Philippines: Noveleta creates disaster risk reduction management council
PIA Press Release: 2010/12/08
Noveleta, Cavite - To immediately act for any eventuality especially during natural or man-made calamity, Mayor Boy Alvares created the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office with Luisito Alix as MDRRC officer.
As chairman of the MDRRC, Mayor Alvares is responsible for the over-all supervision of all the actions taken by the council as he mentioned the 18 members of the council that will support in the activities during and after the calamity.
Mayor Alvares said, the creation of the council was carefully planned and seriously discussed during the seminar he attended recently along with Vice Mayor Eric Garcia, Members of Sangguniang Bayan and the entire department heads.
The said seminar gave the participants full knowledge of the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management System and at the same time, the operational frameworks, programs thrusts and legal basis for the creation of the said council.
Mayor Alvares added that the creation of the council was based on Republic Act No. 10121, "An act Strengthening the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System, Providing for the National Disaster Risk reduction and Management Framework and Institutionalizing, Appropriating Funds Therefore and For Other Purposes."
The MDRRMC is composed of the offices/officers: Local Planning and Development Officer; Heads of the LDRRMO, Local Social Welfare and Development Office, Local Health Office, Local Agriculture Office, Gender and Development Office, Local Engineering Office, Local Veterinary Office, Local Budget Office; Division Head/ Superintendent of Schools of the DepEd; Highest Ranking Officer of the Armed Forces assigned in the area; Provincial Director/City/Municipal Chief of the Philippine National Police; Provincial Director/City/Municipal Fire Marshall of the Bureau of Fire Protection; President of the Association of Barangay Captains (ABC); four accredited Civil Society Organizations (CSOs); and one private sector representative. (PIA-Cavite)