This month marked the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the emergency operations center at the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF) in Clark, Pampanga. I can remember clearly the paradigm-shift which led us to create this center. From 2009 onwards, when PDRF was first established following Typhoon 'Ondoy' (international name: Ketsana), we had primarily focused on relief and recovery efforts after a natural disaster. But in 2013, when Supertyphoon 'Yolanda' (international name: Haiyan) hit the Philippines, we realized that we needed to shift gears and focus on disaster preparedness, prevention, and mitigation.

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