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The Manila Bulletin stresses the need for businesses and critical infrastructures to engage in disaster risk reduction activities and highlights a forum to be held in April, PROTECT 2010 'Doing Business Amidst New Threats.'...
The Manila Bulletin reports that authors of the Disaster Risk Reduction measure in the House of Representatives have urged President Arroyo to sign the bill into law in order to fully prepare the country for natural hazard related events such as the El Niño weather phenomenon...
A joint initiative of the National Disaster Coordinating Council, the Office of Civil Defence and the Zamboanga city government, the 'Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Climate Change Adaptation' which will start this week, will include several strategies on how communities can adapt to climate change...
Concerned government agencies have started preparing alternative methods for 2010 disaster risk reduction, in an effort to avert the loss of life and destruction of properties during incidence of calamities...
The Bulletin reports that the National Economic and Development Authority and three campuses of the University of the Philippines signed an agreement to put together strategies on climate change adaptation...
Stakeholders from various parts in the Caraga Region launched the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Capacity Assessment (CA) activity over the weekend, initiated by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)...
The European Union assured, this week, continuing cooperation with the Philippines in the area of disaster risk reduction (DRR) as the country seeks to redeem itself from the destruction caused by the two recent typhoons...
The Bulletin reports that the Australian government has launched new DRR initiatives in the Philippines including mainstreaming, climate change adaptation in local and land use plans and processes, and technical assistance to the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority...
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.