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Disaster Preparedness Checklist for LGUs

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As government ofcials the protecton of our people and
communites from the adverse efects of disaster is our
sacred obligaton. Therefore, we are lef with no other
opton but prepare through early actons based on solid
risk informaton that will ensure minimum loss of lives and
propertes and asertain early recovery.
Mar A. Roxas
Secretary DILG & Chairperson
LGA Board of Trustees
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Foreword

In the midst of all the disasters happening in the country today,
our local government units need to be appropriately prepared.
According to DRRM Act of 2010 (RA10121), the LGUs are
mandated to ensure that that their communites are safe and
resilient to the challenges of the disasters and this is possible
if the LGUs are putng the policy into acton. Our LGUs are at
the forefront and the frst responders before, during, afer the
disaster. It is necessary that they are equipped with guidelines
that will operatonalize these mandates.
This checklist will serve as a tool for the LGUs for policy decisions,
strategic acton formulaton and assessing the current status of
their LGU that will gear-up their disaster preparedness driven
by the early warnings to create early acton, therefore reduce
losses, and efect quick recovery.
The DILG through the Local Government Academy developed
this material as a result of the lessons learned by the DILG feld
Ofces and the series of workshops with the LGUs through
Iba Na Ang Panahon: Science for Safer Communites. These
workshops are being conducted jointly by Department of
Science and Technology (DOST), Ofce of Civil Defense (OCD)
and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).
It is especially prepared to provide the Local Chief Executves
and the Local Disaster Risk Reducton Council/Ofcers guide
in assessing their disaster preparedness in their respectve
localites.
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Disaster Preparedness Checklist
For LGUs:
The LGU is at the forefront of disaster risk reducton and
management as mandated by the DRRM Act of 2010 (RA
10121). As a guide to operatonalize this mandate, here is
a list for LGUs of the things that should be done to create
safer and resilient communites. Note that this list is not
exclusive and may be customized according to specifc
local hazards and risks.
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Safer and
Resilient
Communites
This guide is a cycle to refect the process of
contnuity and thus, it shall perpetually be open to
improvements.
Capacity Building
& Advocatng
Before
Disaster
Celebratng
Gains
Prepositoning
& Partnering
Assesing &
Early Warning
Planning
Organizing
Prior to the Issuance or
broadcast of any severe
weather warning
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Safer and
Resilient
Communites
Communicatng
Operatonalizing
Response
Facilites
During
Disaster
Managing
the ICS
Contnuing
Relief
Assistance
Building-
Back
Post-Disaster
Assesing
Afer
Disaster
Ensuring
Accessibility
Within 12 hours from the
broadcast of a disaster
warning within a
geographical area
In the afermath of a calamity
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Before a Disaster
Planning
Review the Comprehensive Land Use Plan and
Comprehensive Development Plan of the city/
municipality in the context of the hazard assessment
result
Update on the new trends and policies on
Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUPs) formulaton.
Approval of the Local Disaster Risk-Reducton
Management Plan.
Prepare and approve a contngency plan for
antcipated hazard
Include/incorporate the DRRM and Climate Change
Adaptaton actvites in the Annual Budget
Formulate guidelines for Emergency Response Teams,
specifying the protocols, dutes, and responsibilites
Enactment of a local policy for the forced and pre-
emptve evacuaton
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Organizing
Establish a Local Disaster Risk-Reducton and
Management Council
Establish a Local Disaster Risk-Reducton and
Management Ofce
Ensure that the LDRRM Council is created by the
provision of an Executve Order or a Resoluton
Appoint/Designate a Local DRRM Ofcer in the
LDRRM Ofce
Conduct regular LDRRMC meetng
Organize/Establish a Trained Disaster Emergency
Response Team
Organize a system for volunteers and relief workers
Capacity Building
Conduct capacity building actvites for the local chief
executve and the DRRM ofce personnel (DRRM
module incorporated into barangay trainings)
Conduct of Comprehensive Training Program for
Search and Rescue
Conduct regular simulaton exercises as part of the
skills-trainings for the Emergency Response
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Advocatng: Informing the Community
Provide IEC materials like newspaper, brochures,
fyers and poster for early warning and disaster
preparedness
Intensify disaster preparedness Informaton,
Educaton, and Communicaton (IEC) through the use
social media
Distribute Disaster Guide to the consttuents
Conduct a quarterly hazard drill (fre, food, typhoon,
storm surges, tsunami and earthquake) down to the
household level
Assessing the Hazard
