Laws and Policies

Typhoon Haiyan Claims Lifetime Loss and Damages for Women in the Philippines

The brochure provides information on how Typhoon Haiyan serves as a primary example of the disproportionate effects of climate change and natural disasters on women. This research addresses the cultural and social norms and the lack of gender-sensitive policies that effect women’s vulnerability to natural disasters and other negative impacts of climate change. Asset Type: …

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An Act Strengthening the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System, Providing for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Framework and Institutionalizing the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan, Appropriating Funds Therefore and for other Purposes

This Act aims to uphold the people’s constitutional rights to life and property by addressing the root causes of vulnerabilities to disasters, strengthening the country’s institutional capacity for disaster risk reduction and management and building the resilience of local communities to disasters including climate change impacts. On gender perspective, it ensures that disaster risk reduction …

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Responding to the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan Priority Area E and A

In Decision 3/CP.23, Parties decided that all the topics of the annual in-session workshops taking place in the first sessional period of 2018 and 2019 will be based on the submission referred to in Activity E.1 of priority area E (Monitoring and reporting) of the Gender Action Plan (GAP). Asset Type: Publications Collection: Other Philippine …

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