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A lack of preparedness in the epicenter of the Tulunan earthquake conveys the municipality’s need for additional materials for temporary shelters and food packs.
'When you have a strong hazard, you are vulnerable, then you have a recipe for disaster. What this means is that vulnerability is in our hands', said Dr. Gemma Teresa Narisma, head of the Regional Climate Systems Program of the Manila Observatory...
Empower the communities is a simple solution in the process to strengthen early warning in Philippines, 'people in the community can interpret and assess for themselves and then key agencies should be there to support them'...
A National Agricultural Forestry Research Institute project helps farmers in two vulnerable districts which are prone to flood and drought, and have a high percentage of poor farming households. The climate change adaptation strategies taught to locals include crop diversification and water management...
'There is also a need to put in place a plan aligned on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation,' said Toshihiro Tanaka, country director of UNDP. 'Disaster and climate risk assessments of their river basins needs to be undertaken to secure an inclusive, sustainable and resilient development'...
A two-day Summit on Disaster Risk Reduction and Geo-hazard Awareness, held to discuss and learn lessons from the Sendong tragedy in December, concluded with the approval of an eight-point Declaration...
'Climate change has exposed the city to more risks to disasters. We have to prepare for it' said City Administrator Herculano Ronolo, further to recent landslides in the city’s Upper Pulangi district, reports Walter I. Balane for MindaNews....
'Make sure that you include risk reduction actions and adaptation measures to climate change' Vice-President Jejomar Binay told local government participants of a recent housing summit entitled 'Strengthening Local Government Units in Housing Delivery and Local Development Planning'...
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