Report from a comprehensive household vulnerability and risk study in Catanduanes and Camarines Sur provinces in the Bicol region of the Philippines that compared vulnerability in communities that had received ACF assistance versus others that had not.
Announcement by Dept. of Education in the Philippines that it will build disaster-resistant schools, which will also serve as temporary evacuation centers.
Article describing "the disaster mitigation and flood control projects which are included in the Eastern Visayas component of the Central Philippines Super Region Medium Term Public Investment Program".
Study on modelling of escape behavior and patterns by pedestrians and analysis of implications for real-life disaster and emergency scenarios. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
An article describing the innovative Community Mortgage Programme (CMP) which 'offers subsidised loans for housing development and has allowed low-income families to legalise and upgrade informal housing.'
Information from the Philippines Bureau of Internal Revenue regarding tax exemptions on properties transfered under the Community Mortgage Program
Handbook on participatory capacities and vulnerabilities assessment, recoginizing "the importance of local knowledge built on people's experience of disasters and of poor people taking the lead in addressing their vulnerabilities".
