CDRRMC reviews contigency plans
THE REGIONAL Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council is gearing to train local governments to learn risk areas in their communities and for
them to come up with their own contingency plans.
CDRRMC chair and Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) regional director Ruben Carandang said the conduct of quarterly earthquake drills will be part of the communitybased disaster training to capacitate the barangay level.
“We will look into how they have their contingency plans and assist them on how to perform it better. Noong pumunta po ako Cordillera, ang concept natin bottoms up, i-capacitate natin iyong barangay going to municipal, provincial before regional. Hindi dapat tinitignan regional, dapat ang action magmumulala sa lowest disaster management body which is the barangay,” Carandang said.
“From the quarterly earthquake drill we are reviewing the local disaster contingency plans,” he added.
National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Executive Director Ricardo Jalad stated the community first responders training is now on its fourth course which started this year developed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Health, Department of the Interior and Local Government and the OCD.
LGUs and regional government agencies will be trained in view of the OCD role to orchestrate different agencies.
“Alam na nila kung ano ang gagawin nila kapag darating na iyong bagyo, dapat magkakaroon ng protocol doon, iyon ang isang effort to capacitate the LGU para sila ang magtuturo sa community,” Jalad added
Jalad added the review of Disaster Risk Reduction Management Plan remains a work in progress as they are also working with the DILG.
On Thursday, Jalad convene a meeting at the OCD-CAR in Baguio City with the regional offices who gave update on the response on Ompong and initial plan for the conduct of post disaster needs assessment that will solve the crafting of the rehab and recovery plan of Cordillera Administrative Region.
Part of the discussion includes rehab and recovery plan on agriculture, roads and bridges and other sectors. Itogon may also make its rehab and recovery plan, adds Jalad.
Jalad shared part of the barangay captains in Itogon concerns is the plight of small-scale miners that is being addressed by Department of Environment and Natural Resources with the possible opening of Minahang Bayan.