Tag: disaster risk management
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Pakistan Faces $50 Billion Financing Gap to Tackle Climate Change, UNDP Warns
UNDP Raises Alarm Over Pakistan’s Climate Financing Gap The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has issued a stark warning about Pakistan’s ability to confront climate-related challenges. Dr. Samuel Rizk, the UNDP Representative in Pakistan, stated that the country faces a severe financing gap as it scales up efforts to adapt to climate impacts, transition to…
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Outcry and Floods: Philippines Confronts a Corruption Scandal Tied to Disasters
Introduction: A Nation on the Edge In the Philippines, a deadly flood season has become inseparable from a growing political crisis. After the death of health worker Christina Padora in Bulacan—electrocuted by a live wire amid waist-deep waters—the country’s anger shifted from isolated tragedies to a widening reckoning over the integrity of flood-control spending. Authorities…
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Push for Magna Carta for Public Disaster Risk Reduction Workers Gains Momentum in House
Lawmakers Consider a Magna Carta for Public DRRM Workers As a series of powerful earthquakes continues to shake various regions, a push in the Philippine House of Representatives aims to recognize and strengthen the welfare of those who stand on the frontlines of disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM). Congressman Brian Raymund Yamsuan of Parañaque’s…