Philippines

Financing emergency preparedness - from fighting crisis to managing risk:

This study contributes to the current momentum surrounding the preparedness agenda by investigating the financial practicalities of emergency preparedness at a country level and

This paper addresses the gain the Philippine scientific community can get from the positive, constructive use of precedents, models, patterns and trends. It highlights the Global Scale Wave Model (GSWM), put up by the National Center for Atmospheric

This paper challenges the world to remember the Philippines long after the TV cameras have gone. It provides a snapshot of the humanitarian response’s initial successes and struggles.

This action plan gives an overview of the situation at the national, international and bilateral levels, few days after the category 5 Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) made a direct hit on the Philippines, devastating areas in 36 provinces.

This report gives a financial account of the situation in the Philippines following the typhoon Haiyan (called Yolanda in the Philippines), which caused great devastation in Leyte province and the surrounding area. It argues that the economic impact has

This viewpoint on Typhoon Haiyan aims to capture some of the priorities for aid decision makers as they struggle with the devastation in the Philippines, such as: to rebuild livelihoods and to pay attention to special vulnerable groups.

This report presents local climate scenarios for 8 Philippine cities based on city-specific weather information over a 20-year period, from 1990 to 2010, and includes scenarios based on climate and environmental exposure, socio-economic sensitivity, and

This working paper addresses the funding that has been mobilized by developed countries to meet commitments to provide scaled-up finance to developing countries under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It analyzes adaptation finance