| ADB | Asian Development Bank |
| AADMER | ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response |
| ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| APTERR | ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve |
| CRED | Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters |
| DDPM | Thai Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation |
| DMH | Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology |
| DRM | Disaster risk management |
| DRR | Disaster risk reduction |
| EM-DAT | Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters' emergency events data base |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FCRI | Viet Nam Field Crops Research Institute |
| ha | Hectare |
| GDP | Gross domestic product |
| IPCC | International Panel on Climate Change |
| MoAC | Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives |
| MOALI | Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation |
| MADB | Myanmar Agricultural Development Bank |
| MARD | Viet Nam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development |
| MAPDRR | Myanmar Action Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction |
| NDRRMC | Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council |
| NLUA | Philippines National Land Use Act |
| PAGASA | Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration |
| PDNA | Post-Disaster Needs Assessment |
| RIMES | Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia |
| UN | United Nations |