 the city’s lead agency in promoting disaster

resiliency brought about by both man-made

hazards or natural calamities. It aims to provide
swift and efficient disaster risk reduction
programs to foster public awareness and
promote preparedness through training and
information dissemination with staunch
participation from major stakeholders and
citizenry of Manila.
MISSION:
 To provide efficient, effective and responsive
disaster risk reduction program to promote disaster
awareness and preparedness through seminars,
trainings and workshops with strong participation of
the various stakeholders and community of Manila.
VISION:
 We shall be an effective and capable office working
together with other government agencies, private
entities and non-government organizations providing a
timely response and fast recovery from all hazard-
related emergencies and incidents towards a disaster
resilient city.
• Disaster Risk is the potential loss expressed in
lives, health status, livelihood, assets and
services which could occur in particular
community or society due to the impact of a
natural hazard.

• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a systematic

approach to identifying, assessing and
reducing that risk. Specifically, the purpose of
disaster risk reduction is to minimize
vulnerabilities and disasters risks throughout a
society in order to avoid or to mitigate and
prepare for the adverse impacts of natural
hazards and facilitate sustainable development.
• Prevention and Mitigation
✓ Using data from disaster risk assessments,
identify areas and groups of most vulnerable
children and women for targeted activities,
such as focused efforts on system building and
on community-based networks.
✓ Support inter-agency monitoring child
protection risks in relation to hazard risks to
inform programme strategies.
✓ Enhance capacity of communities and families
to care for their children and identify and
encourage existing positive coping
mechanisms.
• Preparedness
✓ Work with national partners to ensure
emergency preparedness plans for child
protection, including appropriate referral
services, are in place in all disaster-prone
areas.
✓ Establish permanent ‘safe spaces’ for women
and children in disasters-prone areas as part of
the community-based child protection network.
✓ Promote measures to safeguard identification
documents and teach life skills (e.g. first aid).
• Recovery, Rehabilitation and
Response
✓ Disseminate and ensure access to information
to the affected population including on
availability and locations of services, for
example, through mobile safe spaces.
✓ Mainstream child protection into other sectors’
response work to scale up protection
measures.
✓ Increase safety of camps and evacuation
centers through lighting and community warden
system.
✓ In the assessment phase and the
development of the DRRM plan, there should
be disaggregation of data according to age,
sex, ethnic group, abilities and geographical
location.
✓ Assessment, planning, implementation
and monitoring and evaluation of DRRM
programs should ensure that
marginalized groups receive the proper
support.
✓ The entire DRRM cycle should adopt
processes that will facilitate the
participation of children who are often
excluded or whose participation is hindered
by various factors, such as different
abilities or capacities, language or dialect,
economic status, geographic distance and
access to transportation, and social status.
✓ Assessment, planning, implementation and
monitoring and evaluation of DRRM
programs should ensure that marginalized
groups receive the proper support.
✓ They are vulnerable to the negative
effects of disaster and climate change,
and an improperly managed DRR/CCA
program.
✓ It is important to inculcate a culture of
safety and resilience at a very young
age.
✓ Children at risk for mental health issues
after a disaster.