Case Study of the Philippines National Red Cross: Community Based Disaster Risk Management Programming

Author(s)
Burton, C., Cabot Venton, C.
Publication language
English
Pages
30pp
Date published
07 Dec 2009
Type
Evaluation reports
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disaster risk reduction, Disasters
Countries
Philippines
Organisations
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (International
Federation), in partnership with the Philippines National Red Cross (PNRC), undertook a case study of the impact and cost effectiveness of three PNRC community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) programmes carried out in partnership with three different national societies (the Danish, German and Spanish Red Cross societies) and three different donors (DANIDA, DIPECHO and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

While each programme differed from the others in various ways, all directly or indirectly shared a common objective: to reduce the vulnerability of communities to, and strengthen their capacity to cope with, disaster impacts.