STRENGTHENING DISASTER RISK INSURANCE: Senate President Franklin M. Drilon shares his thoughts on disaster management at the High-Level Forum on Strengthening Disaster Risk Insurance in the Philippines, while Mr. Jerry Velasquez, Chief of Advocacy and Outreach, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Geneva and Senator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Committee on Climate Change, listen. The forum, which was held Tuesday morning at the Philippine Senate, was attended by experts on disaster risk insurance led by Rowan Douglas of the Willis Group and Ernst Rauch of Munich Re, members of the business sector, and other stakeholders to discuss how the government, private sector, and citizens can work together to build disaster resilience by protecting properties and the economy from disaster risks. (PRIB Photo by Cesar Tomambo/21 January 2014)