June 30, 2020

RKES: Factsheet on Community Quarantine Facilities

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...

June 22, 2020

Portraits of Resilience: Community-based Early Warning System

In 2006, a landslide in Barangay Guinsaugon in Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte killed more than a thousand people. The event underscored the municipality’s vulnerability to...

June 16, 2020

Calabanga’s Mangrove Reforestation: A Decade After (Portraits of Resilience)

Effective and sustainable disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation is almost impossible to achieve without safeguarding the health of ecosystems. And in some cases,...

June 15, 2020

MOVE UP Philippines Vlog Series No. 1

The MOVE UP Philippines conducted a Community Risk Assessment in July 2019 which was designed to encourage the participation of vulnerable sectors such as women,...

June 15, 2020

Portraits of Resilience: Our Land, Our School, Our Future

In the remote village of Han-ayan, Lianga, Surigao del Sur, the Lumad continue to face difficulties to their way of life and right to self-determination....

June 11, 2020

Portraits of Resilience: Champions of Resilience

In many of CARE and ACCORD’s partner communities, both urban and rural, there are individuals who stand out because they go above and beyond what...

June 3, 2020

IRM and Its Complex Cities

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...

June 1, 2020

Key Messages and Case Studies on Integrated Risk Management (IRM)

This document contains a compilation of key messages about Integrated Risk Management (IRM). It also includes a discussion of the resilience strengthening roles of local...

May 26, 2020

Portraits of Resilience: Resilient Livelihoods (Case Story)

Disasters cause substantial losses not only in lives but also in livelihoods. Chronic disasters cause the adverse impacts of these losses to accumulate by not...