Reducing risks by implementing small scale mitigation and strengthening livelihood The session will discuss how communities in Tadian and Talacogon are using their capacities in implementing small-scale mitigation and livelihood actions as part of the measures to reduce disaster…
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Building the foundation of a resilient community through participatory and inclusive risk assessment Community risk assessment is an important first step to building resilient communities. It is a participatory, multi-disciplinary process that looks into the probability of hazards occurring…
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The concurrent sessions of the Conference aim to provide insights on how resilience is built. Sharing their experiences are representatives from barangay and municipal LGUs, the DILG and DRR practitioners.
In photo: Productive discussions at the build-up activity for the four municipalities last October 8 ACCORD and the municipalities of Calabanga, Canaman, Magarao, and Bombon convened last October 8, 2014 to discuss the next steps they can undertake…
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This year's iteration of the LGU Conference will not be possible without the generous support of several partners, who believe in the same goal as ACCORD: building resilient communities.
The conference provides a venue for learning how at-risk communities can start the process of doing DRR and ecosystem restoration while considering climate projections and the possibility of extreme weather events, and how these efforts can be sustained using their…
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The conference will feature both plenary and concurrent sessions where community-based experiences and learnings in DRR-CCA-EMR will be presented. A press briefing will be held at lunch time where media professionals will have a chance to clarify further points with…
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As part of their further immersion into the work of building community resilience, participants will visit areas in Camarines Sur to see how DRR-CCA-EMR projects are implemented. It is hoped that armed with this context, participants can better synthesize lessons…
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Durungan ha pagtindog (rising up together). Stories of tragedy turned into stories of unity and collective recovery from Typhoon #Haiyan. This is just one facet of #bayahihan in action! Brgy. Katipunan, Dagami, Leyte
Last September 7, residents and leaders of flood-prone barangays in Malabon and Valenzuela (Potrero, Catmon, Tagalag, and Balangkas) participated in the Protect-a-Hectare program of the La Mesa Watershed. Together, they were able to plant a total of 720 seedlings across…
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