MSSpotlight Environment and Sustainability: One Meralco Foundation takes an active role in enhancing disaster response and recovery planning of LGUs
One Meralco Foundation supports the government’s rollout of the PlanSmart Ready to Rebuild web application to enhance the capacity of LGUs to prepare for, respond to, and recovery from disasters better.
Through its support to the rollout of the web application PlanSmart Ready to Rebuild, OMF and Meralco aim to contribute to the government’s agenda of utilizing research and innovation, science-based decision making, and multi-sector collaboration to enhance disaster risk reduction and management. One Meralco Foundation President Jeffrey O. Tarayao delivers his message during the opening ceremony of a training session for the use of the PlanSmart Ready to Rebuild web app attended by local government unit representatives.
Capacity-building activities were provided to over 180 participants from 52 LGUs in Metro Manila, the Southern Tagalog Region, and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. These include data managers, disaster risk reduction and management officers, planning officers, and other technical staff involved in disaster rehabilitation and recovery programs.
“This app proves the saying ‘prevention is better than cure’. We cannot prevent natural disasters from occurring. But through this app, it is easier for us to input and generate comprehensive data and help us generate real-time output so we can prevent the bigger destructive effects of disasters,” shared Marlon Lopez, Local Disaster Risk Reduction Management Officer 1 from Pasay City.
“We supported the development of this innovative platform to help government, especially the LGUs, to plan for disaster and climate risks more efficiently and rebuild resiliently,” Cordero added.
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