A project video of the accomplishments of the project: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation for Flood and Landslide-prone Communities in the Philippines. A CDRC project in partnership with Mercy Relief Singapore and MediaCorp.
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CDRC unveils Hazard Map in Iloilo
Iloilo – Humanitarian NGOs Panay Center for Disaster Response and Citizens’ Disaster Response Center, together with Singaporean partner Mercy Relief, unveiled the community disaster hazard map in Baranggay Tigum, Pavia, Iloilo as a culminating activity to its disaster preparedness project in Visayas and Mindanao. The project, supported by Singapore’s leading media company MediaCorp, was implemented...
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Philippines is third among countries most frequently hit by disasters in 2010
The Philippines ranked third in the list of countries most frequently hit by natural disasters in 2010, the Citizens’ Disaster Response Center reported. Carlos Padolina, CDRC’s Deputy Executive Director, cited the records of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) which showed that the Philippines was hit 14 times by natural disasters...
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CDRC welcomes PNoy’s special attention to Disaster Risk Reduction
Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC) welcomes Pnoy’s special attention to Disaster Risk Reduction A week ago, PNoy told AFP and DND to prioritize DRR programs to save lives during calamities related to climate change. According to Philippine News Agency, this was the highlight of PNoy’s command conference held in Camp Aguinaldo. Earlier this year, PNoy...