Thesis Master of Arts in Public Administration University of Rizal System Pililla

This study sought to determine the living conditions of relocates in Southville 10, Tanay, and Rizal in the aspects of their housing condition, provision for alternative occupation, accessibility to job locations and basic social services, and security and the perceived extent of implementation of the resettlement programs with respect to its governing policies and operations including concerns encountered by the respondents. To determine the profile and living conditions of the respondents' frequency and percentage distribution was used while to discern the perceived extent of implementation of the resettlement programs, mean and standard deviation were employed. Furthermore, in order to recognize the hypothesis that there is no significant difference between the profile and the perceived extent of implementation, F-Test or one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was employed. The concerns of the respondents were summarized and ranked according to frequency to identify what worries the relocates the most. Descriptive method of research was utilized by the researcher in order to collect, analyze and tabulate data about the prevailing condition, practices, processes and relationships in the study and then making adequate interpretation about the data. Respondents were selected adopting simple random sampling technique determined through Slovin's formula and they were asked to answer a researcher-made questionnaire checklist which was validated by the experts. The result of the study indicated that majority of the respondents were women within the age bracket of 31-40 years old. Many of them were college undergraduate level and are unemployed, and for this reason they live in a monthly family income of Php 8,000 and below. Many respondents have 3-5 members in the family which is a medium family size. Most of them are direct awardees of units in Southville 10. The respondents were given the security of tenure by the documents of ownership given to them but was faced with the lack of fire safety measures in the housing unit: they were provided with livelihood machineries, equipment and facilities but no land space in the village to grow crops: public transportation is convenient and easy but jobs in the area do not match their skills and experiences; power supply, education and water supply services were given but there is deficiency on the delivery of health services; watch crews are available but there is no perimeter fence in the area for security. The extent of implementation of the resettlement program with respect to the governing policies and operations considering the aspects of housing, accessibility to job locations and basic social services and security were perceived by the respondents as implemented with 26%-50% conformity, however, in the aspect of provisions for alternative occupation, they perceived it as least implemented with conformity of 1%-25% only. Sex, age and family size do not affect the respondents' perception on the extent of implementation of the resettlement program with respect to the policies and operations considering all the different aspects. However, educational attainment and length of stay affects the respondents' perception in all the aspects except for security. On the other hand, occupation affects their perception on the extent of implementation of the resettlement program in the aspects of housing, accessibility to job locations and basic social services; it does not have any effect on the aspects of provisions for alternative occupation and security. Monthly income does not affect the respondents' perception on the extent of implementation of the resettlement program in the aspects of housing, provision for alternative occupation, accessibility to job locations and security but has an effect in the aspect of accessibility to basic social services. Place of birth of the respondents has an impact to their perception in the aspects of housing and accessibility to job locations. However, it does not have an impact in the aspects of provisions to alternative occupation, accessibility to basic social services and security. Lastly, status of ownership does not influence the respondents' perception in all the aspects except for provisions to alternative occupation. From the summary of the listed concerns, some of the concerns are lack of jobs available; drinking water was expensive as they have to buy it because the water from the water supply system cannot be used for drinking; and there is lack in the security personnel. Based on findings, it can be concluded that women in Southville 10, Tanay, Rizal are the most vulnerable to unemployment and cannot readily find a job fit for them in the resettlement area. The respondents cannot do farming as an alternative occupation aside from the reason that there is no available space to grow crops in the area, they do not have the experience to do it as they came from an urban setting. Most of them will have the option of labor employment. There is no problem in the implementation of resettlement programs, however, its impact level towards development of the relocates in Southville 10 was perceived by relocates to have low efficiency. The socio-economic factors like educational attainment, occupation, income and status of ownership with socio-cultural factors of length of stay or residency and status of ownership somehow affects how the relocates perceive the implementation of resettlement programs and how they adapt themselves to their lives in the resettlement area.\ Furthermore, all relocates had their own concerns in all the different aspects depending on what they have encountered or experienced.