In the 2022 World Risk Index, the Philippines are ranked as first most disaster prone countries in the

world. Over the past decades, the Philippines has suffered from an uncountable number of deadly
typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruption and other natural disasters. This is due to its location along
the Pacific Ring of Fire, or typhoon belt, which is a wide pacific ocean region where most of earth’s
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.

One of the disasters that have taken place in the Philippines in the past five years is Earthquake in
Bohol, a magnitude of 7.2 jolted Central Visayas, with the epicenter at Sagbayan, Bohol. It was the
catastrophe that we could hardly forget. According to the CNN Philippines, complete of 222
individuals had been recorded dead, 976 injured people, church buildings and different
infrastructures collapsed. Only a few great cases led by means of the neighborhood disaster
committees were able to go beyond their limited resources and muster the heroic volunteerism of
people. The bad economic condition only aggravates their state of affairs in the course of disasters.
We cannot prevent natural earthquakes from occurring but we can significantly mitigate their effects
by providing education on earthquake safety and many more.

Volcanic eruption is also one of the disaster that has the biggest impact to the livelihoods among the
people who are living near the coverage area, which can cause the lose of human lives and also the
destruction of infrastructure, disruption of supply chains, and job losses can all contribute to
decreased economic growth and productivity. The Taal Volcano is a smaller volcano island in
Batangas, CALABARZON (Region IV-A), about 50 kilometers south of the country's capital Manila. The
Taal Volcano last erupted in early January 2020, affecting over 736,000 people in CALABARZON
(Region IV-A), Central Luzon (Region III), and the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing more than
135,000 people to evacuate.

Before the volcanic eruption happens the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)
assured the public of its readiness to assist local government units (LGUs) affected by the eruption of
the Taal Volcano, adding that it has enough resources to support disaster operations in the province
of Batangas and neighboring areas.After Taal Volcano’s eruption on Sunday, major government
agencies such as the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC),
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and DSWD rushed to affected areas to provide
support.

One of the most frequent disaster that the Philippines experience each year is a typhoon, which
occurs at least 20 times a year, along with it the storm surge and flash floods. Extreme hydrological
events affect billions of people worldwide, and their negative impacts will likely increase due to
climate change, urbanization and ageing infrastructure. In the last decades, the strength of climate
change has been evident across the globe in many weather and climate extremes occurrences,
including heatwaves and droughts. Those events are involved in all fire stages and influence all
aspects of the fire occurrence.

The poor are the most vulnerable sector when calamities strike, making it crucial to tackle poverty in
disaster management. There will be something the government and the community could have done
to avert such disaster, it should adopt risk reduction measures which are community-specific and
enhance the existing coping mechanisms and capacities within the community. It’s effort should
strengthen the people's organization at the grassroots level and provide positive conditions for the
poorest of the poor to be organized as disaster committees on the level of their communities.