Target C: Reduce direct disaster economic loss

The competition and awards aim to inspire content producers across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond to cover the two most critical issues for the future of mankind: climate change and disaster risk reduction.

ABU has been at the forefront of issues on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction. Through the summits, this commitment aims at: strengthening the collaboration of broadcasting organizations; encourage the production and dissemination of relevant content; and promote information-sharing networks

Representatives of Makati City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) organized a study visit to Japan to explore new ideas, technology and management structure of public disaster education facilities in Kobe, Osaka, and Sakai cities.

Sendai City conducted its own Midterm Review of the implementation of the Sendai Framework, considering the importance of the local government level implementation of the Sendai Framework.

Talks and Workshops on community self-protection and community resilience

Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. partnered with the Climate Change Commission in conducting trainings on Local Climate Change Action Planning to increase capacities of local municipalities.

The Aboitiz Group is building its capacity to build resilience on climate change impacts to assets and its employees. In our goal to be climate change-resilient, we developed a system to identify and assess risks, and to provide our stakeholders with relevant and updated information.

The Resilient Homes Fund includes three funding programs to improve Queenslander’s residences’ resilience to flooding through resilient retrofit, home raising, or voluntary buy-back programs.

Queensland leads the nation in delivering betterment programs that demonstrate how upfront investments in stronger, more resilient assets, saves money for all levels of government in future disasters.

PDRF, through the Philippine Preparedness Partnership (PHILPREP), developed tools to increase the awareness of MSMEs to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters in the Philippines thereby strengthening disaster resilience of MSMEs in the Philippines.