20/01/2021
After TS “OndoyPH,” markers were erected to remember the more than 464 victims and to serve as a reminder of the importance of disaster preparedness and the need to disaster-proof communities, especially those classified as danger zones.
In 2010, Republic Act 10121 was enacted to overhaul the government’s response to calamities with the goal of ‘strengthening the country’s disaster risk reduction and management system’ and ‘institutionalizing the country’s disaster risk reduction and management and management plan’.
That was the birth to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDDRMC) in 2010, barely a year after ‘Ondoy’. It was empowered with policy-making, integration, supervision, monitoring and evaluation functions on matters pertaining to disaster prevention and mitigation, disaster preparedness, disaster response and rehabilitation and recovery.
SOURCES: officialgazette.gov.ph
mb.com.ph
