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The READY Project
Maria Leonila P. Bautista
Associate Scientist, DOST-PHIVOLCS
Team Manager, READY - PHIVOLCS
Science for Safer Communities*Hazards Mapping and Assessment for
Effective Community-Based Disaster Risk
Management
The READY* Project
MAIN IMPLEMENTOR:
National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC)
Thru a NDCC Preparedness Subcommittee Called (CSCAND)
EXECUTING AGENCY:
Office of Civil Defense (OCD)
CSCAND is a Subcommittee under the Preparedness
Committee of the National Disaster Coordinating
Council (NDCC) as per a NDCC Special Order issued
in 2003
OCD as Chairman of the Steering Committee
PHIVOLCS as Chairman of the Technical Working
Group
CSCAND Members are PAGASA, MGB, NAMRIA
CSCAND – started in 2003
CSCAN (Parent Project of CSCAND)
“Crustal Stress and Community Awareness Network”
2000
Crustal Stress and Community Awareness Network (CSCAN) -
2000• 10 crustal stress measurement
stations in Luzon
•Aims to detect possible changes in
crustal stress prior to earthquakes
• Community-based monitoring
• Volunteer observers trained to read
data and observe and report possible
changes
•Experimental and in the research
stage
In cooperation with the United Nations
Global Programme – United Nations
Development Programme (UNGP – UNDP) Drilling and inserting the crustal stress sensor
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CSCAN VIGAN2002
PAST CSCAND ACTIVITIES
Group Discussion with Municipal Planning Officers of 10 CSCAN sites
Movie/TV Plug about Earthquake Preparedness (with
UNDP, NDCC) (2002)
Setting Selected: Inside a Shopping Mall
Scenario: A typical weekend for a middle-income Filipino
family
Setting:
•Movie theatre
•Grocery
•Shopping
Shown in 200 theatres nationwide and in 2 TV channels
PAST CSCAND ACTIVITIES
CSCAND Initiatives: Tsunami Marker•To serve as a reminder of past tsunami in a certain place
•Could be placed in the area known to have been impacted by tsunami in the past
Unveiling of the 1st Tsunami
Marker in the Philippines - 2005
Unveiling of tsunami marker
Baler, Aurora, Philippines
January 27, 2005
Proposed tsunami marker designed
by PHIVOLCS, October 2004
CSCAND Activities: Earthquake Drills in Schools and Multi-Storey
Medium Rise Buildings (2004-2005)
Students do the “duck, cover and hold”
NHA Mandaluyong
TAAL SEMINAR 2005 SORSOGON CITY MULTI-HAZARD
WORKSHOP AND EARTHQUAKE
DRILL 2005
Focus Group Discussions among
community Members
Communities Offer Solutions to
Disaster-related issues
Informing LGUs and Teachers on
Natural Hazards
Teaching Teachers how to do the “Earthquake Drill”
After the 2004 typhoons and floods in the Real, Infanta
and Nakar areas in Quezon province:
PHIVOLCS, as a long time partner of UNDP through
CSCAND, was invited by UNDP to implement a project
called REINA Project
REINA components: Multi-hazards mapping, Community-
based early warning system,IEC
After the success of the REINA experience, the REINA
was upscaled to READY Project
The READY Project draws from the REINA experience
*Strengthening the Disaster Preparedness Capacities of the Municipalities of Real, Infanta and Nakar,
Quezon Province Philippines to Geologic and Meteorological Hazards”
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How were the READY Provinces selected?Which are the 27 provinces ?
Based on historical data
Based on current risk
Lacks hazard maps, early warning systems
2006 (Surigao del Sur/Surigao del Norte)
2007 (Leyte/Southern Leyte)
2008 (Bohol,Aurora,Cavite, Pampanga, Laguna)
2009 (N. Samar, E, Samar, Zambales,Iloilo, Antique)
(Rizal, Catanduanes) 2010
Legend:
READY Areas (2006 -2013)
2011-2013 (Agusan del Sur, Nueva Vizcaya, Cagayan, Isabela, Zamboanga Sibuguey,Ilocos Sur,Zambo del Sur, Abra, Quirino, Ilocos Norte, Benguet)
*Hazards Mapping and Assessment for
Effective Community-Based Disaster Risk
Management
Birth of the READY* Project
• Multi-agency participation (PHIVOLCS, PAGASA,
MGB,NAMRIA and OCD)
• Strong link with local government units (provincial to
barangay levels)
• Touch base with regional offices
• Memoranda of agreement (MOA), MOUs developed
at various stages of the project implementation
• Community-based
Implementation Strategies
• Effective and sustainable disaster risk mitigation
efforts in the community level must always have
LGU support to succeed.
