Philippines
- Capital:
Manila - Population:
99900177 - Size:
300000.0 Km2
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- The BLDS print collection
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Browse all the latest print documents from the British Library of Development Studies...
- Climate change adaptation for coral triangle communities: a guide for vulnerability assessment and local early action planning (LEAP guide)
- 2013
- This comprehensive set of scientific and social instruments helps local governments and communities to assess their vulnerability to climate change and form their own climate change adaptation plans to address local conditions. So far...
- Pragmatic Use of ICT for Effective Disaster Management Governance And Participation
- M. V. G. Pineda 2009
- This paper intends to impart two pragmatic ways of utilizing ICT in disaster governance. First is facilitating cooperation among the different government agencies through a web-based Disaster Coordination System to address disaster ma...
- Government Information Systems Plan: Philippine Government Online
- F. A. Uriarte 2000
- This document is a master plan that sets the enabling policy and institutional infrastructure and environment, as well as the direction, priorities, and benchmarks for computerization of key government operations and activities over t...
- Information and Communication Technology for Development: ADB Experiences
- M. G. Mirandilla 2010
- The ability of ICT to change the way people do things is either hidden in internal processes—such as how a government office manages data collection—or manifest in the end product. While the level and nature of the benefits ...
- MSM Country Snapshot Series: PHILIPPINES
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2012
- This snapshot provides information on the current situation for HIV and LGBT rights and advocacy in the Philippines. The Philippines has among the lowest rates of HIV transmission in the region, with an estimated total of just over 10...
- Global assessment of how countries have been affected by weather-related loss events
- S. Harmeling; D. Eckstein / Germanwatch, 2012
- This report analyses the extent to which countries have been affected by weather-related loss events. It warns that the window for putting the world on a track to stay below two degrees Celsius is rapidly closing and preparations must...
- Perceptions and adaptation capacities of fisher men on climate change: the case of Palawan, Philippines
- M. Pana / Trisanita, 2012
- This study is based on perceptions gathered through interviews with fisher men and their community leaders in Palawan, the Philippines. The results show that variations in the fisher men’s perceptions of climate change are mainly...
- Alternative pathways to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction: mainstreaming and integration in development planning and budgeting of local government units
- AIT-UNEP Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific, 2012
- This toolkit is an output of the Adaptation Knowledge Platform’s (AKP) capacity building activities in the Philippines. AKP and its country partner, the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), facilitated a knowledge building process...
- Monitoring of environmental policies in the Philippines is undermined by corruption
- G.M. Anda / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2011
- National efforts aimed at reversing forest degradation in the Philippines have taken on a new dimension in the context of recent international focus on actions aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change. This issue paper is sou...
- Mainstreaming climate resilience into government: the Philippines' Climate Change Act
- K. Lofts / Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
- The Philippines is at high risk from rising sea levels and a projected increase in severe tropical storms due to its geography and location. The vulnerability of its population to climate change is made worse by high poverty levels, a...
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI)
- International organisation focusing on urban disaster risk reduction
- Social Weather Stations (SWS)
- SWS was established in August 1985 as a private non-stock, nonprofit social research institution. Its members are social scientists in economics, political science, sociology, statistics, market research, and other fields. Its basic functions include: social analysis and research, with stress on social indicators and the development of new data sources design and im...
- Regional Office for the Western Pacific, World Health Organisation
- The Western Pacific Regional Office, located in Manila, the Philippines, represents WHO in the Asia Pacific. The office aims to act as the "health conscience of the Region" and operates semi-autonomously with its own regional budget. The regional office's role is to act as a catalyst and advocate for action at all levels, from local to global, on health issues of pu...
- Pailig Development Foundation, Inc. (PDFI)
- PAILIG DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC. (PDFI) is a non-profit NGO which works in the field of conflict transformation; emergency relief and rehabilitation; community empowerment and development; livelihoods and income generation and human rights protection and the rule of law.
- IBON International (IBON)
- IBON provides support in research and education to peoples’ movements and grassroots empowerment, and advocacy, and links these to international initiatives and networks. IBON initiates and implements international programs, develops and hosts international networks, initiates and participates in international advocacy campaigns, and establishes regional and country offices...
- Asian Development Bank Learning Curves
- Learning lessons with ADB
- Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC)
- Communication research institute
- Tebtebba Foundation, Phillippines
- Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
