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Displaying 9 of about 9 resultsJapan and the Philippines are both geographically prone to disasters, owing to their location on the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Long before the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year blueprint for reducing global disaster losses, Japan has been helping developing nations boost their capacity and infrastructure to mitigate di…
The ninth feature in this Making Cities Resilient 2030 series, under the theme ‘From Risk to Resilience: Building a Local Climate of Success’, profiles Makati, in Philippines
As the Philippines’ business capital, Makati City goes from a city of 600,000 residents to one of 5 million each day. With a robust economy and growing business opportunities, Mak…
The City of Makati in the Philippines is named as the second Resilience Hub of Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) in the Asia-Pacific region on 27 September 2022.
Makati has already been recognized as a Role Model City of the MCR 2010-2020 initiative by sharing know-how and experiences for reducing disaster risk, building urban resilience with othe…
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These educational videos are meant to summarize the key actions governments and stakeholders can take to reduce disaster displacement. The videos, available in English (Timor-Leste), Tagalog (the Philippines), and Bahasa Indonesia, are based on the Checklist on Disaster Displacement and are meant to complement the Words into Action Guidelines on Disaste…
MCR2030 Resilience Hubs, namely Incheon, Makati and Mexico City, held the webinar, “Learning from Our MCR Hubs” to share experiences, best practices and recommendations on strengthening disaster resilience in their respective cities on 8 November 2022.
City leaders from the Asia-Pacific, Americas and Caribbean covered a range of topics with a focus on…
This report documents the assessment of the status of national disaster loss databases in 13 countries and presents lessons to guide the next generation of disaster loss accounting systems (DLAS). Monitoring disaster loss and damage is an integral part of risk governance, humanitarian programming, and public and private investments. Disasters…
For the past few weeks in the Philippines, Mr. Jerome Balinton and the humanitarian organization Save The Children have been marshalling resources in preparation for what they expected to be a major typhoon.
“Even before our Philippines State Weather Bureau issued a tropical cyclone advisory, internally we already sent out an alert to the senior manage…
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Objectives
To call for greater understanding and investment in expanding multi-hazard, end-to-end and people-centered early warning systems and early action for all.
To raise awareness and mobilize action around the urgency to achiev…