Executive summary The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2021 looks at an exceptional year. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic gripped the world, compounding existing needs and fuelling new crises...
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Executive summary The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2021 looks at an exceptional year. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic gripped the world, compounding existing needs and fuelling new crises...
By Jennifer C. Tilos Published on June 16, 2020 DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, June 16 (PIA) -- The more than three-hectare land development area in Brgy. Banilad that will serve as relocation site...
By Jennifer C. Tilos DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental, July 19 (PIA)-–Some 371 identified victims of Typhoon Sendong in 2011 will be relocated and granted their own homes after the current city...
By Recthie T. Paculba CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, July 11 (PIA)—Cagayan de Oro City Government has set up a 2.4-hectare housing project as relocation assistance to residents devastated by Typhoon Sendong. ...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, May 5 -- As a pro-active measure against flooding, the 18th City Council headed by Vice Mayor Raineir Joaquin V. Uy during its regular session approved on first reading a...
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INTRODUCTION This publication is an initiative of the Regional Consultative Group (RCG) on Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination for Asia and the Pacific. The RCG seeks to not only link the region...
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Description: The number and scale of crises are forcing record numbers of people to flee their homes seeking relative safety within or across international borders. However, the growing complexity...
OCHA delivers its mandate through… COORDINATION OCHA brings together people, tools and experience to save lives OCHA helps Governments access tools and services that provide life-saving relief. We...
Despite impressive progress to address poverty and food insecurity, climate-related hazards could threaten these hard-won development gains. Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the central part of the country...
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Summary Persons with disabilities often experience discrimination and exclusion, despite the adoption of an increasingly rights-based approach to humanitarian assistance. The past three decades have...
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman in a press briefing last Friday shed light on the issues cited in the 2013 Audit Report of the Commission on...
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Disaster Vulnerability and Donor Opportunity in South and Southeast Asia outlines opportunities for donors of all kinds to support disaster preparedness and risk reduction programs in six of the...
Kagayan Evangelical Disaster Response Network (KEDRN), a non-government organization (NGO) in Cagayan de Oro City, built lofts for free as an added feature to the core shelter units constructed by...
By: Mildred E. Dablio CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Sept. 4 - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Region X carries on restoring lives of displaced workers due to Typhoon Sendong which hit Cagayan de...
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The fourth edition of ‘Shelter Projects’, is launched at a time when shelter is more relevant than ever as an instrument of humanitarian response. The case studies in this edition reflect the...
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Minister Akio Isomata, Embassy of Japan's Minister for Economic Affairs turned over fishing nets and dredging machines to the Department of Agriculture (DA) and Department of Public Works and...
CHAPTER 1 Key lessons learnt from evaluations after typhoons in the Philippines A number of key lessons emerged from the Real-time Evaluation of the response to the disasters that affected Northern...
Period covered by this update: 21 December 2011 to 28 February 2013 Appeal target (current): CHF 5,705,280 Appeal coverage: 78 per cent Appeal history: Operations update 7, issued on 16 November 2012...
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By Lucy Westcott This story is the final installment of a three-part series on the challenges faced by people living with disabilities in a world where intense storms and other natural disasters are...
Executive Summary The Philippines is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. It experiences around 900 earthquakes and typhoons annually, and almost three quarters of the population...