Ensure the availability of hazard maps
Determine the number and locaton of vulnerable or
marginalized individuals that includes elderly, poor,
women, children, diferently-able person, and ethnic
minorites
Identfy the community assets that are susceptble
to damaging efects of hazard (physical, social,
economic, and environmental factors such as poor
design and constructon of buildings and inadequate
protecton of assets)
Prepare evacuaton maps, signages, and guide for
families
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Conduct rapid assessment and need analysis
regarding integrity of infrastructures, public buildings,
facilites and food control structures
Early Warning
Install a rain or water level gauges or visual markers
in the strategic areas
Update regularly the Community-Based Early
Warning System (CBEWS)
Prepare early-wide warning and alarm system,
whether statonary or portable
Prepositoning
Prepare and secure evacuaton centers other than
public school buildings
Acquire possible locaton for temporary shelter
Ensure that the prepared relief goods including
cadaver bags are situated in a safe place
Acquire a complete disaster and emergency response
equipage
Prepositon DRRM equipment in strategic areas
Identfy evacuaton centers in existng facilites
Establish permanent evacuaton centers in the safest
area in the community to accommodate displaced
people
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Partnering
Establish partnerships with other LGUs for DRRM and
emergency response purposes which is supported
with Memorandum of Agreement or Memorandum
of Understanding
Establish partnership with Volunteer Groups, Civil
Society, Business or Private Sector
Create a volunteer desk and designate a Volunteer
Desk Management Ofcer
Establish partnerships with business establishment
such as groceries, hardwares, funeral parlors and
other establishments necessary to support relief and
recovery
Identfy a group of psycho-social professionals from
the government, NGOs, academe and so on, to
facilitate life coaching, and stress debriefng/psycho
social care for debriefng, comfortng, and processing
afer the disaster
Celebratng Gains
Initate innovatve practces on DRRM as evidence by
recogniton, citaton or awards received
Establish a local awards system for DRR preparedness
and response.
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During a Disaster
Communicatng
Mobilize text brigade/blast to the consttuent
regarding the impact of the disaster
Create/establish an operatonal audio-visual signaling
device for PWDs
Utlize indigenous communicaton system for early
warnings
Managing the Incident Command System (ICS)
Actvate ICS
Actvate Incident Command Post/Center
Actvate Disaster Command Auxiliary Command
Center
Deploy Emergency Response Teams, Rescue and
Medical Team
Ensure that the security system is in place
Operatonalizing Response Facilites
Actvate all designated Evacuaton Centers
Actvate a functonal 24- hours Disaster Operaton or
emergency Center, or its equivalent
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After a Disaster
Contnuing Relief Assistance
Manage volunteer groups and relief assistants
Provide medical and psycho-social counseling services
to families or individuals-in-need
Managing the Dead and the Missing (when applicable)
Collaborate with the barangays, PNP and other agencies
in identfy the dead.
Prepare an inventory of missing individuals in
coordinaton with barangays
Actvate partnership agreement with funeral parlors and
mortuaries for appropriate management of dead bodies
Organize search and rescue operatons for the missing
individuals
Post-Disaster Assessing
Conduct Post Disaster Needs Assessment
See to it that afected areas are no longer dangerous to
evacuees prior to their return
Conduct a damage assessment on: (a) local government-
owned facilites, buildings and infrastructure; and (b)
agriculture, i.e., crops, livestock, fsheries, and link
damage assessment informaton to reconstructon and
rehabilitaton eforts
Ensuring Accessibility
Clear road systems
Cause the collecton of garbage and the total
clean-up and clearing of waterways and sew-
erage systems in the locality within 24 hours
Acknowledgement

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Pamayanan Mo?
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is a product of the consolidated report on assessment
on the capacity of local government units to manage
recovery eforts afer the wrath of Super Typhoon
Yolanda submited by the diferent DILG Regional
Ofces. The checklist also took inspiraton from the local
government ofcials who took tme out to partcipate
in the workshops conducted for the Iba Na Ang
Panahon: Science for Safer Communites in partnership
with the Department of Science and Technology where
several indicators in the checklist were culled out from
the workshop outputs. The checklist also used the
DILGs Data Captured Form of the then Seal of Disaster
Preparedness in order to consistently assess the DRRM
capacity of the LGUs.
The DILG thought it best to prepare this checklist so
local government ofcials can self-assess the readiness
of their LGUs and their communites before, during and
afer disaster.
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