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Risk Reduction and possibly moving forward, as a satellite accounts to provide
linkages in the SNA and the SEEA.
This paper aims to present the initial efforts of the Philippine Statistics
Authority (PSA) on developing the disaster related statistics for advancing the
expenditure accounts on disaster risk reduction (DRR). This will also discuss
some initial results of key indicators which can be integrated in the broader
framework of the Philippine Expenditure Accounts on Disaster Risk Reduction.

2. Philippine Efforts in Developing the Disaster Statistics for the
Expenditure Accounts for Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster is defined as a serious disruption of the functioning of a
community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with
conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to one or more of
the following: human, material, economic and environmental losses and
impacts. Disaster risk, on the other hand, is the potential loss of life, injury, or
destroyed or damaged assets which could occur to a system, society or a
community in a specific period of time, determined probabilistically as a
function of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity.” (United Nations
General Assembly 2015).
In most countries, the Sendai Framework serves as their focal point in
developing disaster statistics as initiated by the United Nations International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). The Sendai Framework describes
disaster risk reduction (DRR) as a scope of work aimed at preventing new
disaster risks as well as reducing existing disaster risks and managing residual
risk, all of which, contributes to strengthening resilience.
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific (UNESCAP) in May 2014 through the ESCAP Resolution
E/ESCAP/RES/70/2, saw the need of developing a Disaster Related Statistics
Framework (DRSF) in the region including the DRSF guidelines to assist
countries how to develop and implement disaster statistics. This initiative did
a pilot test of the framework in four (4) countries – Philippines, Bangladesh,
Fiji, and Indonesia. The framework identified, among others, the compilation
Disaster Risk Reduction Expenditure (DRRE) Accounts including the statistics
that supports the DRRE for better analysis of the occurrence of disaster that
would result in a more effective disaster reduction risk management.
Specifically, this will be useful in analyzing the impact of the economic policies
within the concern of the environment and disaster.
The pilot testing of the DRSF framework in the Philippines was
spearheaded by the Philippine Statistics Authority. Initial results showed that
available data on disaster statistics are not adequate to sufficiently support the
DSRF framework. However, the pilot testing was able to define the key issues
on addressing most of the data problems and to bring up those

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