Tag: disaster risk reduction

ASEAN Youth Volunteers in the Phl for volunteer work on disaster risk reduction

(Eagle News) — Today, August 26, is the closing ceremony of the fourth installation of the regional youth program in the Philippines of the ASEAN Youth Volunteer Programme (AYVP) 2016. The AYVP is implemented by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (The National University of Malaysia-UKM). The AYVP Philippines 2016, with the theme, ‘The Development of ASEAN Youth DRR-Leaders through Volunteerism and Community Engagement’ is organized in collaboration with the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University […]

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Japanese NGO Supports Raising Awareness for DRR

Japanese Ambassador Kazuhide Ishikawa and Mr. Nobuyuki Nakaya, country representative of SEEDS Asia, a Japanese NGO, signed the grant contract for the “Project on raising awareness for disaster risk reduction by Mobile Knowledge Resource Center (MKRC)” at the Embassy of Japan onJanuary 20, 2015. The project, amounting to US$ 175,326 (approximately 7.7 million pesos), is funded through the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects, a small-grant funding program of Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). The […]

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