Building Disaster Resilience of Manila Communities Building Resilience of Manila Communities to Natural Disaster and Climate Change Impacts (BRACE) contributes to lessening the vulnerability of urban poor to natural disaster through: Risk Analysis Project for GMMA; Community-Based Disaster Resik Management; Risk-Sensitive Land Use Planning; and safer settlements. Around 1,800 ISFs are targeted to have safer housing and 650,000 people will benefit from disaster preparedness training. BRACE intends to be a model of a good DRR to be implemented in Taguig as pilot area with technical assistance from Geoscience Australia and Red Cross.  The total value of this initiative is $27.2m over 6 years, starting 2009-10.