http://www.cdp.org.ph Disaster Preparedness Philippines Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:33:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) seeks to contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment. The CBDRM Training and Learning Circle (TLC) network has developed this training manual on Integrating Gender into Community Based Disaster Risk Management, to help harness the capacities of both women and men in addressing vulnerable ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/gender-cbdrm/ The recent disasters experienced by the Philippines due to tropical storm Ondoy and Pepeng has again left a massive loss to life and property in the country. According to NDCC, approximate damages caused by Ondoy to the agriculture and infrastructure sector alone has reached almost P 5 billion, with almost ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/features/drrm-bill/ The Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) Philippines congratulates and salutes the Citizen's Disaster Response Center (CDRC) on its 25th year of dedicated service in the name of Community Based Disaster Risk Management in the Philippines! Both CDP and CDRC has gone a long way in advocating CBDRM. In 1999, CDRC's ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/highlights/cdrc25/ GENERAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS Click here for the "Views from the Frontline" abridged handbook The Center for Disaster Preparedness has been selected as the National Coordinating Organization for the "Views from the Frontline” Hyogo Framework for Action  (HFA) monitoring and review project. The project involves joint research, information sharing and learning ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/highlights/views-from-the-frontline/ CBDRM-TLC releases its first newsletter this September 2009. The newsletter highlights the various accomplishments and activites of the TLC program in the Philippines to date since the program started in 2007. The TLC responds to the ongoing demand for evidence-based, context-specific, up-to-date and applied CBDRM resources / tools for ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/tlc-news1/ The case study “The Institutionalization of Disaster Risk Reduction in Community Development Education: The UP CSWCD Experience” is on the involvement of the College of Social Work and Community Development of the University of the Philippines in CBDRM through its field placement program and integration of 2 new courses on ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/case2-upcswcd/ The forum “A Conversation on Opportunities and Challenges in Disaster Studies and Research in Philippine Universities and Colleges" was held last ugust 08, 2008, at the College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines. The forum was one of the activities of the CBDRM Training and Learnign ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/conversations/ The training manual "Pagsasanay sa Disaster Preparedness at Contingency Planning" is composed of four modules that were based on the experiences of communities, schools, and the local government units under the project Strengthening Assets and Capacities of Communities and Local Governments for Resilience to Disasters (ACCORD). The ACCORD Project is funded ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/pdpcp/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="422" caption="Bangladeshi study tour participants at DILG"][/caption] A Study Tour participated in by nine senior government officials from different line agencies in Bangladesh, and one representative of the European Commission in Bangladesh was held in the Philippines from April 11-15, 2009.  The study tour was conducted through the ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/highlights/bangladesh-studytour/ ICCO & KERK IN ACTIE CBDRM Training cum Study Visit in the Philippines November 17-30, 2008 The InterChurch Organization for development Cooperation (ICCO) and Kerk in Actie based in The Netherlands organized an exchange visit in the Philippines from November 17-30, 2008, to enhance the capacities of their partner organizations in Indonesia, ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/highlights/recent-trainings-study-visits/ The publication MAINSTREAMING OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR IN THE PHILIPPINES has three main parts: Part A: Integrating DRR in the School Curriculum: Project Experience Part B: Study on Impact of Disasters on the Education Sector Part C: School Construction: Current Practices and Improvements Needed The second part of the document ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/drr-education/ The case study on "Developing a Curriculum for a Ladderized Master in Disaster Risk Management Program: Case of the Camarines Sur State Agricultural College, Bicol-Philippines" is first of a series of case studies on "Institutionalizing Disaster Risk Management in Higher Education and Training Institutions" in the Philippines. The idea of developing ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/cssac-case1/ The theme of the December 2007 issue of Tropical Coasts Newsletter features this article on "Local Knowledge and Practices for Disaster Preparedness" by Lorna P. Victoria of the Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) Philippines. The article focuses how local knowledge and practices can be applied to community-based disaster risk management, and ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/local-knowledge-and-practices-for-disaster-preparedness/ This paper / case study by Mayfourth D. Luneta of the Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) Philippines and in partnership with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), is part of the UNISDR publication “Building Disaster Resilient Communities - Good Practices and Lessons Learned" which was developed by the Global Network ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/mainstreaming-community-based-mitigation-in-city-governance/ The COPRAP Toolkit comprises tools which were found effective during the course of the Child-Oriented Participatory Risk Assessment and Planning (COPRAP) field work in Barangay Banaba, San Mateo, Rizal, Philippines.  In most disaster events, children’s perspective, needs and capacities are most often neglected or taken for granted. Even though children ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/child-oriented-participatory-risk-assessment-and-planning-coprap-a-toolkit/ The trainor's manual on "Intergrating Children's Rights in Barangay Disaster Management and Development" is one of the major outputs of the project "Mainstreaming Child Rights Programming in Community-Based Disaster Management" implemented by the BALAY Rehabilitation Center, Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) Philippines, and Save the Children-UK (SC-UK) in the municipality ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/intergrating-childrens-rights-in-barangay-disaster-management-and-development-a-trainors-manual/ This paper / case study by Lorna P. Victoria and Jesusa Grace Molina of the Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) Philippines and in partnership with Buklod Tao Inc. is part of the UNISDR publication "Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Poverty Reduction: Good Practices and Lessons Learned" which was developed by ... http://www.cdp.org.ph/publications/strengthening-community-resilience-linking-livelihood-and-environmental-management/