The Philippine Resilience Awards (PRA) is a recognition program that seeks to honor champions of resilience who made significant contributions to climate action and disaster risk reduction in their respective communities.

This pioneering initiative would not be possible without the active support and participation of its implementing partners: the Office of Senator Loren Legarda (OSL), Climate Change Commission (CCC), Philippine Commission on Women (PCW), National Resilience Council (NRC), SM Prime Holdings, Inc., Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies  (ARISE) Philippines, and Women’s International Network on Disaster Risk Reduction (WINDRR) Philippines.

The Philippines consistently ranks as one of the countries with the highest disaster risk globally. In the 2024 World Risk Report, the Philippines was ranked first with a disaster risk index (WRI) of 46.91. The country is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels and increased frequency and intensity of typhoons and extreme weather events. Women and youth are a vulnerable population within a vulnerable population. While they often face unique challenges in the context of climate change, they also contribute to building a safer and resilient future.

The PRA was first launched in 2023 to recognize women for their initiatives and leadership for climate and disaster resilience. On its third run, the PRA 2025 reaffirms its commitment to making a contribution to building a safer, more sustainable future for the Philippines, driven by the collective resilience, dedication, and innovation of its people. Under the theme, “Kabataan at Kababaihan: Katuwang sa Paghahabi ng Isang Matatag na Bayan”, the PRA will recognize 5 nominees  for Women Category and 5 for Youth Category.

Awardees shall receive a cash prize, trophy, and Medallion of Excellence. They will also be conferred the title, “Resilience Champions” and form part of a climate and disaster resilience advocates sharing their initiatives and best practices through learning activities and forums.

Data Privacy and Confidentiality 

The OSL, CCC, PCW, NRC, SM Prime Holdings, Inc., ARISE Philippines, and WINDRR Philippines are jointly committed to protecting and upholding the confidentiality of all information that will be provided in this nomination form. This PRA Nomination Form, including all data gathered and/or supporting documents obtained, are strictly confidential and intended solely for the official use of the program implementing partners. 

Through completing and submitting this form, I willingly provide my informed consent to the program’s collection, recording, processing, and use of personal information gathered during my participation in the PRA. I am aware that I have the option to withdraw this authorization at any time by notifying the PRA Secretariat in writing. 

The program implementing partners are committed to safeguarding the sensitive personal information I provided, respecting my privacy, and maintaining confidentiality in accordance with the Data Privacy Act of 2012.

Please take note of the eligibility criteria below. All nominees must satisfy the following criteria:

• Must be between 15 to 30 years old as of nomination.
• Must be a Filipino citizen. 
• Must have a demonstrated track record in inclusive climate and disaster resilience and development work. 
• Must have initiated programs and projects for climate resilience and disaster risk reduction implemented for at least one year before nomination. 
• Must have demonstrated leadership skills and innovation that brought positive resilience outcomes in the community.
• Must exhibit good moral character and not have been adjudged guilty in any criminal, civil, or administrative case.
• Must not be a previous recipient of the Philippine Resilience Awards.

Individuals who are currently employed in the organizations that are part of the Awards Consortium are not eligible for the awards.

If you meet all requirements, please proceed with filling-out this nomination form.

Please supply the necessary information about the person you are nominating below 

Required Documents Submitted with this Nomination Form

Important Notes on Clearances: 

• If clearances have already been obtained previously, the same may be submitted to the Awards Secretariat, provided that the previous clearances are still valid on the date of the submission. 
• Provide Case Details, if applicable: 
  1. If the nominee has been charged or has a pending case (civil, criminal, or administrative) before any tribunal, submit a short report about the case details which should include the following information:
     1. Type of case (civil, criminal, or administrative)
     2. Case number
     3. Nature of charge or information (alleged violation)
     4. Date the charge or information was filed
     5. Venue of the charge or information
     6. Circumstances surrounding the case
     7. Status of the case (dismissed, pending, ongoing, settled, etc.)
     8. Include a report even if the case has been dismissed or amicably settled.

Please write a short recommendation letter (limited to 800 words only) to explain why your nominee should win the PRA, covering the following:

1. Program or project that your nominee initiated and which led to contributing to the reduction of climate and disaster risks in their locality or community
2. Highlights of body of work in resilience building, including:
   1. His/her personal vision of a resilient community;
   2. Significant track record in inclusive climate and disaster risk and resilience and development work;
   3. His/her contribution to gender-responsive climate action and socially inclusive disaster risk reduction; 
   4. How he/she champions the role of women in climate and disaster risk reduction as a key enabler of community resilience
   5. How he/she integrated GESI into his/her climate change and disaster risk reduction strategies and ensured effective and equitable outcomes benefitting all particularly women, youth, and other vulnerable groups such as indigenous peoples, elderly and persons with disabilities.
   6. Multi-stakeholder engagement to co-create an environment for synergies among different stakeholders that are individually and collectively committed to collaborative work and the achievement of a common vision of resilience, social innovations, and new institutional arrangements for risk and resilience governance (please specify partners from the government, private sector, academe, and civil society); and
   7. Leadership skills and innovation that brought positive resilience outcomes in the community

The PRA recognizes that there are 5 capacities essential for climate and disaster resilience: preventive, anticipative, absorptive, adaptive, and transformative. This is based on a meta-analysis unpacked by Manyena et al (2019), wherein he identified the said key capacities required to deal with climate and disaster risks in order to achieve resilience outcomes. In the pre-selection and validation phase, a committee will assess how the nominee initiated and implemented these capacities in their chosen risk and resilience intervention to achieve resilient development outcomes. Additionally, the assessing body will look on how she integrated GESI into her climate change and disaster risk reduction strategies and ensured effective and equitable outcomes benefitting all particularly women, youth, and other vulnerable groups such as indigenous peoples, elderly and persons with disabilities

In this section, nominees with the support of their nominators will provide information about the nominee's program or project on climate and disaster risk reduction and how the various resilience capacities were practiced and implemented in their program/project.

