Good day! The UP Resilience Institute (UP RI) <https://resilience.up.edu.ph/> was formed to scale up and transform the previous multidisciplinary initiatives in DRRM by UP and its national and regional partners into interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research or creative work, extension service, and training, both for added capacity building within UP and capacity building within the larger society. The UP NOAH Center <http://center.noah.up.edu.ph/>, as a core component of the UP RI, was established in the University of the Philippines to conduct research, development and extension services on natural hazards, disaster risk reduction and climate change actions. The core of UP NOAH’s work is producing freely accessible, accurate, reliable, and relevant scientific disaster data.
The UP Resilient Campuses Project by the UP RI aims to create disaster management contingency plans to address the UP campuses’ vulnerability to natural hazards. It intends to take off from previous and existing plans and improve them by using the latest technology and the best methodologies to develop better strategies specific to the higher education units of the University of the Philippines campuses. This new and improved plan will cover the entire scope disaster risk management, from the identification of the risks all the way to recovering from disasters. It also aims to develop strategies to become resilient against the adverse impacts of geological and climate related natural hazards. With this in mind, we would like to ask for assistance from OpenStreetMap-Philippines to map the various communities in the various UP campuses using OpenStreetMap (OSM). As such, it is helpful in identifying points of interest, critical facilities (e.g. health centers, schools, town halls), buildings, and other infrastructures in the community that help identify areas vulnerable to disasters using risk and exposure details (number of affected houses, commercial buildings, evacuation centers). The task numbers are as follows: UP Diliman 3436 UP Manila School of Health Sciences, Aurora 3794 UP Diliman Extension Program in Pampanga 3434 UP Baguio 3435 UP Bonifacio Global City 3437 UP Manila 3438 UP Los Baños 3457 UP Open University – Headquarters 3790 UP Visayas, Miag-ao 3470 UP Visayas, Iloilo City 3460 UP Cebu 3461 UP Cebu South Road Properties (Professional Schools) 3469 UP Visayas, Tacloban College 3471 UP Manila School of Health Sciences, Leyte 3472 UP Mindanao 3791 UP Manila School of Health Sciences, South Cotabato 3792 UP Alabang 3793 We would also be happy to provide training to those who are willing to help in this effort to achieve this goal of disaster-resilient UP campuses. Please e-mail us if you have any other questions regarding the project. Thank you. Sincerely, *Dinnah Feye H. Andal* Senior Science Research Specialist UP NOAH
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