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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

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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