November 17, 2020

Minimum Standards for Local Climate-Smart Disaster Risk Reduction: Informing the Development of the Post-2015 HFA

As the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) draws to an end and disaster-related loss and damage continues to increase, an important opportunity arises to shape…

October 19, 2020

Ugnayan at Bahaginan | Combining Indigenous Knowledge and Scientific Information Towards Resilience

Originally Written: October 1, 2014 By Amian Tauli    Ti daga ket biag. Land is life. This quote is a truism that the indigenous people…

October 19, 2020

Ugnayan at Bahaginan | Doing Good DRR is Good Governance: A Monitoring and Evaluation Perspective

Originally Written: September 30, 2014 By Omer Mejia   Arsenio came in the front door of the two-storey barangay hall. He is searching for a…

October 19, 2020

Ugnayan at Bahaginan | Empowered to Serve

Originally Written: August 19, 2014 By Darwin Masacupan  This feature story was also published online by Rappler.com in time for World Humanitarian Day 2014    …

October 19, 2020

Ugnayan at Bahaginan | Maharlika Elementary School Teachers Living and Learning with Floods

Originally Written: October 2, 2014 By Sindhy Obias   Teaching is undoubtedly hard work. But for teachers in a small school that is flooded for at least…

October 19, 2020

Ugnayan at Bahaginan | Scaling Up Their Dreams

Originally Written: October 4, 2014 By Darwin Masacupan   It was so bright that day, and not just because of the noontime sun directly over…

October 16, 2020

CFs: Si Anna, si Ronnie, at Marami Pa Sila

(Lifted from the book “Safe, Resilient Communities: The ACCORD Model”, published by Accord Inc., 2011)   In 2007, eight women - mostly mothers - assembled…

October 14, 2020

The Calabanga Experience

(Lifted from the book “Safe, Resilient Communities: The ACCORD Model", published by ACCORD Inc., 2011)    The sweetest reward is a resilient community. This is…

October 14, 2020

The Houses the Ob-obbo Built

(Lifted from the book “Safe, Resilient Communities: The ACCORD Model”, published by ACCORD Inc., 2011)    In Bontoc and other parts of Mountain Province, the…