Disaster Risk

Reduction and
Management
Measures
Recognition of Different Actors
Decentralization:
Development of Local Structures
Composition of the LDRRMC (Sec. 11.a)
Governor/ Mayor
Chair

Members LDRRMO (Sec. 12)

DRRM Engineering Health DRRM Officer
Officer Officer Officer

ABC PNRC PNP AFP Administrative Research & Operations &

& Training Planning Warning
Gender & Superintend Planning & Bureau of
Dev’t ent of Dev’t Fire
Officer Schools Officer Protection

Agriculture Veterinary Budget Social Welfare

Officer Officer Officer & Dev’t Officer Local governments have
the capacity to declare a
CSO CSO CSO CSO Private Sector state of calamity
Risk Assessment:
Identifying and Organizing the Most Vulnerable
sectors

Targeting the women, children and elderly; hazard-prone communities;

discriminated people; informal settlers; mining affected communities; remote
small islands
Risk Assessment:
Addressing Uncertainty in Assessing Risks

Valuing community knowledge

through Participatory Dialogues to surface
Capacities and Vulnerability sectoral and gender-
Assessment (PCVA) based knowledge

Engagement with Scientists

to identify emerging and
imminent hazards
Risk Reduction:
Building Capacity

Enterprise and employable skills training

Para-legal Training

Psycho-Social Support
DRR & PCVA
Risk Reduction:
Installing Early Warning Systems

Linking Upland and

Community-
lowland communities to
based
provide EARLY warning
Monitoring

Community-based
Communication Systems
Risk Reduction:
Introducing Redundancy

Repetitive
Emergency drills
Communication
Systems

Community-Based
Response capacities Response
Diversity
Risk Reduction:
Protecting the Environment

Sandbagging Reforestation

Solid Waste management Beach Clean-ups

Risk Reduction:
Building Safe Settlements
Stabilizing
slopes

Building safe
housing, foot paths,
evacuation centers

Self-help and Retrofitting Training

Risk Reduction:
Generating Disaster-Resilient /
Climate-Smart Livelihoods

Flood-Resistant Crops/
Diversified Crops

Seaweed-based Compost Alternative Agricultural practices

Risk Reduction:
Diversifying Livelihoods

Diverse Livelihoods

Associative Livelihoods using

Value Chain Analysis
Risk Reduction:
Ensuring Food Security

Urban container and

Community Gardens Mobile Gardens

Sustainable
Agriculture/
Sloping Agriculture
Land Technology
Risk Reduction:
Ensuring Access to Safe Water

Community-
Based water
System

Water filtration

Rainwater Catchment
Risk Reduction:
Rekindling the Values of Saving and Stockpiling

Seedbanking and Nursery

Food processing and Packaging

Microfinancing
Governance:
Influencing multi-level Governance Systems

Mainstreaming in Barangay Linking local and

Development Plans National Policy
Lobbying

Campaigning

Leveraging and Use of Calamity Funds for DRR

Disaster Preparedness:
Preparing for Disasters

Provision of life saving

equipment and training

Contingency Planning
Responding to Disasters

Emergency Relief
based on Pre-positioning Response capacity
international standards through Rapid Response and
Assessment Team (RRAT)
Knowledge Management:
Managing Knowledge

Visible
Hazard Maps

Awareness Building Activities

Networking/GIS
Consortium Building Documentation, production and
dissemination of knowledge
products
 Knowledge Management:
Investing on Learning

Work in diverse ecosystems

Cross partner visits

Cross Partner and Community-

based Learning Circles
 Strategies

1. Advocacy and Mobilize and harness the print and

Information, Education broadcast media to regularly communicate,
and Communication warn and educate people nationwide about
(IEC) DRRM. Evidence-based advocacy is key for
effective information sharing and making
people understand DRRM.

2. Competency-based Customized training programs should be

Capability Building developed to ensure that people are
trained based on the needed skills in the
different DRRM aspects.

3. Contingency Planning More commonly used before as only part

of disaster preparedness activities,
contingency planning is now a living
document which is updated and used in all
the different aspects of DRRM
4. Education on DRRM and Education through the integration of
CCA for ALL DRR concepts in the curriculum (i.e.,
basic education, NSTP, bachelors’
degree) and for the public sector
employees
5. Institutionalization of
DRRMCs and
LDRRMOs

6. Mainstreaming of DRR in In all 4 aspects, we need to ensure that

ALL plans DRRM is mainstreamed in the various
programs, plans, projects of either
national or local government units,
including the private sector groups and
other members of the community.
7. Research, Technology With the changes in the climate and
Development and technological advances, we need research
Knowledge to help us innovate, adapt and maximize
Management the use of our resources to help our
people reduce and manage the risks to
disasters. This also include database
development and the documentation,
replication and recognition of good
practices
8. Monitoring, evaluation Feedback mechanisms are important
and learning aspects of gauging performance targets
and learning from our experiences on the
ground

9. Networking Building partnerships between

and among private and private
stakeholders, media
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