Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) 2013

'If the community is prepared, it can cope with the impact of a disaster,' says Education Officer Edward Santos from ACT Alliance member National Council of Churches in the Philippines. The participants identify and assess the risks, vulnerabilities and capacities of their own village. Together they brainstorm the preferred activities what the village can do to reduce risks, what NCCP can do to assist, and what remains the responsibility of the local government...

The Philippines, which suffered $13 billion of damage when Super Typhoon Haiyan tore through the country in 2013, is looking at defraying the costs of future calamities with catastrophe bonds, reports the Chicago Tribune. 'Among the greatest threats to the Philippine growth story is our heightened exposure to disaster risk,' said National Treasurer Roberto Tan...

This publication critically examines urban policies and projects from the perspective of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, urban resiliency, inclusive cities, and the impacts of the informal economy.

In the negotiation towards the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the successor of 10-year-old Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), disaster-prone Philippines helped provide a richer discussion...

Since Typhoon Yolanda, WFP has been working in close coordination with a number of actors in order to strengthen emergency response capabilities and improve preparedness for upcoming typhoons. As lead agency of the Logistics Cluster, WFP engages private sector partners such as those who form the Logistics Emergency Team (LET)...

'The learnings of these last ten years must feed into the post-2015 development agenda starting with the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in March in Sendai, Japan, which will adopt an updated version of the Hyogo Framework for Action,' write Nicolas Hulot and Loren Legarda in an op-ed on Huffington Post ahead of French President Francois Hollande's visit to the Philippines...

This document addresses disaster risk reduction in the context of the Typhoon Haiyan, presents lessons from the humanitarian response to the disaster and highlights the important coordination role of the Philippines government in it.

This case study documents ongoing recovery since the occurrence of Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013, which caused unprecedented damage to nine regions, including 591 municipalities and 56 cities spread across 44 provinces.

This report summarizes the “just-in-time” advice provided by the World Bank to the government of the Philippines (GoP) immediately after Typhoon Haiyan.

This 2014 issue asserts that 2013 was a below-average year in terms of natural hazard losses for the insurance industry. It features typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, which caused the year’s biggest catastrophe, with a storm surge that claimed thousands