Experts urged authorities to deal with Disaster Risk Reduction and Management at the local level to help ensure that the strategies in place would be implemented more effectively. Dr. Nimfa L.
Bracamonte, project leader of the study on Disaster Management Towards Climate Change Adaptation in Two River Systems in Iligan City, discussing the results of the respondents’ interview on their experience during typhoon Sendong.
Bracamonte shared this said in the recently concluded Mindanao Policy Forum on National Research Council of the Philippines Research-based DRRM Policies: Keeping Everyone Safe. The forum was organized and conducted by the DOST– NRCP which also funded the study. Typhoon “Sendong” left 29 of the 44 barangays in Iligan City badly affected by the typhoon – resulting in the loss of thousands of lives and costly damage to properties, infrastructures and livelihood.
Embornas, a member of the research team, said that although her family heard about the storm from DOST-PAGASA, “they initially took it lightly since typhoons didn’t leave much of a negative impact usually in Iligan.” However, Embornas noted as the water began to rise, her family evacuated and spent the night in a hotel.
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