Building Resilience to Climate Change

The United Nations 2009 Global Report on Disaster Risk Reduction ranked the Philippines as the third most-disaster-prone country globally, as witnessed during two typhoons in 2009 which caused $1 billion of infrastructure damage in Metro Manila and loss of life.

To assist the Government of Philippines, AusAID has established the project Building the Resilience and Awareness of Metro Manila Communities to Natural Disasters and Climate Change Impacts Program (BRACE).

LEI’s Philippines affiliate, Land Equity Technology Services (LETS), in partnership with a local urban planning and land use management firm – CONCEP, was recently awarded the AusAID Preparatory Phase Architectural and Engineering project for BRACE. This is a 12 month project based in Taguig City in Metro Manila. The preparatory phase project will prepare designs for housing for the poor who are located in disaster prone areas of the City; prepare a financing model to make the project sustainable, and prepare the land management component concerned with strengthening the City for better planning and use of land resources.

Our project strengths are founded on our experience improving land administration systems working previously with local government units in the Philippines, and developing innovative partnership arrangements with national agencies. We were also able to build capacity and design systems that led to vast enhancements in local government land information systems and GIS technology capability to support core functions of revenue generation, land use planning and now critical tasks of disaster risk management.

For more information contact: Ms Lulu Reyes, LETS General Manager.