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Policy Brief Issue 3 September 2018

Restoring Access and Ensuring Quality, Inclusive, Equitable and Safe Learning Environment for Disaster-Prone Schools in the Visayas

The Philippines is among the world’s most disaster-prone country because of its location along the path of typhoons and monsoons and being in the Pacific Ring of Fire. It was fourth in the world among countries hit by the highest number of disasters over the past 20 years, according to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. In the country, the Visayas, especially areas in Eastern Visayas are the areas highly at risk to the occurrence of tropical depressions, tropical storms, typhoons and super typhoons according to the Center for Environmental Geomatics’ Mapping Philippine Vulnerability to Environmental Disasters.