The United Nations system, coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction, has guidelines for nations and municipalities to manage natural hazard risk. Foremost among these, in many ...

Natural disaster losses are increasing both in their frequency of occurrence and severity of impacts worldwide due to climate change and socio-economic development in disaster-prone regions. In ...

Thank you for the opportunity to address this plenary discussion on the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. I appreciate today’s theme, which looks beyond natural ...

A month-long national training and internship programme aimed at building awareness and expertise among youth on climate ...

The term “Tech for Good” has popped up in national and international conversations. It often exists to counter to complaints and attention drawn to the technology community’s role in a variety of ...

The Pampanga Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) has approved the realignment of more than P60 ...

Disaster risk communication traditionally focuses on authorities conveying hazard and risk information to at-risk populations, with little consideration of local community knowledge. To enable risk ...

ILOILO CITY — The local government here has allocated P1.6 million in financial assistance to eight local government units (LGUs) in Mindanao severely affected by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that ...

THE magnitude 7.8 offshore earthquake off Maasim, Sarangani Province damaged a total of 87,100 houses, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported. That said, 15,400 ...

Harnessing the collective capabilities of APRU universities for interdisciplinary research in disaster management, students attended talks by the professors from different universities and ...

MANILA, Philippines — Local governments were urged to take advantage of the geohazard maps risk data of the Department of ...