Philippines

This Guidebook describes the principles, tools and practices of three (3) urban disaster risk and resilience indicator systems based on EMI’s collective experience in implementing them in various urban settings in the last decade with local authorities

This edition of Asian Disaster Management News focuses on disaster recovery: the governance, economics, and social impacts. It includes features on i) recovery planning, ii) the needs of survivors in post-disaster needs assessments, iii) defining the post-disaster financial requirements for recovery, iv) measuring the social impacts of a disaster and in-depth analysis of the disaster’s impact on food security, poverty, health, and livelihoods, v) building institutional capacity for assessment and recovery, vi) resilient recovery, vii) risk insurance.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2014), Volume 10, Part A, December 2014, pp. 15–27, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2014.07.007:

This paper presents a process for integrating local and indigenous knowledge related to hydro-meteorological hazards

This report outlines the practical lessons learned by Plan International and Save the Children about child-centred community-based adaptation (CC-CBA) to climate change. It provides a snapshot of the organizations' work across the Philippines and Vietnam

Drawing on the rights-based approach laid out in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (IASC Framework) and reflected in many of the Philippines’ own domestic standards, this report analyses efforts to resolve the displacement crisis generated by Typhoon Haiyan.

This report lays out key recommendations on how to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls in disasters, which include making protection measures a part of disaster preparedness, putting greater effort into making protection a ‘mainstream’

This report aims to help people understand how new communication and information sharing technologies can enhance risk reduction and preparedness measures. The report offers recommendations for the implementation for new communication and information

This report presents three different case studies on disaster risk identification. Each of the case studies presents root causes of risk and risk drivers that lead to the construction of risk. Within these case studies from Taiwan, the Philippines and the