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After earthquakes in the Mindanao area, Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda highlighted the importance of structural integrity in critical infrastructure to prevent disasters.
The Philippines Department of Education is strengthening efforts to promote disaster preparedness and build resilience in schools.
A disaster risk insurance project in Davao is encouraging MSMEs in the region to insure themselves against natural hazards like typhoons and floods.
Oasis Loss Modelling Framework and partners have unveiled a two year project aimed at developing an open-access catastrophe model in the Philippines, housed in an open-source modelling platform. The project also aims to build capacity among Filipino stakeholders on how they can use, modify and develop catastrophe models.
In the Philippines, the Department of Education (DepEd) Cebu City Division is focusing on ensuring that 126 public schools are disaster-prepared by incorporating reduction activities into educational plans and enhancing awareness among teachers, parents, and community stakeholders.
Project Noah was developed for disaster risk reduction and management, bringing to anyone’s fingertips vital information on nine satellite mapping projects. It is also mandated to provide high-resolution flood hazard maps and install 600 automated rain gauges and 400 water level measuring stations for 18 major river basins of the Philippines.
Loren Legarda, UN Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, noted that disasters affect about 200 million people all over the world yearly, half of them women or girls whose special needs and concerns are not properly addressed, putting them at greater risk during disasters, reports Sun Star...
St. Bernard is honored to be part of the event for its opportunity of 'sharing and recognizing practices' to attain safer communities, Rosalinda Jane Araneta, Public Info Team Chair and Tourism Operations Officer at the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council told Sun Star...
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