18 October 2005
Feature: Disaster Preparedness
City Gets $100K aid from USAID
DAGUPAN City has been chosen official partner in the Philippines of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) based in Bangkok for a project called Program for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia (PROMISE).
The project funded by the United States Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) at US $100,000, also provides for a technical and training assistance program to Dagupan City.
Members of the Center for Disaster Preparedness, the local non-government organization partner of Dagupan in the program, held a meeting with the City Disaster Coordinating Council last Monday to discuss the matter.
The CDP was in Dagupan earlier last July to consolidate the requirements and information which were submitted to ADPC. Last October 2, USAID/OFDA approved the selection of Dagupan.
Malu Fellizar Cagay of CDP expressed the organization’s gratitude to the officials of Dagupan for providing the requirement promptly which led to the realization of the project.
In the meeting, Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) chief Robert Erfe-Mejia thanked the technical and training assistance to be given Dagupan and asked the CDP how Dagupan could benefit from the project in terms of other logistics.
City Planning and Development Officer Romeo Rosario, for his part, noted the need to come out with a hydro-meteorological scenario and how disaster weather disturbances worsen so that the city can calibrate its actions accordingly.
Cagay said PROMISE will contribute to a safer Dagupan City, adding that it proposes to increase adoption of private and public sector mechanisms for community preparedness and mitigation of hydro-meteorological disaster risk in urban areas. The main purpose is to “measurably alleviate human suffering, prevent loss of life and reduce the potential for physical and economic change.”
Fe Castro Andaya of CDP stressed that one mayor goal of the project is to incorporate the participation of the barangays and make them proactive to disasters.
Ernie Alcamel of Naga City, the first city in the Philippines that implemented the program, oriented the CDCC members on his city’s experience with the program.
Other countries in the South and South Asia that implement the program are Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam (Sunshine D. Robles)
DAGUPAN City has been chosen official partner in the Philippines of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) based in Bangkok for a project called Program for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia (PROMISE).
The project funded by the United States Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) at US $100,000, also provides for a technical and training assistance program to Dagupan City.
Members of the Center for Disaster Preparedness, the local non-government organization partner of Dagupan in the program, held a meeting with the City Disaster Coordinating Council last Monday to discuss the matter.
The CDP was in Dagupan earlier last July to consolidate the requirements and information which were submitted to ADPC. Last October 2, USAID/OFDA approved the selection of Dagupan.
Malu Fellizar Cagay of CDP expressed the organization’s gratitude to the officials of Dagupan for providing the requirement promptly which led to the realization of the project.
In the meeting, Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) chief Robert Erfe-Mejia thanked the technical and training assistance to be given Dagupan and asked the CDP how Dagupan could benefit from the project in terms of other logistics.
City Planning and Development Officer Romeo Rosario, for his part, noted the need to come out with a hydro-meteorological scenario and how disaster weather disturbances worsen so that the city can calibrate its actions accordingly.
Cagay said PROMISE will contribute to a safer Dagupan City, adding that it proposes to increase adoption of private and public sector mechanisms for community preparedness and mitigation of hydro-meteorological disaster risk in urban areas. The main purpose is to “measurably alleviate human suffering, prevent loss of life and reduce the potential for physical and economic change.”
Fe Castro Andaya of CDP stressed that one mayor goal of the project is to incorporate the participation of the barangays and make them proactive to disasters.
Ernie Alcamel of Naga City, the first city in the Philippines that implemented the program, oriented the CDCC members on his city’s experience with the program.
Other countries in the South and South Asia that implement the program are Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam (Sunshine D. Robles)
