: https://opinion.inquirer.net/94215/bloodshed-in-
kidapawan- climate-change-conflict-politics-of-famine

Licuanan, Patricia B. (2016). Teaching Guide for Senior High School. “Disaster
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PHOTOS

ABS-CBN News, (Nov. 09,2019). Relief distribution. Retrieved from:

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/09/19/pacquiao-namahagi-ng-tulong-sa-
mga- biktima-ng-lindol-sa-cotabato

Bright Side. Retrieve from https://brightside.me/inspiration-psychology/heres-

the-real- difference-between-a-negative-and-a-positive-attitude-to-life-

Clipart Library. Student thinking. Retrieve from

https://png.pngtree.com/element_our/20190531/ourlarge/pngtree-cartoon-pupil-
thinking-about-problem-png-transparent-bottom-image_1305437.jpg

Female teacher clipart. Retrieve from

https://emojipedia-us.s3.dualstack.us-west-
1.amazonaws.com/thumbs/160/apple/81/female-teacher-type-1-2_1f469-1f3fb-
200d-1f3eb.png

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Macrovector / Freepik. Professional clipart. Retrieved from:
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Marginal area. Retrieve from

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Ae8HBmlVZbIihWC83v5LyB3x5t5We8Y9CA

Poor family clipart. Retrieve from

https://files.brightside.me/files/news/part_15/154755/1775605-11-650-
a542d8629a-1484649916.jpg

Protest clipart. https://clipartart.com/images/uprisings-clipart-4.jpg

PWD clipart. Retrieve from
https://media.philstar.com/images/articles/metro7-senior-citizens- pwds_2018-
07-12_21-05-00.jpg

The Urban Poor. Retrieve from

http://pcup.gov.ph/index.php/facts-and-figures/the-pcup-client-the-urban-poor

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