ROAP/PHL Strengthening Institutions and Empowering Localities Against Disasters and Climate Change (SHIELD) Project

About this project

The Strengthening Institutions and Empowering Localities Against Disasters and Climate Change (SHIELD) is a six-year Australia-DFAT-funded program that aims to support the government of the Philippines in building institutional and community resilience to climate change and other types of hazards. The goal of the SHIELD Program is to make all people in target communities safer and more resilient to the impacts of natural hazard events and climate change. This will be realized by achieving three inter-dependent outcomes/components: • Component 1: Government, private sector, and civil society stakeholders in targeted local government units (LGUs) are collaborating to unlock funding and implementing informed and inclusive resilience actions • Component 2: Relevant national government agencies (NGAs) are prioritizing action on local climate and disaster resilience • Component 3: Philippine scientific agencies are producing tailored and accessible information for local resilience action In partnership with the Government of the Philippines, the SHIELD Project will be implemented by the UNDP, together with consortium partners, including UN-Habitat, Philippine Business for Social Progress, National Resilience Council, and the Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society. The Department of Interior and Local Government serves as the lead Government partner for the implementation of the SHIELD Program. The SHIELD Program’s Theory of Change (TOC) rests on a core premise that all people in t…

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UN-Habitat · Multilateral

Countries

Philippines

Sectors

Disaster prevention and preparedness

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UNDP-Philippines

Accountable

UN-Habitat

Published by UN-Habitat to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 13 Nov 2025 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: 41120-127319.

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