Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP)

As CDP is gearing for its silver anniversary (25 years) by the year 2024, it will come out with a coffee table book that will narrate the history of the organization’s journey with partner communities and vulnerable sections of the population for safe, resilience, and just society. CDP remains at the forefront as a resource center in community-based climate & disaster risk reduction and management (CB CDRRM). From its early beginnings , as the Disaster Resource Training Center carved out of the Training and Education Desk of the Citizens’ Disaster Response Center, CDP was registered as an independent institution with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission on the 4th of January, 1999. The Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) is known in the Philippines and in the Asia-Pacific Region as one of the pioneers in the field of community-based disaster risk reduction and management (CBDRRM) and climate change adaptation (CCA). We work with NGO’s, people’s organizations, communities, and government agencies at all levels to enhance their capacities in disaster prevention and mitigation, preparedness, emergency response, and rehabilitation and recovery. We want to reach out to more communities and spread the message of resilience through capacity- development programs and projects in community-based climate and disaster risk reduction and management. We are raising funds & promoting awareness to instill culture of safety and disaster preparedness. Through advocacy in DRR policies, research, and implementation of activities in DRR, our team works with the same goals in mind: to help build safe, resilient, and developed communities - one barangay at a time. The incomes come from projects and consultancies from providing training, manual development, evaluation, and research. Two years ago, CDP ventured into grant-making to support our partner people’s organizations in their innovative solutions to disaster risk reduction and management concerns at the local level.