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PROGRAM BRIEFER | Enhancing LGU Capacity on Disaster Risks
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and Management and Climate Change Adaptation The Department of
the Interior and Local Government (DILG) takes an active role in
Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction
Management (DRRM). This is our mandate per RA 9729 (Climate Change
Act) and RA 10121 (DRRM Act) to provide for capacity development
programs for CCA and disaster preparedness. Our efforts lean
towards enhancing the capacity of Local Government Units (LGUs) to
be at the forefront of the government’s initiative to adapt,
mitigate and prepare for climate change and disasters. The
Department has a three-component framework to achieve CCA and DRRM
compliant LGUs leading to more resilient and safe communities. The
cycle framework includes assessment, capacity enhancement and
enabling access to financing to achieve adaptive and disaster
resilient LGUs.
Figure 1. DILG CCA-DRRM Intervention Framework
The component on assessment tells us whether or not our LGUs are
institutionally prepared, what are gaps into becoming resilient.
Meanwhile, capacity enhancement aims to share knowledge, promote
tools and methodologies in mainstreaming to CLUPs and CDPs, and
develop capabilities of LGUs and communities to be safe and
resilient. Finally, the component on enabling access to financing
shall provide avenues for resource generation and project
development for the various CCA-DRRM initiatives to
materialize.
The DILG has refocused its targets from the 27 vulnerable
provinces to the contiguous local government units (LGUs) in the
periphery of the 18 major river basins (MRB) in the country
consisting of 47 Provinces. We invite convergence to focus efforts
on the targets so we can have harmonized efforts and ladderized
initiatives for more effective results.
Republic of the Philippines
Department of the Interior and Local Government
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The 18 MRBs per the River Basin Control Office (RBCO) of the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) are:
1. Cagayan River Basin
2. Mindanao River Basin
3. Agusan River Basin
4. Pampanga River Basin
5. Agno River Basin
6. Abra River Basin
7. Pasig-Laguna de Bay
8. Bicol River Basin
9. Abulug River Basin
10. Tagum River Basin
11. Ilog-Hilabangan
12. Panay River Basin
13. Tagoloan River Basin
14. Agus River Basins
15. Davao River Basin
16. Cagayan de Oro River Basin
17. Jalaur River Basin
18. Buayan-Malungun
The five (5) point strategy of the Department to achieve
disaster resilient and climate adaptive LGUs are:
1. Strengthening of Institutional Capacity for Disaster
Preparedness 2. Integration of Disaster Risk Management in Local
Government Systems and Processes 3. Enhancing Compliance and
Enforcement Systems to Policies impacting on Disaster Risk
Management 4. Facilitating Access to Financing 5.
Institutionalize Information, Education and Communication
Systems
The activities of the DILG for the LGUs in the 18 major river
basins are as follows:
Figure 2. DILG DRRM-CCA Activities
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Our goal is to strengthen the capacities of LGUs to: 1. Reduce
risks of disaster and mitigate adverse impacts of disasters 2.
Increase resiliency of communities to reduce risk 3. Manage the
consequences of disasters and the phenomenon associate with
climate
change And to achieve the goal, the Department shall strive to
be giving the total DRRM-CCA LGU package comprising of:
1. Diagnostics to [scientifically] assess their risk 2. Planning
guidance in mainstreaming DRRM and CCA in their local plans 3.
Equipage support 4. Enhancing community-preparedness
With this package and the strategies, we shall hope to
strengthen LGUs to: 1) increase community resiliency, 2) reduce
risk, 3) manage consequences of disasters and climate change and 4)
have 0 or no casualties.