The challenge to build genuine solutions to flood risk factors should not have been new to the administration of Rodrigo Duterte. These proposals were outlined already in the 2016 People’s Agenda for Nationalist and Progressive Change, a comprehensive 100-day agenda document hand-delivered to Duterte himself.
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‘Tamang Panahon’ not soon enough in Aquino’s aid to Yolanda survivors – People Surge
“Yolanda victims are still without aid, still living in bunkhouses, yet the government is prioritizing the building of tide embankments, and hotels.”
Disaster Philippines
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Nearly 2,500 people — 2,360 to be exact — died in 2012 in natural disasters in the Philippines, says the nongovernmental Citizens Disaster Response Center (CDRC), putting it ahead of all other countries in the world including China, which was second with 771 deaths. But because “only”…