Validates the completion report’s assessment of the program which aims to consolidate the power sector restructuring process in the Philippines. IED overall assessment: Less than successful

Validates the completion report’s assessment of the project which aims to increase and sustain agricultural production and productivity in selected agrarian reform communities, improve access to potable water, improve access to infrastructure and sustain ownership and support services by local stakeholders in the Philippines. IED overall assessment: Successful

Validates the completion report’s assessment of the program which aims to promote policy reforms to improve air quality in Metro Manila through the abatement of the main mobile and stationary sources of air pollution. IED overall assessment: Less than successful

This working paper focuses on disaster risks connected to the phenomenon of climate change. It asserts that the confluence of three factors--rising exposure of populations, increasing vulnerabilities, and the changing nature of the hazards themsevles--are contributing to turn these hazards of nature into intense natural disasters.