This report presents a slightly edited transcript of a workshop on the subject of “Grassroots community resilience and disasters”, which was held on October 14, 2019, during the seventh Asia Pacific Urban Forum (APUF-7), in Penang, Malaysia. The workshop was organized by ACHR, in collaboration with three other grassroots networks: the Huairou Commission, Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) and Slum Dwellers International (SDI).

These are Tom's notes from a field visit to volcano and typhoon-affected communities in Bicol Region, on the northern side of Luzon Island in the Philippines, in March 2012. The trip was one several organized to visit the Homeless People's Federation's work and ACCA projects in different parts of the Philippines, during the UPCA Launch, hosted by the HPFP in the Philippines, in March 2012.

This is a report of a three-day workshop (and field visits) that ACHR organized in Jogjakarta in January 2012. The 70 local participants (including community architects and community representatives from disaster-hit communities) and 25 international participants from Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Japan, and the Philippines had in-depth exchanges on their experiences of coping with disasters: preparing for future disasters and rebuilding after disasters that have already happened. Local communities affected by the eruption of Mt Merapi in 2010 served as case study sites for local field visits in Jogjakarta.

This report presents an edited transcript of the lively discussion which took place during a networking event (titled "Communities as key actors in disaster rehabilitation") organized by ACHR during the Fourth World Urban Forum in Nanjing China, in November 2008. ACHR's team at WUF4 included groups of disaster survivors from poor communities in 11 Asian countries.

Notes from the people-to-people exchange trip in July 2007, in which a group of Asian tsunami community leaders visited New Orleans & Gulf Coast communities hit by Hurricane Katrina. This trip was part of the ACHR-NESRI Tsunami-Katrina Exchange Program.