The Department of Education, Division of Benguet led by Ms. Nerissa Barbosa, Project Development Officer II organized teachers training to capacitate the new and untrained School Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Coordinator. The Cordillera Disaster Response and...

“Pinadpadas nga nagit-ited ti DRR training iti community ngem saan nga natalmedan ti kasasaad ti ubbing, mas napabaknang daytoy base iti experience ti CCDRR nga ada pokus na ti ubbing, (DRR training is being conducted in the community but there is no inclusion of the...

Urgent Appeal: Support Communities Affected by Typhoon Ompong (Mangkhut) 19 September 2018 On Sept. 14, 2018, the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year struck Northern Luzon and left widespread destruction in its wake. Ompong (Mangkhut) was a category 5...

Typhoon Ompong: Impacts on Cordillera Region Situation Report #5 (as of 18 September 2018) Situation Overview On September 14, 2018, at about 1:00 AM, Typhoon Ompong (International Code Name Mangkhut) passed through the Cordillera Region. The typhoon brought heavy...

The Cordillera Disaster Response and Development Services humbly and urgently appeals for support for its emergency response activities. Urgent need are as follows: 1. Food such as rice, canned goods, legumes, cooking oil etc. 2. Non-food items (NFI) like mats,...

Barangay Alunogan is one of the eleven (11) barangays of Natonin in Mountain Province. Barangay Alunogan consist of 203 households and 384 families. The main source of living is traditional agriculture just like any other barangays in Natonin. Rice production is...

A Bookkeeping seminar was conducted in two communities of Abra namely Masablang, Licuan-Ba-ay and Binasaran, Malibcong which are program areas of CorDis RDS. On April 28-29 a two day activity was conducted in Masablang, Licuan Ba-ay and on May 1-2 the same activity...

Shortly after the start of a 20 week internship at CorDis RDS, Matthijs Boessenkool who studies Disaster Risk Management in the Netherlands joined the Abra team for an 11-day fieldtrip to the communities of Diangay, Baay-Licuan and Manapnap, Malibcong in Abra....

Gumatdang, Itogon, Benguet- As part of the Child-Centered Disaster Risk and Reduction project of the Cordillera Disaster Response and Development services (CorDis RDS), residents of Barangay Gumatdang seek to complete and rehabilitate a broken and irregular pathway in...

“It is the first time that training like this has been conducted in our place. Most training were conducted in the town proper (Poblacion) so we are very thankful you came” said Mr. Felix Cadangan, the chairman of the Binasaran Farmers and Community Organization...