By: Ana-Liza S. Macatangay
Naga City, March 31 (PIA) --- Readiness beats the ill-effects of untoward occurrences, saves lives and spare properties from destruction – this is the basic message that Project LISTO endeavors to convey to the partakers of the one-day disaster preparedness dialogue held over the weekend at the Star View Hotel, here.
“Listo” , a local dialect which means alert was coined to represent the latest campaign of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on disaster preparedness. It aims, among others to promote complementation of efforts among the local government units (LGUs), civil society organizations (CSOs), private sector, local resource institutions (LRIs), and the media in building safer, more adaptive and resilient communities.
Prior to the said activity, all Punong Barangays from different Camarines Sur towns were gathered for a 2-day orientation- workshop. The participants were tasked to come up with an action plan detailing the prevailing issues and concerns in their respective areas of jurisdiction and raise the awareness of their constituents through a wider information dissemination strategy.
DILG Camarines Sur Provincial Director Arnel Renato L. Madrideo stated that it is their agency’s primordial concern to identify key partners that will serve as coaches for the conduct of Barangay Coaching on Disaster Preparedness manuals.
“The DILG, being the Vice-Chair on Disaster Preparedness at the national level and as the primary agency tasked to develop and scale-up the capacities of LGUs, launched Project LISTO primarily to help LGUs ensure the safety of their constituents.”
Also as part of the activity’s output, partakers are expected to come up with a locally prepared manual which will be utilized by other communities or LGUs in the implementation of their disaster risk reduction and management activities and initiatives. This, DILG believes, will strengthen the commitment and partnership among all the stakeholders in DRRM and Listo Movement.
Madrideo also emphasized that although their focus is on disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness, they have also included gender and development (GAD) concerns which are consistent to the objective to include women in disaster-related activities as well as in the other development efforts of the LGUs.
Project LISTO is composed of various phases: national launching, regional launching and orientation, provincial convergence action planning, preparedness dialogue, wemboree for DRR, one-on-one coaching with Local Chief Executives-DRRM Officers, barangay coaching and eventually the organization of DRRMO Federation.
The said project is also pursuant to the realization of Republic Act No. 10121 or an act strengthening the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System and Republic Act no. 9729 otherwise known as the Climate Change Act of 2009 or an act “mainstreaming climate change into government policy formulations, establishing the framework strategy and program on climate change, creating for the purpose the climate change commission.”
Madrideo during the dialogue, enjoins everyone to be an active partaker to ensure the success of the said initiative. (LSMacatangay, PIAV/Camarines Sur)
- See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/861427784670/dilg-launches-project-listo-spearheads-disaster-preparedness-dialogue#sthash.qDZbP3oZ.dpuf
Naga City, March 31 (PIA) --- Readiness beats the ill-effects of untoward occurrences, saves lives and spare properties from destruction – this is the basic message that Project LISTO endeavors to convey to the partakers of the one-day disaster preparedness dialogue held over the weekend at the Star View Hotel, here.
“Listo” , a local dialect which means alert was coined to represent the latest campaign of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on disaster preparedness. It aims, among others to promote complementation of efforts among the local government units (LGUs), civil society organizations (CSOs), private sector, local resource institutions (LRIs), and the media in building safer, more adaptive and resilient communities.
Prior to the said activity, all Punong Barangays from different Camarines Sur towns were gathered for a 2-day orientation- workshop. The participants were tasked to come up with an action plan detailing the prevailing issues and concerns in their respective areas of jurisdiction and raise the awareness of their constituents through a wider information dissemination strategy.
DILG Camarines Sur Provincial Director Arnel Renato L. Madrideo stated that it is their agency’s primordial concern to identify key partners that will serve as coaches for the conduct of Barangay Coaching on Disaster Preparedness manuals.
“The DILG, being the Vice-Chair on Disaster Preparedness at the national level and as the primary agency tasked to develop and scale-up the capacities of LGUs, launched Project LISTO primarily to help LGUs ensure the safety of their constituents.”
Also as part of the activity’s output, partakers are expected to come up with a locally prepared manual which will be utilized by other communities or LGUs in the implementation of their disaster risk reduction and management activities and initiatives. This, DILG believes, will strengthen the commitment and partnership among all the stakeholders in DRRM and Listo Movement.
Madrideo also emphasized that although their focus is on disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness, they have also included gender and development (GAD) concerns which are consistent to the objective to include women in disaster-related activities as well as in the other development efforts of the LGUs.
Project LISTO is composed of various phases: national launching, regional launching and orientation, provincial convergence action planning, preparedness dialogue, wemboree for DRR, one-on-one coaching with Local Chief Executives-DRRM Officers, barangay coaching and eventually the organization of DRRMO Federation.
The said project is also pursuant to the realization of Republic Act No. 10121 or an act strengthening the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System and Republic Act no. 9729 otherwise known as the Climate Change Act of 2009 or an act “mainstreaming climate change into government policy formulations, establishing the framework strategy and program on climate change, creating for the purpose the climate change commission.”
Madrideo during the dialogue, enjoins everyone to be an active partaker to ensure the success of the said initiative. (LSMacatangay, PIAV/Camarines Sur)
- See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/861427784670/dilg-launches-project-listo-spearheads-disaster-preparedness-dialogue#sthash.qDZbP3oZ.dpuf
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