ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses how social capital, trust and networks help us to understand bottom-up and top-down resilience-building strategies. It argues that social capital plays a crucial role in response and recovery activities through the differential access it provides to aid and assistance. The chapter discusses definitions of social capital, trust and networks and explains how they relate to each other. It examines how these issues work in the context of Philippines society. The chapter focuses on the post-Typhoon Yolanda context and examines how social capital, trust and networks evolved in the post-disaster situation. It investigates the effect of post-disaster interventions, such as the work of aid agencies, on trust, norms and networks and communities’ ability to build back better. Reference to patron-client relations can help us comprehend the motivations of givers. Such relations represent a reciprocal relationship in which the patron will reward the client to gain their loyalty or obedience.
