Humanitarian actors around the world are becoming overwhelmed with increasingly destructive, complex, and chronic disasters. Globally, more than 200 million people are affected by natural disasters every year, with those living in low-income countries being three times as much affected as those in high-income nations. Just as people are recovering from one disaster, another one comes along, setting back humanitarian response and development gain. This setback can be avoided by humanitarian assistance and strengthening resilience.
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Routinely cleaning and disinfecting our homes has become much more of a necessity nowadays as it helps keep ourselves and our families safe and healthy even when we spend most of our time at home.
Did you know that cleaning and disinfecting are two different things? What steps should be taken to make sure our homes stay clean even when we come from outside?
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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In the Philippines, a disaster can strike almost anytime. With a higher risk brought by pandemic, go bags or survival kits come in handy. While the usual inclusions of a go-bag should be prepared, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) materials and gender-inclusive items should also be considered to make sure no one gets left behind when a disaster hits your community.
Check out these social media cards produced during this year’s National Disaster Resilience Month which had the theme “Sama-samang Pagsulong Tungo sa Katatagan sa Gitna ng Bagong Normal“:
Increasing the Resilience to Natural Hazards (INCREASE) aims to increase the resilience of 45,000 women and men small-scale farmers and fishers, including 720 extremely poor female-headed households, to natural hazards and the effects of climate change. It is implemented by CARE with support from the Skala Initiative and Phineo, in partnership with ACCORD Incorporated, Cordillera Disaster Response and Development Services, Leyte Center for Development, Inc. , and Agri-Aqua Development Coalition (AADC).
This instructional video details the steps in preparing, conducting, and evaluating a community drill. This will serve as an important resource for vulnerable communities and their local government units preparing for disasters.
This video is based on the actual Community Flood Evacuation Drill held in June 2014 that was conducted by the Assistance and Cooperation for Community Resilience and Development (ACCORD) in partnership with the Barangay Portero Disaster Risk Reduction Committee and the Malabon City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office through the Partners for Resilience project.
COVID-19 cases are continuously rising causing an immediate need to address hospitals’ surge capacity in the country. MOVE UP, PfR, and a Czech-funded urban resilience projects responded to this challenge by translating the Alternative Temporary Shelter System (an urban resilience strategy addressing the lack of dignified space and shelters for internally displaced families affected by disasters) into CQFs. The CQFs are made to complement the government’s effort to address the increasing need for isolation facilities for cases of COVID-19.
To learn more about Community Quarantine Facilities, view and download the link to the factsheet by clicking on this link.
There are several assumptions about COVID-19 – how it can be spread, how it can be it be killed, among others. Apart from keeping our social distance and maintaining our health, we must also be fully informed about what COVID-19 is in order to assure that we can act and react best based on accurate facts about the virus.
Below is a set of social media cars covering myths about COVID-19.
The information featured in these designs was sourced from the World Health Organization.
The Philippines holds valuable lessons in the merging, unique practice of Integrated Risk Management (IRM) in the urban context. The MANATUTI River Basin, which is one of the primary focuses of the Partners for Resilience (PfR) project, is located in the highly urbanized National Capital Region, specifically in Quezon City, Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, and Valenzuela (QC-CAMANAVA). The multiple jurisdictions governing the landscape and the complexity of intermingling factors present in the urban context provide a challenging arena for the practice.
The first four targets of the Sendai framework for action directly focus on the decrease of diaster mortality, affected people, economic loss, and damage to critical facilities and services. Meeting the targets is a huge task for highly-urbanized landscapes, where larger, more concentrated populations, investments, and critical facilities are exposed to higher risks. This makes all the more imperative to perfect the practice of urban IRM.
To read more about constructing IRM in urban ecosystems, click the link below to view and download the document.
Click here to view and download the complete IRM and its Complex Cities document.
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