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Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng 2009 the Philippines Post-Disaster Needs Assessment Main Report
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This Post-Disaster Needs Assessment analysis covers damages, losses, and economic and social impacts from Ondoy and Pepeng, providing a basis for determining recovery and reconstruction needs.
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This report highlights the most significant climate change impacts that will affect some of Asia’s largest metropolitan areas including Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Bangkok (Thailand), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Shanghai (China), Hong Kong (China), Dhaka

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This note reports on examples of recent experience in eight countries where national and local governments and civil society participants have worked to strengthen their disaster risk reduction and adaptation actions. These cases, along with similar

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In this booklet DRRNetPhils is advocating for a policy shift from disaster response and preparedness to disaster risk reduction and management through the development and establishment of a national framework that will foster an enabling national policy

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Climate change series, part 2 - disaster risk reduction:

This report highlights climate change solutions that are already working in the Philippines, Vietnam and Bangladesh, but warns that much more needs to be done to protect vulnerable communities

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These guidelines aim at improving the Philippines' capacity to prevent and mitigate disasters. It is a tool for enhancing regional and provincial planning analyses by recognizing risks posed by natural hazards and the vulnerability of the population

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The time between the triggering event and the tsunami’s landfall is a key variable as it influences the effectiveness of tsunami early warning systems and the possibility of evacuation. Chile, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Peru, the Solomon Islands, Portugal

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This handbook describes the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Red Cross Red Crescent world as “multi-sectoral” and part of a broad and long-standing drive for safer and more resilient communities. It addresses DRR as the core of most National Societies

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The International Recovery Platform strengthens knowledge and information on building back better in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.

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