Lessons from Community-Led Actions for Strengthening Disaster Resilience: A Case from the Philippines

The case study demonstrates how women’s groups in communities acutely vulnerable to disasters effectively led disaster risk assessment and priority setting to build a deeper understanding of disaster resilience and priorities among local communities and with the local government. The project is one of a number of similar pilot programs recently funded in Southeast Asia by the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Integrated Disaster Risk Management Fund and executed by civil society organizations.