{"id":6639,"date":"2015-12-05T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T06:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2015-12-05T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T06:23:13","slug":"philippines-praised-by-un-for-learning-the-hard-lessons-of-typhoon-haiyan-and-upgrading-their-disaster-response-efforts-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/05\/philippines-praised-by-un-for-learning-the-hard-lessons-of-typhoon-haiyan-and-upgrading-their-disaster-response-efforts-south-china-morning-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines praised by UN for learning the hard lessons of Typhoon Haiyan and upgrading their disaster response efforts &#124; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/1871642\/philippines-praised-un-learning-hard-lessons-typhoon-haiyan\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onthe8spot.com\/onthe8spot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tphke20151022242.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Aspi said it was clear the country had learned from the experience of Typhoon Haiyan.\u201cThere have been some great strides in disaster risk reduction since Haiyan, both from the government and from the NGOs. This is especially the case on the advocacy side &#8211; the children\u2019s emergency relief and protection act was passed this year and gives greater focus on the protection of children who are very vulnerable during times like these,\u201d he said.The Philippines government is reviewing its disaster risk reduction law to incorporate more recommendations made following Haiyan and other typhoons.\u201cThe real focus has been making sure communities are at the heart of this preparedness, that\u2019s the only way it can be successful,\u201d added Aspi. \u201cSo communities, including children, have been mapping out their areas and pointing out where is a safe place to go and where is not safe. And of course, there is always room for improvement on this, particularly in making sure plans are inclusive and include the knowledge of women as well as the elderly. But we\u2019re definitely making strides.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/1871642\/philippines-praised-un-learning-hard-lessons-typhoon-haiyan\">Philippines praised by UN for learning the hard lessons of Typhoon Haiyan and upgrading their disaster response efforts | South China Morning Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspi said it was clear the country had learned from the experience of Typhoon Haiyan.\u201cThere have been some great strides in disaster risk reduction since Haiyan, both from the government and from the NGOs. This is especially the case on the advocacy side &#8211; the children\u2019s emergency relief and protection act was passed this year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/05\/philippines-praised-by-un-for-learning-the-hard-lessons-of-typhoon-haiyan-and-upgrading-their-disaster-response-efforts-south-china-morning-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Philippines praised by UN for learning the hard lessons of Typhoon Haiyan and upgrading their disaster response efforts &#124; South China Morning Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}