Sector Disaster Management Planning Project Type Development Study Project Title Earthquake Impact Reduction Study Location Metropolitan Manila, Philippines Client Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology / JICA Project Period August 2002 – March 2004 Problems addressed by the Project Metropolitan Manila, composed of 13 cities and 4 municipalities by administrative boundaries, is the political, economic, and cultural center of the Philippines. With approximately 10 million people, it is one of the densely populated cities in Southeast Asia. Since the city is located on Luzon Island on top of many active faults, and in lowland area, the rapid growth of population and urbanization in recent decades raises the critical issue of high vulnerability of the area to earthquakes and subsequent tsunami and liquefaction. Many recent studies based on past earthquake records indicate that the active phase of Marikina Fault is approaching, and the estimated magnitude would be more than 7. Due to the existence of many clusters of ultra-high density areas, mix of inappropriate land uses, and concentration of housing in poor condition, there is an urgent need for countermeasures to reduce the city’s vulnerability to earthquake disaster. Hence, the Government of the Republic of the Philippines requested to the Government of Japan to formulate a master plan for earthquake disaster mitigation. Service Provided OC Global set two basic objectives in approaching the goal of this study: formulation of earthquake impact reduction plan, and sustainable capacity building for earthquake disaster related institutional and community organizations. OC Global adopted the following approaches and techniques to achieve the objectives: Damage analysis by seismic micro-zonation methodology Application of GIS to establish basic database for Metropolitan Manila Application of existing study and research achievements Strengthening the vertical and horizontal synergistic inter-agency networks of governmental and non-governmental disaster management related sectors Formulation of practical community-based disaster management plan Technology transfer of planning methodology for disaster management and information technology Social and anthropological analysis In addition, OC Global developed a website for the purpose of publicizing the study outcomes, approaches, methodology and activities so that this project could help promoting sustainable disaster management related sectors in Philippines. Project Recommendations In formulating disaster management plan based on a comprehensive data and micro-zonation technique, OC Global placed importance on the promotion of sustainable effort to deal with disasters by disaster management related organizations in Philippines with structural integration and systemic cohesion. By involving top-down structural organizations (such as Office of the President, the central government, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, local government and community organizations, and also related governmental organizations and divisions, NGO and research institutions as horizontal networks), the disaster management plan achieved the best balance among emergency response, disaster mitigation and preparedness. In addition, OC Global prepared a community-based disaster management plan since continuous and self-expandable disaster management activities are helped by raising public awareness and community-level disaster response capability.

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Page 1: Problems addressed by the Project Service Provided Title Earthquake Impact Reduction Study Location Metropolitan Manila, Philippines Client Metropolitan Manila Development Authority,

Sector Disaster Management Planning

Project Type Development Study

Project Title Earthquake Impact Reduction Study

Location Metropolitan Manila, Philippines

Client Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology / JICA

Project Period August 2002 – March 2004

Problems addressed by the Project

Metropolitan Manila, composed of 13 cities and 4 municipalities by administrative boundaries, is the political, economic, and cultural center of the Philippines. With approximately 10 million people, it is one of the densely populated cities in Southeast Asia. Since the city is located on Luzon Island on top of many active faults, and in lowland area, the rapid growth of population and urbanization in recent decades raises the critical issue of high vulnerability of the area to earthquakes and subsequent tsunami and liquefaction. Many recent studies based on past earthquake records indicate that the active phase of Marikina Fault is approaching, and the estimated magnitude would be more than 7. Due to the existence of many clusters of ultra-high density areas, mix of inappropriate land uses, and concentration of housing in poor condition, there is an urgent need for countermeasures to reduce the city’s vulnerability to earthquake disaster. Hence, the Government of the Republic of the Philippines requested to the Government of Japan to formulate a master plan for earthquake disaster mitigation.

Service Provided

OC Global set two basic objectives in approaching the goal of this study: formulation of earthquake impact reduction plan, and sustainable capacity building for earthquake disaster related institutional and community organizations. OC Global adopted the following approaches and techniques to achieve the objectives:

Damage analysis by seismic micro-zonation methodology Application of GIS to establish basic database for Metropolitan Manila Application of existing study and research achievements Strengthening the vertical and horizontal synergistic inter-agency networks of governmental and

non-governmental disaster management related sectors Formulation of practical community-based disaster management plan Technology transfer of planning methodology for disaster management and information technology Social and anthropological analysis

In addition, OC Global developed a website for the purpose of publicizing the study outcomes, approaches, methodology and activities so that this project could help promoting sustainable disaster management related sectors in Philippines.

Project Recommendations

In formulating disaster management plan based on a comprehensive data and micro-zonation technique, OC Global placed importance on the promotion of sustainable effort to deal with disasters by disaster management related organizations in Philippines with structural integration and systemic cohesion. By involving top-down structural organizations (such as Office of the President, the central government, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, local government and community organizations, and also related governmental organizations and divisions, NGO and research institutions as horizontal networks), the disaster management plan achieved the best balance among emergency response, disaster mitigation and preparedness.

In addition, OC Global prepared a community-based disaster management plan since continuous and self-expandable disaster management activities are helped by raising public awareness and community-level disaster response capability.