Saving Lives, Protecting Communities: Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction in the Philippine Setting is a reference and guidebook in the conduct of the disaster readiness and risk reduction course for grades 11 and 12. This book will help the students understand the basic concepts and processes in disaster risk reduction and management develop competencies that will enable them to prepare for disasters, respond to disasters, and recover from disasters cultivate a power attitude and behavior that can sustain disaster risk reduction and come up with disaster risk reduction activities at home in school and in the community.