• Local technical expertise exists in the field of
hazard mapping. It is best to tap local experts for
information, education and communication (IEC)
campaigns as they are more familiar with local
needs and can relate more with local people.
• It is important to tap NGO and regional
governmental support in ensuring sustainable
disaster risk mitigation efforts.
Lessons Learned
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READY Project Objective:
• To address the problem of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) at the local level
Key Problems:
Lack of appropriate hazards maps
Lack of community based hazard monitoring
and warning systems
Need to increase capabilities of communities in
implementing activities and measures for disaster
reduction such awareness and preparedness;
contingency and development planning
STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE OBJECTIVE
National Level: institutionalize and
standardize DRM measures and processes
Community Level: empower the most
vulnerable municipalities and cities in the
country
RESPONSIBLE CSCAND AGENCIES:
◦ Mines and Geosciences Bureau-
Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (MGB-DENR)
◦ National Mapping and Resource Information
Authority- Department of Environment and
Natural Resources
(NAMRIA-DENR)
◦ Philippine Institute of Volcanology
and Seismology-Department of Science and
Technology (PHIVOLCS-DOST)
◦ Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and
Astronomical Services Administration-
Department of Science and Technology (PAGASA-DOST)
Local Government Units (LGUs)
Smart Communications
COOPERATING PARTNERS:
Local READY Team:
Regional OCD (Head)
Local PHIVOLCS
Local PAGASA
Local MGB
People and support on the ground:
FUNDING SUPPORT:
United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
Australian Agency for International
Development (AusAID)
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1. Multi-hazard identification and assessment
2. Community-Based Disaster Preparedness
CBEWS* for Floods
CBEWS* for tsunami
IEC*Community-Based Early Warning System
3. Initiate the mainstreaming of risk reduction into
the local development planning process through the
provision and training on the use of REDAS software
READY PROJECT COMPONENTS:
1.Multi-hazard identification and assessment
• Mandated mapping agencies to map multi-hazards of a province
• Local experts to produce these maps
• Produces 8-9 hazard maps per province
STRATEGY:
READY Multi-Hazard Maps
Pyroclastic Flow and Lahar(Albay)
Ground Shaking (Cavite)
Tsunami Hazard (Cavite)
Rain-Induced Landslide (Bohol)Floods (Pampanga)
Storm Surge(Cavite)
What tells you that a hazard map is a READY Map?
Official Logos
2. Community-Based Disaster Preparedness:
Information,Education,Communication (IEC)
Strategy:
- Discuss results of multi-hazard maps with
community leaders (MDCCs and barangay
captains)
- Delineate barangay vis-a-vis all hazards
STRATEGY: Barangay leaders and Teacher-focused
IEC: aspiring for a domino-effect
•Teaching LGUs (barangay level) about the hazards and their hazard maps
•Teaching Teachers how to teach Hazards in their Localities
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READY IEC a) Development, production and distribution
of standardized IEC Materials
b) Standardized content, design, color, layouts
IEC STRATEGY:
2. Development of Community-Based Early Warning
System: using the REINA experience
•We decided which hazards are
more hazardous, being sudden
in their onsets and hence, lead
time for warning is short.
