On Wednesday, Feb. 22, two House committees began discussing the creation of a Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) to manage disasters and strengthen the nation's institutional capacity for disaster risk reduction.
Two committees in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Feb. 22, began deliberations on the proposed creation of a Department of Disaster Resilience , which will lead the management of disasters and improve the country’s institutional capacity for disaster risk reduction.
Residents try to salvage belongings amongst their houses destroyed at the height of Typhoon Vongfong in San Policarpio town, Eastern Samar province on May 15, 2020, a day after the typhoon hit the town. Salceda recognized that the working draft bill may deviate from the hopes of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to establish something similar to the United States’ Federal Emergency Management Agency , which falls under the Department of Homeland Security to prepare for, prevent, and mitigate the effects of natural and man-made domestic disasters.
Aside from creating DDR, HB 48 seeks to give powers to the agency to recommend to the President the declaration of a state of calamity and grants the President the powers to impose administrative sanctions against local chief executives and barangay officials for “willful or negligent acts.” “A new Department of Disaster Resilience will effectively improve the institutional capacity of the government for disaster risk reduction and management, reduce the vulnerabilities surrounding the affected local population as well as build the resilience of local communities to both natural disasters and climate change,” the bill’s explanatory note said.
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