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Displaying 120 of about 2235 resultsThe province of Antique is surrounded by long stretches of coast. There are numerous water safety incidents each year, but no lifesaving service is available.
The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council is seeking an AVID volunteer to help its staff and volunteers develop skills in water safety and life saving.
The volunteer will dev…
The Asia Resilience Hub team is in need of an experienced writer to lead a research on resilience. This research is primarily aimed at developing documentation of how communities that received resilience building support in Earthquake prone areas such as in Nepal and Philippines were transformed(or not) to become less affected by shocks, stresses…
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), established in 1986, is a regional non-profit foundation with headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, supporting the advancement of safer communities and sustainable development through implementing programs that reduce the impact of disasters upon countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific. The prim…
The Program Specialist for Disaster Risk Reduction together with the other members of the DRR team is responsible for growing the DRR program of IIRR in the Philippines and Asia. S/he provides technical leadership in conceptualizing, developing and innovating model propositions in disaster risk reduction and climate change mitigation and adaptation. The…
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), established in 1986, is a regional non-profit foundation with headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand supporting the advancement of safer communities and sustainable development, through implementing programs that reduce the impact of disasters upon countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific. The primary g…
Purpose
Support coordination and monitoring of ADB's policies and strategies pertaining to climate change adaptation (CCA), disaster risk reduction (DRR), and climate change/disaster risk financing, support regional departments in implementing ADB’s integrated disaster risk management (IDRM) model, with a focus on CCA-DRR linkages and development, ensu…
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EMI, an international, not-for-profit organization involved in urban development and disaster risk management currently seeks a Knowledge Manager to head the KM Unit of the organization. As head of the unit, he/she will have overall responsibility to lead in planning, organizing, documenting and supporting the development, dissemination, mai…
The Philippine Strategic National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction (SNAP) is a road map indicating the vision and strategic objectives of the Philippines for the next 10 years while pursuing the strategic goals of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). The SNAP takes off from the Four-Point Plan of Action on Disaster Preparedness (4PPADP…
As part of the UN Women programme ‘Women and Girls at the Centre of COVID-19 Prevention,’ Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG) developed a framework and tools for assessing the progress and impact of women’s leadership and meaningful participation in the COVID-19 response.
The framework and tools were tested in the Philippines and a baseline report was pr…
This article verifies the applicability of an assessment method on flood risk reduction, combining and assessing hazard control measures and exposure reduction measures together. The method develops collated flood risk curves and uses limited data, so it is an approach which can be readily applied in developing countries, where an understanding of flood…
This report presents information on constituents and components of some well-recognized global, regional, and national Disaster Information Management System (DIMS). These components have been studied for their core features and impacts created, from which learnings have been compiled as suggestions for inclusion in the BIPAD portal. As different countr…
This training was designed primarily for city officials who are involved in collecting, analyzing or presenting M&E data—both for indicators within a climate change action plan, as well as other city projects. The training objectives included participants being able to:
Apply M&E methods and principles to climate change action plan activities…
Southeast Asia is home to an estimated 36 million people living below the international poverty line, about 5% of the global total. If efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in this region are to succeed, undertaking disaster risk-informed developments is not a choice, but a necessity. Natural hazards impact large areas throughout the…
This paper addresses a need for a paradigm shift towards more proactive and adaptive drought management across South-East Asia. The report provides the evidence base for these interventions, including the recently adopted ASEAN Declaration on the Strengthening of Adaptation to Drought.
The report presents three policy tracks: i) reduce and prevent; ii)…
This report explores the question "What is the current state of migration in the context of climate emergency in the Philippine setting?" To do so, the study utilizes two types of evidence a) literature review and b) exploratory interviews with community members and local governments. All interviewees in this study were defined as being vulnerable to th…