The House Committee on Government Reorganization, in a joint meeting with the Committee on Disaster Resilience, recently approved a substitute bill seeking to create the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) as the principal government institution responsible for ensuring safe, adaptive and disaster resilient communities.
In file photo: Members of the municipal disaster response unit chop down a fallen tree along the highway in Candelaria, Zambales as Typhoon Ulysses exited the province.
The DDR shall be the primary government agency responsible for leading, organizing and managing the national effort to reduce disaster risk, prepare for and respond to disasters, recover and rehabilitate, as well as build forward better after the occurrence of disasters. Albay Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda, head of the technical working group that crafted the substitute bill, highlighted that the Philippines is the country most at risk from the climate crisis based on a report published in 2019 by the Institute of Economics and Peace, and is also the country that suffered the greatest number of extreme climate-related events from 2009 to 2019, according to the Global Climate Risk Index.
Salceda said the country’s highest vulnerability scores are in the areas of “lack of coping capacities” and “lack of adaptive capacities.”
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