Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cordero, Dalmacito A.

Titel

The Philippines’ Improving Response to Natural Disasters

Ist Teil von

• Disaster medicine and public health preparedness, 2024-04, Vol.18, p.e52-e52

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Many homes are modestly constructed of light materials like wood and the government has few resources to invest in infrastructure that could resist natural disasters and be used for relief efforts. The R2R training program provides manuals, guidance, and training sessions to assist the country’s Local Government Units (LGUs) in developing Local Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery Plans based on the National Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery Planning Guide, which was developed by the Government of Philippines with technical support from the World Bank. Since its deployment, the system helped the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) to monitor and respond to super typhoon Rai in December 2021, and was successfully used again for mapping the numerous landslides that occurred during tropical storm Agaton in April 2022.