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“As government officials the protection of our people and communities from the adverse effects of disaster is our sacred obligation. Therefore, we are left with no other option but prepare through early actions based on solid risk information that will ensure minimum loss of lives and properties and asertain early recovery.”

Mar A. RoxasSecretary DILG & ChairpersonLGA Board of Trustees

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Foreword

In the midst of all the disasters happening in the country today, our local government units need to be appropriately prepared. According to DRRM Act of 2010 (RA10121), the LGUs are mandated to ensure that that their communities are safe and resilient to the challenges of the disasters and this is possible if the LGUs are putting the policy into action. Our LGUs are at the forefront and the first responders before, during, after the disaster. It is necessary that they are equipped with guidelines that will operationalize these mandates.

This checklist will serve as a tool for the LGUs for policy decisions, strategic action formulation and assessing the current status of their LGU that will gear-up their disaster preparedness driven by the early warnings to create early action, therefore reduce losses, and effect quick recovery.

The DILG through the Local Government Academy developed this material as a result of the lessons learned by the DILG field Offices and the series of workshops with the LGUs through “Iba Na Ang Panahon: Science for Safer Communities. These workshops are being conducted jointly by Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). It is especially prepared to provide the Local Chief Executives and the Local Disaster Risk Reduction Council/Officers guide in assessing their disaster preparedness in their respective localities.

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Handa Na Ba Ang Pamayanan Mo?Disaster Preparedness Checklist For LGUs:

The LGU is at the forefront of disaster risk reduction and management as mandated by the DRRM Act of 2010 (RA 10121). As a guide to operationalize this mandate, here is a list for LGUs of the things that should be done to create safer and resilient communities. Note that this list is not exclusive and may be customized according to specific local hazards and risks.

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Safer and Resilient

Communities

This guide is a cycle to reflect the process of continuity and thus, it shall perpetually be open to improvements.

Capacity Building & Advocating

BeforeDisaster

CelebratingGains

Prepositioning& Partnering

Assesing & Early Warning

PlanningOrganizing

Prior to the Issuance or broadcast of any severe

weather warning

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Safer and Resilient

Communities

Communicating

Operationalizing ResponseFacilities

DuringDisaster

Managing the ICS

ContinuingRelief

Assistance

Building- Back

Post-Disaster Assesing

AfterDisaster

EnsuringAccessibility

Within 12 hours from the broadcast of a disaster

warning within a geographical area

Intheaftermathofacalamity

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Before a Disaster

Planning

� Review the Comprehensive Land Use Plan and Comprehensive Development Plan of the city/municipality in the context of the hazard assessment result

� Update on the new trends and policies on Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUPs) formulation.

� Approval of the Local Disaster Risk-Reduction Management Plan.

� Prepare and approve a contingency plan for anticipated hazard

� Include/incorporate the DRRM and Climate Change Adaptation activities in the Annual Budget

� Formulate guidelines for Emergency Response Teams, specifying the protocols, duties, and responsibilities

� Enactment of a local policy for the forced and pre-emptive evacuation

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Organizing

� Establish a Local Disaster Risk-Reduction and Management Council

� Establish a Local Disaster Risk-Reduction and Management Office

� Ensure that the LDRRM Council is created by the provision of an Executive Order or a Resolution

� Appoint/Designate a Local DRRM Officer in the LDRRM Office

� Conduct regular LDRRMC meeting

� Organize/Establish a Trained Disaster Emergency Response Team

� Organize a system for volunteers and relief workers

Capacity Building

� Conduct capacity building activities for the local chief executive and the DRRM office personnel (DRRM module incorporated into barangay trainings)

� Conduct of Comprehensive Training Program for Search and Rescue

� Conduct regular simulation exercises as part of the skills-trainings for the Emergency Response

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Advocating:InformingtheCommunity

� Provide IEC materials like newspaper, brochures, flyers and poster for early warning and disaster preparedness

� Intensify disaster preparedness Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) through the use social media

� Distribute Disaster Guide to the constituents

� Conduct a quarterly hazard drill (fire, flood, typhoon, storm surges, tsunami and earthquake) down to the household level

