Partner success stories and use cases

Read about how our partners are utilizing PDC products and services to substantially reduce disaster risk, prevent the loss of life, and help improve lives and livelihoods for communities worldwide.

Partner success stories and use cases

Read about how our partners are utilizing PDC products and services to substantially reduce disaster risk, prevent the loss of life, and help improve lives and livelihoods for communities worldwide.

Partner success stories and use cases

Read about how our partners are utilizing PDC products and services to substantially reduce disaster risk, prevent the loss of life, and help improve lives and livelihoods for communities worldwide.

Partner success stories and use cases

Read about how our partners are utilizing PDC products and services to substantially reduce disaster risk, prevent the loss of life, and help improve lives and livelihoods for communities worldwide.

With more than half the world’s nations still lacking adequate early warning and risk monitoring systems, PDC is working with international, regional, and national partners to help bridge these critical gaps. Bringing risk and early warning information to the foreground of decision-making, our programs are helping countries to reach the targets of the UN’s Sendai disaster prevention framework and Sustainable Development Goals (2015–2030). Learn more below about how our partners are leveraging PDC’s robust DisasterAWARE decision support platform, risk analysis tools and information, and our global multi-hazard early warning capabilities. 
RECENT USE CASES
DisasterAWARE Highlights
Partners who have participated in PDC's advanced early warning capacity program report many successes in the operational use of DisasterAWARE for disaster response and planning. Learn more . . .
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AHA Centre aids response to Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar using DMRS—a custom version of DisasterAWARE
AHA Centre aids response to Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar using DMRS—a custom version of DisasterAWARE
On May 14, Cyclone Mocha intensified upon encountering warm waters in the Bay of Bengal, making landfall with brutal force in the coastal region of Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
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PhilAWARE Capacity Building Outcomes
Case Study: PhilAWARE capacity-building outcomes and effectiveness for multi-hazard situational awareness
Within the span of two weeks in February 2023, the Philippines experienced two catastrophic disasters that resulted in lost lives, shaken communities, and the destruction of precious marine ecosystems across the country.
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PhilAWARE Landslides
New early warning system aids rapid response to life-threatening landslides in Philippines
Four months after PhilAWARE was handed over to the Philippines Office of Civil Defense (OCD), the national early warning system was put to the test a second time—and passed.

Tropical Storm Agaton, known internationally as Megi, made landfall on April 10, 2022, leading to flash floods in low-lying areas and rain-induced landslides.
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PhilAWARE Typhoon Rai
PhilAWARE put to the test a week after hand over to the Philippine Government
On Dec. 15, 2021, Tropical Storm Rai strengthened into a Super Typhoon faster than any other storm system in recent memory, going from category 2 to category 5 on theSaffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale in a matter of hours. The storm made landfall on the southern islands of the Philippines with violent force, leading to the evacuation of more than 400,000 residents, injuring at least 500 people, and causing 375 deaths,
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DMRS
How hundreds of millions of people are protected from natural hazard risks throughout Southeast Asia
There are more than 655 million people living in Southeast Asia—one of the most disaster-prone regions of the world. Life within the region is becoming even more challenged by a notable increase in climate-driven disasters which include floods, landslides, wildfires, and super typhoons. Migration and displacement from these events further threaten peace, security, and safety for countries within Southeast Asia.
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InAWARE
In less than a month, Indonesia was hit with flash floods and a deadly earthquake—and InAWARE was there to help
Flooding and landslides in Luwu in early October 2021 were followed by a M4.8 earthquake in Bali less than two weeks later. For the national government of Indonesia, responding to complex and concurrent disasters such as this is not an uncommon scenario.
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