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…
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…
Get your business ready for disasters – Business Continuity Planning resources
The Humanitarian Leadership Academy and Unilever have been working together to develop a pioneering programme to provide Business Continuity Planning (BCP) training to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in…
Breaking the taboo on Management of the Dead and Missing during disasters
Following the first Management of the Dead and Missing (MDM) sensitization session in Tacloban in October 2017, the Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services (IDEALS Inc.) held…
The Land Where Not All Have Returned
When the waves started crashing during the early hours of 8 November 2013, Sammy Quino witnessed his beloved City of Tacloban being engulfed by the storm surges that wrought havoc…
Surging Together in the Philippines
On Call is a shared roster platform made up of members from INGOs, NGOs, the private sector and professional organisations. It serves as a directory of humanitarians who can be…
Business Continuity Planning in Action – Tacloban City
In June 2017, I visited Tacloban, a city in Leyte Province, eastern Philippines, to participate in the final Business Continuity Planning (BCP) programme training sessions and to orient the new…
Survivor and Community Led Response in the Philippines
The support for Ecoweb of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy is continuing, this time, led by the Philippines Centre. Ecoweb has applied Survivor and Community Led Response (SCLR) with support from…
