This final report covers both Super Typhoon Goni and Typhoon Vamco in Northern Luzon emergency operations. On 26 November 2020, the Super Typhoon Goni Emergency Appeal was revised and renamed to...
A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the disaster On 6 October 2020, the central region of Viet Nam experienced prolonged, heavy rains that caused severe and widespread flooding and landslides in...
A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the disaster Typhoon Vamco, locally known as Ulysses, made landfall on 11 November 2020 in Patnanungan, Quezon south of the capital Manila. Maximum sustained...
February 28, 2022, VIRAC, CATANDUANES — The Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF), in partnership with Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, conducted training sessions on business continuity with...
VGP - The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the WorldShare organization signed a cooperation agreement to build 73 flood-resilient houses for poor households affected by storms in the...
How hundreds of millions of people are protected from natural hazard risks throughout Southeast Asia There are more than 655 million people living in Southeast Asia— one of the most disaster-prone...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Vietnam is one of the most hazard-prone countries in the Asia-Pacific Region. With an extensive coastline of 3,260 kilometers (km), 2025.67 miles (mi) the country is regularly...
A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the disaster 8 November 2020: a low pressure area east of Mindanao developed into a tropical depression named Vamco (Ulysses). 9 November 2020: Vamco (Ulysses)...
Authors: Andrea Ortiz Vargas and Zita Sebesvari 1. Event From the beginning of October to mid-November 2020, Central Viet Nam was hit by nine consecutive high magnitude storms and typhoons (DMPTC,...
(Manila, Philippines, 19 August 2021) On World Humanitarian Day, we remind the world that we are caught in a climate emergency; the pandemic did not slow down climate change. Time is already running...