As the Philippne partner of the South Bank University in England for its Participatory Tools for Community Risk Assessment Research Project in 1999 to the first quarter of 2000. CDP was ablt to systematize its toolkit of for hazard vulnerability and capacity assessments. Funded by Caritas Netherlands (now CORDAID), CDP also undertook the translation to Filipino of Tearfund’s Chrisitan Perspective on Disaster Management: A Training Manual” from 1999 to 2000 to help mobilize church groups in CBDRM.

As part of the “Preparedness Support Program” funded by the Dutch Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (now CARE-Netherlands), CDP published the book “Citizenry-Based and Development-Oriented Disaster Response – Experiences and Practice in Disaster Management of the Citizen’s Disaster Response Network in the Philippines”. Co-authored by -authored by. Annelies Heijmans and. Lorna Victoria, the book seeks to leave a legacy behind to the Citizens’ Disaster Response Center/Network as well as promote CBDRM good practices.

Through the Japanese Embassy Grant Assistance for Grassroots Projects in the Philippines, a disaster preparedness comics, “Dumating Man Ang Unos” and a community disaster preparedness trainers manual, “ Kahandaan, Katatagan at Kaunlaran ng Komunidad” were published in 2001 and 2003 as part of the “Improvement of Community Based Disaster Management in Selected Regions in the Philippines.”

CDP was also involved in critiquing and/or developing disaster management manuals of agencies such as the “Kaligtasan At Paghahanda Para Sa Kalamidad: Isang Gabay” of the Environmental Management Bureau – DENR, National Secretariat for Social Action’s draft disaster management handbook, Medicins Sans Frontiers draft manual on emergency health, and CBDRM trainers guide and participants materials of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center.

CDP seized opportunities to promote CBDRM and present Philippine as well as other relevant CBDRM experiences and practices in international seminar and for specifically through paper presentations and publicationss. Among the well-received papers of CDP are Zenaida Delica’s “Community Mobilization on Early Warning: Community Preparedness”, “Community Involvement: The Basis for Future Disaster Reduction”, and “Practical Experiences in Preparing A Community For Disaster” and Lorna Victoria’s “Community Based Disaster Management in the Philippine: Making a Difference in People’s Lives” and “Community Based Approaches to Disaster Mitigation”.