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Strengthening
Local Disaster
Management
OCCASIONAL
PAPER
AUGUST 2016
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Strengthening
Local Disaster
Management
NATURAL DISASTERS
In the Philippines, more than half of the total land area is exposed
to multiple hazards and two-thirds of the population are vulnerable to natural disasters.
Hazards lead to disasters. In the context of rapid urbanization, exposure to
hazards intensifies and weakens the vulnerability of poor people.
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With regard to salary and remuneration, JMC-1 2014 prescribes the following salary grade for LDRRMO for each classification of LGUs.
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Capacity Gaps
LGUs encounter difficulties in implementing the DRR
law because of the lack of implementation advice
and knowledge particularly on provisions related
to use of funds, staffing, and institutionalization.17
There is also need to invest in capacity development
including identification of key competencies. Before
the release of guidelines on creating LDRRMO and
assigning permanent local DRRM officers, LGUs
were at a loss on how to create the personnel
position and allocate budget for the office.
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resilience and development. The practice of copying and fillingout pro-forma plans defeats the purpose of understanding local
risks and developing programs to address local risks. LDRRMOs
demand to have knowledge and skills in data collection, analysis,
and reporting. Data gathering is critical in planning tools such as
hazard mapping, risk assessment, assets audit, and vulnerability
mapping and assessment. Knowledge and skills in using
planning tools that focuses on how to collect and use
data can help DRRMOs develop LDRRMP and LCCAP
that are relevant to the local communitys goals.23
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Institutional incentives
In the administration of Benigno Aquino III, the DILG implemented
the Seal of Good Local Governance. The SGLG was a
performance-based grant that allows compliant LGUs to access
performance grants to fund development projects. One of the
criteria to obtain the SGLG is to show that the SGLG has invested
in capacity and organizational development on local DRR. However,
the DILG (2014) reports than less than half of the local governments
in the country have passed the SGLG. Another incentive
mechanism is the Bottom-up Budgeting (BuB) where LGUs can
propose capacity-building projects related to DRR . Other LGUs are
motivated by international and local recognition. DRR in Bulacan
and Albay are regarded by the Office of Civil Defense (OCD)
(Gawad Kalasag Awards) and the International Strategy for Disaster
Risk Reduction by the United Nations as best practices in the
Philippines and in the developing economies.
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endnotes
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See http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ireus/Internationales/WorldRiskIndex. The
World Risk Index was developed by Jrn Birkmann and Torsten Welle of the Institute
of Spatial and Regional Planning, University of Stuttgart. The index measures exposure
to natural hazards and their impact on 171 countries. The results are disseminated in
the World Risk Report published annually by the United Nations University and Alliance
Development Works.
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Joint Memorandum Circular 2014 -1. NDRRMC, DILG, DBM, and CSC.
April 4, 2014
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Magno, F. (2013). Local Government Cooperation and Capacity in DRRM
and CCA. Commission on Higher Education Philippine Higher Education Network
(CHED-PHERNet). Unpublished work.
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Joint Memorandum Circular 2014 -1. NDRRMC, DILG, DBM, and CSC.
April 4, 2014
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Department of the Interior and Local Government (2014). Results of the
Seal of Good Local Governance Round One. Unpublished report.
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Government of the Philippines, ADB, UN. 2008. National Assessment on
the State of Disaster Risk Management in the Philippines. Final Report. October. Manila.
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Joint Memorandum Circular 2014 -1. NDRRMC, DILG, DBM, and CSC.
April 4, 2014
The EM-DAT, The International Disaster Database is managed by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, School of Public Health, Universit
Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
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2028.
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UNESCAP, UNISDR. 2012. Reducing Vulnerability and Exposure to Disasters: The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2012, Bangkok.
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Eunice Agsaoay-Sao. 2010. Advocacy and Support Work for the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Law in the Philippines. in Lenore Polotandela Cruz, Elmer M. Ferrer, and Maureen C. Pagaduan, eds. Building Disaster Resilient
Communities: Stories and Lessons from the Philippines. Quezon City: CSWCD-University of the Philippines.
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Ralph S. Brower and Francisco A. Magno. 2011. A Third Way in the Philippines: Voluntary Organizing for a New Disaster Management Paradigm, International
Review of Public Administration, vol. 16, 1: 31-50.
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United Nations ISDR (2010). Local Governments and Disaster Risk Reduction: Good Practices and Lessons Learned. United Nations: Geneva
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Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction (2012). Making Cities Resilient.
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. United Nations: Geneva
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Commission on Audit (2014). Assessment of Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management at the Local Level. Commission on Audit: Quezon City
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Magno, F. (2013). Local Government Cooperation and Capacity in DRRM
and CCA. Commission on Higher Education Philippine Higher Education Network
(CHED-PHERNet). Unpublished work.
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Commission on Audit (2014). Assessment of Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management at the Local Level. Commission on Audit: Quezon City
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Francisco A. Magno and Ian Jayson Hecita. 2015. Local Governance Capacity Development for Disaster Reduction, Report for the Philippines-Australia Human
Resources and Organizational Development Facility.
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Department of the Interior and Local Government (2014). Results of the
Seal of Good Local Governance Round One. Unpublished report.
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Francisco A. Magno and Ian Jayson Hecita. 2015. Local Governance Capacity Development for Disaster Reduction, Report for the Philippines-Australia Human
Resources and Organizational Development Facility.
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Magno, F. (2013). Local Government Cooperation and Capacity in DRRM
and CCA. Commission on Higher Education Philippine Higher Education Network
(CHED-PHERNet). Unpublished work.
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Francisco A. Magno and Ian Jayson Hecita. 2015. Local Governance Capacity Development for Disaster Reduction, Report for the Philippines-Australia Human
Resources and Organizational Development Facility.
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ABOUT
Dr. Francisco A. Magno and Ian Jayson Hecita
Dr. Kiko Magno is a Trustee of the ADR Institute. He is likewise the
President of the Philippine Political Science Association. Concurrently, he is
the Director of De La Salle University Robredo Institute of Governance and
an Associate Professor of Political Science in De La Salle University. His
expertise includes Political Science, Development Studies and Comparative
Politics. Most of his papers include research on policy analysis, local
government, local development and environmental studies.
Ian Jayson Hecita is currently Program Manager at the Jesse M. Robredo
Institute of Governance of De La Salle University. In 2010, Mr. Hecita was
Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for Energy Systems, Economics,
and Sustainability at Florida State University. His research interests include
collective action theory and practice, collaborative local governance,
and disaster risk reduction and management.
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