Assessing the Hazard

� Ensure the availability of hazard maps

� Determine the number and location of vulnerable or marginalized individuals that includes elderly, poor, women, children, differently-able person, and ethnic minorities

� Identify the community assets that are susceptible to damaging effects of hazard (physical, social, economic, and environmental factors such as poor design and construction of buildings and inadequate protection of assets)

� Prepare evacuation maps, signages, and guide for families

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� Conduct rapid assessment and need analysis regarding integrity of infrastructures, public buildings, facilities and flood control structures

Early Warning

� Install a rain or water level gauges or visual markers in the strategic areas

� Update regularly the Community-Based Early Warning System (CBEWS)

� Prepare early-wide warning and alarm system, whether stationary or portable

Prepositioning

� Prepare and secure evacuation centers other than public school buildings

� Acquire possible location for temporary shelter

� Ensure that the prepared relief goods including cadaver bags are situated in a safe place

� Acquire a complete disaster and emergency response equipage

� Preposition DRRM equipment in strategic areas

� Identify evacuation centers in existing facilities

� Establish permanent evacuation centers in the safest area in the community to accommodate displaced people

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Partnering

� Establish partnerships with other LGUs for DRRM and emergency response purposes which is supported with Memorandum of Agreement or Memorandum of Understanding

� Establish partnership with Volunteer Groups, Civil Society, Business or Private Sector

� Create a volunteer desk and designate a Volunteer Desk Management Officer

� Establish partnerships with business establishment such as groceries, hardware’s, funeral parlors and other establishments necessary to support relief and recovery

� Identify a group of psycho-social professionals from the government, NGOs, academe and so on, to facilitate life coaching, and stress debriefing/psycho social care for debriefing, comforting, and processing after the disaster

CelebratingGains

� Initiate innovative practices on DRRM as evidence by recognition, citation or awards received

� Establish a local awards system for DRR preparedness and response.

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During a Disaster

Communicating

� Mobilize text brigade/blast to the constituent regarding the impact of the disaster

� Create/establish an operational audio-visual signaling device for PWDs

� Utilize indigenous communication system for early warnings

Managing the Incident Command System (ICS)

� Activate ICS

� Activate Incident Command Post/Center

� Activate Disaster Command Auxiliary Command Center

� Deploy Emergency Response Teams, Rescue and Medical Team

� Ensure that the security system is in place

OperationalizingResponseFacilities

� Activate all designated Evacuation Centers

� Activate a functional 24- hours Disaster Operation or emergency Center, or its equivalent

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After a Disaster

ContinuingReliefAssistance � Manage volunteer groups and relief assistants

� Provide medical and psycho-social counseling services to families or individuals-in-need

Managing the Dead and the Missing (when applicable) � Collaborate with the barangays, PNP and other agencies

in identify the dead.

� Prepare an inventory of missing individuals in coordination with barangays

� Activate partnership agreement with funeral parlors and mortuaries for appropriate management of dead bodies

� Organize search and rescue operations for the missing individuals

Post-Disaster Assessing � Conduct Post Disaster Needs Assessment

� See to it that affected areas are no longer dangerous to evacuees prior to their return

� Conduct a damage assessment on: (a) local government-owned facilities, buildings and infrastructure; and (b) agriculture, i.e., crops, livestock, fisheries, and link damage assessment information to reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts

Ensuring Accessibility � Clear road systems

� Cause the collection of garbage and the total clean-up and clearing of waterways and sew-erage systems in the locality within 24 hours

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Acknowledgement

Handa Na Ba Ang Pamayanan Mo?

Disaster Preparedness Checklist For LGUs: is a product of the consolidated report on assessment on the capacity of local government units to manage

recovery efforts after the wrath of Super Typhoon Yolanda submitted by the different DILG Regional

Offices. The checklist also took inspiration from the local government officials who took time out to participate

in the workshops conducted for the “Iba Na Ang Panahon: Science for Safer Communities in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology where several indicators in the checklist were culled out from

the workshop outputs. The checklist also used the DILG’s Data Captured Form of the then Seal of Disaster Preparedness in order to consistently assess the DRRM

capacity of the LGUs.

The DILG thought it best to prepare this checklist so local government officials can self-assess the readiness of their LGUs and their communities before, during and

after disaster.

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