•We chose Flashfloods,
Landslides and Tsunamis
2. Community-Based Disaster Preparedness:
CBEWS for Floods and Flashfloods
Strategy:
- Basin river approach
- Put rain gauges at upper slopes,
flood marks at rivers
- Train volunteer observers
- Conduct flood drills
STRATEGY:
Recognition of threshold Rainfall reading
Trigger Communication Systems (cellphone, radios, batingaws, etc)
Checking flood marksEvacuation
Establishment of Community-Based Early Warning System (CBEWS) for Floods and Flashfloods
2. Community-Based Disaster Preparedness:
CBEWS for Tsunami
Strategy: Train LGUs how to develop tsunami CBEWS
a) Select two pilot communities to serve as
pilot sites for replication
b) Install tsunami signages in pilot sites
c) Conduct tsunami drills for pilot sites
STRATEGY:
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Southern Leyte Tsunami Drills
Participants walking towards the evacuation site
At the evacuation site
Tsunami IEC campaign in Barangay San Pedro, Duero, Bohol
Tsunami Drill in the Municipality of General Luna, Siargao Island, Surigao Del Norte on 08 December 2006
Tsunami Drill. Surigao del Sur, 2006
On-site Tsunami CBEWS Assessment
General Luna, Surigao del Norte
Component 3. Initiation of mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction into the local development planning process through the provision and training on the use of REDAS software
STRATEGY:
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• REDAS (Rapid Earthquake DamageAssessment System) is a hazard simulation
software that aims to produce hazard and riskmaps immediately after the occurrence of astrong and potentially damaging earthquake.
• Developed by PHIVOLCS in 2002-2004 underthe DOST-GIA project
• For READY, we have incorporated the READYhazard maps into the REDAS software
Mainstreaming DRR into local development planning
process through the Provision and Training on the Use
REDAS Software
Lecture on map reading and on the various capabilities of REDAS (e.g. sorting, query, database building, etc)
REDAS Training
Target Officials: Planning Officers, DCC members
Training Community Officials How to Build their own Hazard and Risk Database
What challenges us -
Unmaintained/unkept systems
Damaged/unmaintained
rain gauges and tsunami
signages
ST. BERNARD, 2007Brgys. Himatagon, Malibago, Magbagacay,
Ayahag and Sug-angon
1st replication of READY Tsunami CBEWS
Funded by MDCC with support from ACCORD Project (CARE Netherlands), READY Project and Province of Southern Leyte
Organized by MDCC with ACCORD
Technical support by PHIVOLCS
What gives us more energy -
Tsunami Signage done by local people
Tsunami Warning Signage at
Barangay DumagokTsunami Evacuation Route at
Barangay Kawit
Malibago, St. Bernard Tsunami Drill
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REDAS comments“Thankstoyouallforhavingbroughtusthiswonderful and most useful tool for us who are in the frontlines of emergency and disaster response, keep up the good work, and may ourtribeincreaseathousandfold”
- Joemil Papa, Iloilo City Disaster Response Office
“hiposainyolahatngREDASResourcePersons and Facilitators,salamat po sa concern na pinakita nyo po sa amin..napakalaking bagay po sa amin ang REDAS. Salamat din po sa panahon na ibinigay nyo sa amin at katalinuhan at pagiging dalubhasa na hindi nyo po pinagakait sa amin, na inyong pinamahagi sa boong KABITE sa pamamagitan ng REDAS... Mabuhaypokayo...”ClydeYayong,Tagaytay City DCC
Presidential Management Staff
office
• A strategy of using multi-hazard approach and in
tapping expertise of multi-agencies are effective tools
in hazard mapping and for conducting public
education campaigns.
• An effective way to empower communities in disaster
risk mitigation is through the development of
sustainable community-based early warning systems
especially for sudden-onset natural hazards.
• Effective disaster risk mitigation efforts require
collective efforts of various agencies employing
multidisciplinary approaches.
So we go back to our Lessons Learned and try to
see where we are missing some points
• Effective and sustainable disaster risk mitigation
efforts in the community level must always have
LGU support to succeed.
• Local technical expertise exists in the field of
hazard mapping. It is best to tap local experts for
information, education and communication (IEC)
campaigns as they are more familiar with local
needs and can relate more with local people.
• It is important to tap NGO and regional
governmental support in ensuring sustainable
disaster risk mitigation efforts.
Lessons Learned
“Building a culture of prevention is not easy. While the costs of prevention have to be paid in the present, its benefits lie in a distant future.
Moreover, the benefits are not tangible; they are the disasters that did not happen”.
Kofi Annan, 1999
Secretary General, United Nations
Thank you for your attention !
Science for Safer Communities