New elearning pathway for Filipino volunteers
“Human suffering must be addressed wherever it is found.” A disaster occurs which has devastated the Philippines, you want to help, your community has been affected, your compassion and empathy…
Blended Learning Approach to Strengthen Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Theresa works as a Program Officer for the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI), an organisation that is currently convening the first Wellbeing Cluster in the Philippines. The cluster was set…
Strengthening Capacities: Sustaining efforts in managing the dead and missing
The Philippines has experienced countless natural and man-made disasters, each one stronger than before, leaving thousands of casualties and missing loved ones. The country has endured 274 natural calamities affecting…
Alwaleed Philanthropies visit the Philippines and East Africa Academy Centres
Alwaleed Philanthropies are a founding partner of the Academy, and have supported our mission to enable people to prepare for and respond to crises in their own communities since we…
Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System course now live on Kaya
The Philippines Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in partnership with the Humanitarian Leadership Academy Philippines launched the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System online course on August 3, 2018.…
Wellbeing Cluster launch renews commitments to humanitarian resilience
In January 2017, the Humanitarian Leadership Academy in the Philippines supported the “Jump-Starting of the Wellbeing Cluster (WC) in Cebu City”. This is the initial phase leading to piloting the…
Partnering to build capacities
For the past four years Give2Asia and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction have been implementing the NGO Disaster Preparedness Program. The Program aims to increase the impacts of investing…
‘The Nation Needs You – Philippine Volunteer Essentials’ first online course is live
In observance of National Disaster Resilience Month in the Philippines, we are happy to announce that 'The Nation Needs You – Philippine Volunteer Essentials’ first online course is now live.…
A year after the Marawi crisis: “What happened to our dead and missing?”
“What happened to our dead and missing?” asked Sittie Joharah Pacalundo of Sowara o Miyamagoyag, Voice of the Marawi Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs), during the National Conversation: 'Promoting the Wellbeing…
Cavite Contingency Planning for the “Big One”
It is not easy. Contingency Plans take time to develop. This is the second meeting in a series of steps needed to be taken in drafting Cavite’s Contingency Plan (CP).…
