BY: ANA-LIZA S. MACATANGAY
NAGA CITY, Oct. 9 (PIA)--- The successful implementation of eco-based disaster risk reduction project Calabanga town in Camarines Sur has been now being replicated in the neighboring municipalities of Magarao, Bombon and Magarao while others located along the Bicol River Basin are also mulling to adopt the same measures.
Calabanga has successfully projected the effective practice of disaster risk reduction by pursuing an eco-based approach through propagation of the mangrove plantation in Barangay Pagao, this town.to lessen the harsh impact of catastrophes besetting their villages and disaster prone coastal barangays,
CARE Netherlands representative and DRR advisor Celso Dulce Jr. said that the effective practice of risk reduction has attracted other local government units to share the same goal regardless of their political affiliations and come up with a unified effort to provide their community with ample protection from disasters.
This was also the positive remarks aired by European Union Head of Delegation Guy Ledoux after visiting Calabanga last week to check on the status of the implementation of the Scale-up, Build-up (SUBU) project being implemented by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) through its disaster preparedness ECHO (DIPECHO).
DIPECHO, which started in 1996, aims at improving the capacities of at-risk communities to prepare for and shield themselves from natural disasters. Calabanga was one of its recipients in its SUBU project which aims to strengthen local alliances and enjoin them to work together to create a bigger leap in combatting the ill effects of disaster.
Ledoux complimented the local government unit and members of the community for recently incorporating disaster risk reduction in the municipality’s comprehensive development plan.
“I would also like to commend our local leaders for ensuring that disaster risk reduction programming has survived the leadership change occasioned by the recent elections,” Ledoux added.
The town of Calabanga is now being headed by newly-elected mayor Eduardo Severo after former Mayor Evelyn Yu finished her term last May elections.
Mayor Eduardo Severo is also thankful that the European Union has continued to give its support to their town by ensuring that the project is properly implemented and by providing their people with necessary trainings to sustain the needs and demands of the program.
“With support from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department since 2007, the time when the Disaster Risk Reduction project also started in Calabanga, we expanded coverage to a few coastal barangays and by 2011, we have already covered some upland barangays after realizing that the lowland is affected by problems besetting the upland area,” Severo added.
After the project ended in 2011, a Food Facility project , which complimented the DRR project was implemented from 2009 until 2011. A Php24M budget was allocated by EU for the said purpose.
EU is happy to note that their efforts were not wasted. Calabanga is currently serving as mentor-LGU to the municipalities of Canaman, Bombon and Magarao. Other LGUs who expressed their intent to adopt the same mechanism include the towns of Camaligan, Minalabac, Milaor, San Fernando and Tinambac- all shared a history of severe typhoon damages, landslide and flooding. (MAL/LSM-PIA5/Camarines Sur)
NAGA CITY, Oct. 9 (PIA)--- The successful implementation of eco-based disaster risk reduction project Calabanga town in Camarines Sur has been now being replicated in the neighboring municipalities of Magarao, Bombon and Magarao while others located along the Bicol River Basin are also mulling to adopt the same measures.
Calabanga has successfully projected the effective practice of disaster risk reduction by pursuing an eco-based approach through propagation of the mangrove plantation in Barangay Pagao, this town.to lessen the harsh impact of catastrophes besetting their villages and disaster prone coastal barangays,
CARE Netherlands representative and DRR advisor Celso Dulce Jr. said that the effective practice of risk reduction has attracted other local government units to share the same goal regardless of their political affiliations and come up with a unified effort to provide their community with ample protection from disasters.
This was also the positive remarks aired by European Union Head of Delegation Guy Ledoux after visiting Calabanga last week to check on the status of the implementation of the Scale-up, Build-up (SUBU) project being implemented by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) through its disaster preparedness ECHO (DIPECHO).
DIPECHO, which started in 1996, aims at improving the capacities of at-risk communities to prepare for and shield themselves from natural disasters. Calabanga was one of its recipients in its SUBU project which aims to strengthen local alliances and enjoin them to work together to create a bigger leap in combatting the ill effects of disaster.
Ledoux complimented the local government unit and members of the community for recently incorporating disaster risk reduction in the municipality’s comprehensive development plan.
“I would also like to commend our local leaders for ensuring that disaster risk reduction programming has survived the leadership change occasioned by the recent elections,” Ledoux added.
The town of Calabanga is now being headed by newly-elected mayor Eduardo Severo after former Mayor Evelyn Yu finished her term last May elections.
Mayor Eduardo Severo is also thankful that the European Union has continued to give its support to their town by ensuring that the project is properly implemented and by providing their people with necessary trainings to sustain the needs and demands of the program.
“With support from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department since 2007, the time when the Disaster Risk Reduction project also started in Calabanga, we expanded coverage to a few coastal barangays and by 2011, we have already covered some upland barangays after realizing that the lowland is affected by problems besetting the upland area,” Severo added.
After the project ended in 2011, a Food Facility project , which complimented the DRR project was implemented from 2009 until 2011. A Php24M budget was allocated by EU for the said purpose.
EU is happy to note that their efforts were not wasted. Calabanga is currently serving as mentor-LGU to the municipalities of Canaman, Bombon and Magarao. Other LGUs who expressed their intent to adopt the same mechanism include the towns of Camaligan, Minalabac, Milaor, San Fernando and Tinambac- all shared a history of severe typhoon damages, landslide and flooding. (MAL/LSM-PIA5/Camarines Sur)
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