Ifugao Disaster Council submits plan to SP for approval, budget allocation
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by Dan B. Codamon
LAGAWE, Ifugao- The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) here recently submitted its Disaster Plan for the year 2011-2014 to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) for approval and budget allocation.
This is in compliance with the mandate of Republic Act 10121 also known as “The Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010” that says for local government units to develop, promote, and implement a comprehensive disaster plan that aims to strengthen their capacity to institutionalize arrangements and measures for reducing disaster risk and enhancing disaster preparedness and response capabilities at all times.
The PDRRMC Plan is a mitigating and preparedness tool in dealing with the perceived consequences before and after a calamity strikes.
The Plan describes Ifugao as highly vulnerable to natural hazards such as tropical cyclones and complex weather systems as well as human-induced hazards resulting to landslides, mudslides, and flashfloods.
About 37 percent or 96,860 hectares of its land are severely prone to erosion and 19 percent or 48,893 hectares are moderately prone to erosion making more than half (56 percent) of the province land area as having problems on erosion.
The areas prone to eorsion are the municipalities of Aguinaldo,Mayoyao, Lagawe, Hingyon, Banaue, Hungduan, Kiangan, Tinoc, and Lamut.
Many typhoons in the past years have brought damages to lives and properties in the province such as the landslide in 2008 during typhoon “Hana” which buried eight people alive in Pitawan, HIngyon and typhoon “Emong” in 2009 that killed 16 people, injured 19, and damaged properties, crops, and infrastructures worth millions of pesos.
Flood is not a major threat in Ifugao as it occurs only during heavy rains and are concentrated in rivers and in low base stream valleys; there is also flood as a result of local run-off of water coming from the surrounding higher landscape.
Municipalities prone to flooding include Aguinaldo, Kiangan, Lagawe, Lamut, and Alfonso Lista.
The PDRRMC Plan aims to reduce the occurrence of morbidity, mortality, and damage to property due to disaster and to ensure public safety and security.
It will try to sustain a zero death occurrence due to disaster; maintain zero incidence of water and environment-related disease; conduct regular information, education, and campaign to all stakeholders; implement projects that involve civil and military cooperation that builds trust and confidence and supportive of peace and order. It will also comply with building and fire prevention codes to secure properties.
Under the Plan, the implementation and management of disaster shall now be dealt in four phases - the first and second phases are considered pre-disaster phases better known as Mitigation and Preparedness which constitute mitigating disaster effects and preparing for the imminent onslaught of disaster which were not done in recent times.
The last phases are the more common and traditional Response and Rehabilitation where actions are executed during and after a calamity.
These will address the five major issues and concerns on the occurrence of injuries and deaths due to disaster, disruption of delivery of social services, increase morbidity on water and environment-related diseases, disruption of way of life due to arm conflict and increase damage to personal properties. *(JDP/DBC-PIA CAR,Ifugao)
LAGAWE, Ifugao- The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) here recently submitted its Disaster Plan for the year 2011-2014 to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) for approval and budget allocation.
This is in compliance with the mandate of Republic Act 10121 also known as “The Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010” that says for local government units to develop, promote, and implement a comprehensive disaster plan that aims to strengthen their capacity to institutionalize arrangements and measures for reducing disaster risk and enhancing disaster preparedness and response capabilities at all times.
The PDRRMC Plan is a mitigating and preparedness tool in dealing with the perceived consequences before and after a calamity strikes.
The Plan describes Ifugao as highly vulnerable to natural hazards such as tropical cyclones and complex weather systems as well as human-induced hazards resulting to landslides, mudslides, and flashfloods.
About 37 percent or 96,860 hectares of its land are severely prone to erosion and 19 percent or 48,893 hectares are moderately prone to erosion making more than half (56 percent) of the province land area as having problems on erosion.
The areas prone to eorsion are the municipalities of Aguinaldo,Mayoyao, Lagawe, Hingyon, Banaue, Hungduan, Kiangan, Tinoc, and Lamut.
Many typhoons in the past years have brought damages to lives and properties in the province such as the landslide in 2008 during typhoon “Hana” which buried eight people alive in Pitawan, HIngyon and typhoon “Emong” in 2009 that killed 16 people, injured 19, and damaged properties, crops, and infrastructures worth millions of pesos.
Flood is not a major threat in Ifugao as it occurs only during heavy rains and are concentrated in rivers and in low base stream valleys; there is also flood as a result of local run-off of water coming from the surrounding higher landscape.
Municipalities prone to flooding include Aguinaldo, Kiangan, Lagawe, Lamut, and Alfonso Lista.
The PDRRMC Plan aims to reduce the occurrence of morbidity, mortality, and damage to property due to disaster and to ensure public safety and security.
It will try to sustain a zero death occurrence due to disaster; maintain zero incidence of water and environment-related disease; conduct regular information, education, and campaign to all stakeholders; implement projects that involve civil and military cooperation that builds trust and confidence and supportive of peace and order. It will also comply with building and fire prevention codes to secure properties.
Under the Plan, the implementation and management of disaster shall now be dealt in four phases - the first and second phases are considered pre-disaster phases better known as Mitigation and Preparedness which constitute mitigating disaster effects and preparing for the imminent onslaught of disaster which were not done in recent times.
The last phases are the more common and traditional Response and Rehabilitation where actions are executed during and after a calamity.
These will address the five major issues and concerns on the occurrence of injuries and deaths due to disaster, disruption of delivery of social services, increase morbidity on water and environment-related diseases, disruption of way of life due to arm conflict and increase damage to personal properties. *(JDP/DBC-PIA CAR,Ifugao)
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