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August 17, 2012

500 families affected by monsoon rains receive aid

TORM with ACCORD, Brigada Kalikasan Extend Aid to Families Affected by Monsoon Rains Malabon City, Manila 17 Aug. 12— TORM Shipping Philippines has mobilized PhP 200,000 to extend assistance to 500 families affected by heavy monsoon rains that drenched most…
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August 3, 2012

Partners for Resilience project brochure

  Multiple humanitarian, development and environmental organizations have joined forces as ‘Partners for Resilience’ (PfR) with the aim of reducing the impact of natural hazards on vulnerable communities. The partners strongly believe in the central role of resilience as the…
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July 3, 2012

Scale up, Build up project brochure

Scale up, Build up: Strengthening local alliances and advocacy and empowering champions ondisaster risk reduction PDF Download: DIPECHO8 Scale Up Build Up – Project Briefer

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June 3, 2012

Most significant change

During the handover activities of the ASCEND Project, stories were plentiful of important lessons learnt, and of changes of great consequence. Talk about the end of the project, about exit strategies and responsible handover started as early as the inception…
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June 3, 2012

The houses that ob-obbo built

In Bontoc and other parts of Mountain Province, the spirit of community cooperation still prevails. Community members work together in planting or harvesting in one’s ricefield, moving to another member’s ricefield the next day, until all the ob-obbo members’ ricefields…
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June 3, 2012

Mainstreaming DRR in livelihoods

Leonora Silawan, Noel Casungcad, Jose Molin, and Generoso Aguila from Barangay Balatasan have sold a lot of crabs during the recent fiesta of Calabanga municipality. A month before, they bought 103 pieces of crabs weighing about 200 grams each on…
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June 3, 2012

The Calabanga Experience

Mainstreaming DRR-CCA into local governance is good governance “The sweetest reward is a resilient community.” This is how Mayor Evelyn Yu summarized her experience working with CARE and partners. She is the municipal mayor of Calabanga in Camarines Sur, a…
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June 3, 2012

Pride and Hope in Gabions and Mangrove Trees

The shoreline along the east of Cagsao, a coastal village in Calabanga, Camarines Sur, is thickly covered with mangrove trees of almost 2 meters high. In less than three years, these trees will be fully grown for the community to…
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June 3, 2012

Sir Jimmy Evangelista of Paltic Elementary School

Paltic Elementary School, in Dingalan municipality, lies at the foot of the Sierra Madre Mountains facing the Pacific Ocean. In 2004, the school witnessed a massive landslide that claimed hundreds of lives and properties in the village. Following the disaster,…
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