You may access the Nominees Accomplishment Report here:

https://tinyurl.com/NomineesAccomplishmentReport

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Review the following resilience capacities and determine which is being practiced and implemented in the nominee’s chosen risk and resilience program/project. Check all that apply and briefly provide information on how the nominee implements these capacities. 

Preventive and Mitigation Capacity 

Does the nominee implement in his/her program preventive and mitigation strategies or measures aimed at AVOIDING OR REDUCING existing or emerging disaster risks? Examples of initiatives:

• Early warning systems (EWS)
• Measures to avoid unsustainable development in place and being implemented
• Gender-sensitive, risk-informed development and mitigation plans in place
• Policies for DRR such as those to reduce land degradation, landslides, fires, etc. are in place
• Development outcomes meet the community’s basic needs in terms of access to water, health and sanitation and access to basic education
• Put premium on: promoting meaningful, equal, gender-sensitive, and effective participation of women, girls, boys, and men of diverse gender identities, ages, abilities, and backgrounds in all phases of the program

Anticipative Capacity 

Does the nominee implement in his/her program proactive strategies and measures aimed at enabling actions in advance to reduce the risks and plan/s prepare for effective response. Examples of initiatives:

• Early warning systems (EWS) that are Context-specific and supported by institutional arrangements, including access to risk and early warning information
• Disaster preparedness and response plans which are widely disseminated and with stakeholders trained to respond  
• Delivering a more effective response to weather/climate shocks through disaster risk finance in the short -term and facilitating longer-term investments in increasing security, DRM and climate resilience 
• Risk transfer mechanisms, such as weather-based insurance in addition to traditional claimed-based for agricultural crops and livelihoods 
• Regularly tested and updated local emergency preparedness plans
• Access to disaster- risk finance for  disasters caused by extreme events
• Put premium on women-led activities addressing multi-hazard early systems and risk-informed development, and participating in anticipatory actions to proactively reduce risks

Absorptive Capacity 

Does the nominee implement in his/her program strategies or measures aimed at increasing capacity to absorb and minimize the impacts of disasters? Examples of initiatives: 

• Developing and implementing an Integrated Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Plan, enhancing early warning information and knowledge management systems 
• Establishing functional community safety nets for affected households
• Multi-Hazard Risk Analysis and Risk Analysis for disaster risk management and developing a  functional and responsive disaster risk management (DRM) structures and systems   
• Creating an Emergency Preparedness Plans that are regularly tested and updated, indicating safe evacuation routes, emergency shelters, communication procedures and stockpiles.
• Put premium on efforts to enhancing capacities for improved knowledge and collective action and increasing economic empowerment of women and other vulnerable groups for effective disaster preparedness, response and recovery to build back better and be more resilient to multiple risks

Adaptive Capacity 

Does the nominee implement in his/her program effective sustainable measures to COPE with the potential future damage to the environment and social-economic? Examples of initiatives:

• Diversification livelihoods, coping and self-organization to moderate future damages
• Developing effective sustainable measures in order to cope with projected and actual changes in the use of natural resources such as land, forest, water and ecosystems
• Promoting sustainable soil management practices
• Enhancing public  investment in social protection
• Diversification of off-farm incomes and livelihoods
• Access to finance, and critical utilities like electricity and water
• Diversifying and adopting climate resilient and sustainable livelihood strategies  
• Improving access to, control, ownership of and sustainable utilisation of assets at community and household levels 
• Enhancing health, nutrition and sanitation conditions
• Improve sustainable crop, livestock and agro-forestry production 
• Improving uptake of low-cost sustainable and productive water technologies
• Functional, stable, viable and inclusive markets diversified livelihoods 
• Improve social, agriculture and water service delivery
• Put premium on efforts  in increasing opportunities for women and other vulnerable groups resulting in increased income and access to services

Transformative Capacity 

Does the nominee implement in his/her program strategies or measures allowing different stakeholders including women, youth, older persons, migrants, Indigenous Peoples, and local communities to generate and engage in improving existing systems to address the root causes of risks beyond the business-as-usual? Examples of initiatives: 

• Measures that address the community’s fragility, governance, institutions, practices, structures and social relations that constrain people’s capabilities to make choices
• Measures that enable community organization to be able to assert their rights, such as addressing issues like  high corruption perception index, etc
• Improving stakeholder coordination, planning and management of resilience and disaster response that do not just lead to bouncing back, but bounce forward
• Creating an enabling environment for sustainable, equitable utilization and management of natural resources 
• Put premium on nominees’ role in enabling shifts in mindsets and gender norms, normalizing GESI in DRR and paving the way for transformative change

You may access the Nominee's Certification here:

https://tinyurl.com/NomineesCertificationPRA2025

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You may access the Nominator's Certification and Endorsement here:

https://tinyurl.com/NominatorCertificationPRA2025

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Please supply necessary information about the person submitting this nomination below:

Final Reminder Before Submission

Please take a moment to carefully review all the information you’ve provided in the form. Ensure that all required documents are complete and properly attached.

Once your submission is sent, further edits will no longer be allowed.

Double-check all details before proceeding.

Thank you for your participation in the 2025 Philippine Resilience Awards.

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