disaster resilience

Ma. Merlyn Cesista, barangay health worker, is among the residents of a relocation site for victims of typhoon Hagupit in Brgy. Dapdap, Dolores, Eastern Samar. (Photo: Roy Lagarde/Oxfam)

Communal comfort rooms: Protecting human dignity and promoting women’s safety

Residents of a relocation site at the outskirt of Dolores town in Eastern Samar province waited years for their dream to have a well-constructed and clean communal toilet to become a reality. Until less than a year ago, many villagers had no option but to take a lengthy walk to a field to urinate...

Leo Plata carrying coconuts in a traditionally woven pair of baskets in the village of Malobago in Eastern Samar province’s Dolores town. (Photo: Roy Lagarde/Oxfam)

Surviving Odette with pre-typhoon cash aid

As a fisher for most of his life, Pablito Abejuela is used to harsh weather shrinking his family’s earnings. He heads out with his small boat in the morning to catch fishes off the coast of Malobago in Dolores, Eastern Samar even when the waves have not been too friendly days before super typhoon...

Families vulnerable to calamities receive pre-disaster aid

Alvin Ocena lives in a humble and small house on the outskirts of Malobago village in Dolores, a rural town in the Philippines' Eastern Samar province. When disasters strike, they often lose their homes and properties on which their survival depends.

Distribution of iAFFORD Cards to project participants in Barangay Matarinao, one of the priority areas of the B-READY Project. (Photo: PDRRN)

Climate science meets participatory pre-disaster response

“Everything begins with the science,” says Global Parametrics founder Professor Jerry Skees. B-READY was Global Parametrics’ first involvement in a project that values and operationalizes communityparticipation in anticipatory financing for DRR.

Lessons from B-READY

The Philippines is where the B-READY concept was born and developed. The experience of Oxfam in cashtransfer programming in the country specially during the humanitarian response in the aftermath of STY Haiyanand the connectivity to Global Parametrics led to the pilot implementation of the B-READY...

Distribution of iAFFORD Cards to project participants in Barangay Burak, one of the priority areas of the B-READY Project. (Photo: PDRRN)

No one left behind

It has been acknowledged that women and men experience disasters differently. Gender and otherintersecting factors such as socio- economic conditions, cultural beliefs, and traditional practices shapethe disaster experience of individuals, as well as their ability to recover.

A mother and merchant during a cash out transaction in Barangay Palanas. (Photo: PDRRN)

Financial technology in the service of disaster-resilient communities

Over time, there has been a growing acknowledgment that cash transfer is an efficient strategy for deliveringaid because it provides recipients the power and flexibility to decide and acquire what they need and, in theprocess, jumpstart the local economy.

Distribution of iAFFORD Cards to project participants in Barangay Butig, one of the priority areas of the B-READY Project. (Photo: PDRRN)

When thinking ahead and working together means saving lives

There are two things that PDRRN values in the B-READY Project – forward thinking and working together. For the network, anticipation and partnership are key to saving lives and building back better, faster.

Hope and courage in the face of disasters

As an active volunteer and mother-leader herself, there is nothing else that she desires more than her familyand community’s safety in times of calamities and disasters, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Preparedness through Disaster Risk Reduction Governance

With its vision of modeling a safer, adaptive, anddisaster risk-resilient municipality, the municipality of Salcedo in Eastern Samar province was chosen as the pilot implementation area for the B-READY Project. Home toalmost 23,000 individuals that make up around 5,000households, the fifth-class...

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