Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Measures

Recognition of different actors

Decentralization: Development of Local Structures

Composition of the LDRRMC (Sec. 11.a)

Governor/ MayorChair

DRRM Officer

HealthOfficer

Engineering

Officer

Agriculture

Officer

BudgetOfficer

Veterinary

Officer

Private Sector

AFPPNPABC PNRC

CSO CSO CSO CSO

Planning & Dev’t Officer

Social Welfare &

Dev’t Officer

Superintendent of Schools

Bureau of Fire Protecti

on

Gender & Dev’t Officer

Members LDRRMO (Sec. 12)

DRRM Officer

Administrative &

Training

Operations &

Warning

Research &

Planning

Local governments have the capacity to declare a state of calamity

Risk Assessment:

Identifying and Organizing the Most Vulnerable sectors

Targeting the women, children and elderly; hazard-prone communities; discriminated people; informal settlers; mining affected communities; remote small islands

Risk Assessment:

Addressing Uncertainty in Assessing Risks

Valuing community knowledge through Participatory

Capacities and Vulnerability Assessment (PCVA)

Engagement with Scientists to identify emerging and

imminent hazards

Dialogues to surface sectoral and gender-based knowledge

Risk Reduction:

Building Capacity

Para-legal Training Enterprise and employable skills training

Psycho-Social Support DRR & PCVA

Risk Assessment:

Installing Early Warning Systems

Linking Upland and lowland communities to provide EARLY warning

Community-based

Monitoring

Community-based Communication Systems

Risk Reduction:

Introducing Redundancy

Communication Systems

Community-Based Response capacities

Response Diversity

Repetitive Emergency drills

Risk Reduction:

Protecting the Environment

Solid Waste management Beach Clean-ups

Sandbagging Reforestation

Risk Reduction:

Building Safe SettlementsStabilizing

slopes

Building safe housing, foot paths, evacuation centers

Self-help and Retrofitting Training

Risk Reduction:

Generating Disaster-Resilient /Climate-Smart Livelihoods

Seaweed-based Compost

Flood-Resistant Crops/ Diversified Crops

Alternative Agricultural practices

Risk Reduction:

Diversifying Livelihoods

Diverse Livelihoods

Associative Livelihoods using Value Chain Analysis

Risk Reduction:

Ensuring Food Security

Urban container and Community Gardens

Sustainable Agriculture/ Sloping Agriculture Land Technology

Mobile Gardens

Risk Reduction:

Ensuring Access to Safe Water

Water filtration

Community-Based water System

Rainwater Catchment

Risk Reduction:

Rekindling the Values of Saving and Stockpiling

Seedbanking and Nursery

Food processing and Packaging

Microfinancing

Governance:Influencing multi-level Governance Systems

Mainstreaming in Barangay Development Plans

Linking local and National Policy Lobbying

Leveraging and Use of Calamity Funds for DRR

Campaigning

Disaster Preparedness:

Preparing for Disasters

Provision of life saving equipment and training

Contingency Planning

Responding to Disasters

Emergency Relief based on

international standards

Pre-positioning Response capacity through CA Rapid Response and

Assessment Team (CARRAT)

Knowledge Management:

Managing Knowledge

Awareness Building Activities

Networking/GIS Consortium Building

Visible Hazard Maps

Documentation, production and dissemination of knowledge

products

Knowledge Management:

Investing on Learning

Cross partner visits

Cross Partner and Community-based Learning Circles

Work in diverse ecosystems

Strategies

1. Advocacy and Information, Education and Communication (IEC)

Mobilize and harness the print and broadcast media to regularly communicate, warn and educate people nationwide about DRRM. Evidence-based advocacy is key for effective information sharing and making people understand DRRM.

2. Competency-based capability building

Customized training programs should be developed to ensure that people are trained based on the needed skills in the different DRRM aspects.

3. Contingency Planning More commonly used before as only part of disaster preparedness activities, contingency planning is now a living document which is updated and used in all the different aspects of DRRM

4. Education on DRRM and CCA for ALL

education through the integration of DRR concepts in the curriculum (i.e., basic education, NSTP, bachelors’ degree) and for the public sector employees

5. Institutionalization of DRRMCs and LDRRMOs

6. Mainstreaming of DRR in ALL plans

In all 4 aspects, we need to ensure that DRRM (and CCA) is mainstreamed in the various programs, plans, projects of either national or local government units, including the private sector groups and other members of the community.

7. Research, Technology Development and Knowledge Management

With the changes in the climate and technological advances, we need research to help us innovate, adapt and maximize the use of our resources to help our people reduce and manage the risks to disasters. This also include database development and the documentation, replication and recognition of good practices

8. Monitoring, evaluation and learning

Feedback mechanisms are important aspects of gauging performance targets and learning from our experiences on the ground

9. Networking and partnership building between and among stakeholders, media and tiers of overnment