Philippines

The sustainable development of cities is threatened by a worldwide water crisis. Improved social learning is urgently needed to transform urban water governance and make it more integrated and adaptive. However, empirical studies remain few and fragmented

This report presents the rationale for and design of a city government disaster insurance pool in the Philippines.

Insurance pools help governments enhance their financial preparedness for disasters, focusing on the provision of rapid post-disaster

This research aims to address the gap in knowledge on both local disaster resilience and preparedness by providing a comprehensive overview of household measures of resilience and levels of disaster preparedness. This is the first nationwide household

This report provides a framework for assessing disaster risk management policies in cities. It also presents the results of assessments and locally tailored policy recommendations in five cities of different institutional, geographic, socio-economic and

Satellite remote sensing is one of the primary support tools for disaster management. The Sentinel Asia (SA) initiative was established in 2006 as a collaboration between regional space agencies and disaster management agencies, applying space technology

This document is an abridged version of the National Resilience Council (NRC) Scorecard that provides an introduction to NRC and its approach for achieving disaster resilience. The full version of the Scorecard will be available from February 2019. It is

This research examined emergency food reserve policies in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Emergency food reserves emerged as a practice where the shared objectives of development, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation have been

This is the second version of the National Disaster Response Plan (NDRP) for Earthquake and Tsunami. Aiming to ensure the timely, effective and coordinated response by the national government and its resources, the NDRP is the national government’s