Local Devolution and Disaster Risk Reduction Management Program
Country: Philippines
City:
Key Stakeholders and PartnersPhilippines' Department of the Interior and Local Government, Agence Francaise de Developpment
CDIA SupportUS$ 212,000
Expected Downstream Financing$280 million (AFD)
Infrastructure sectorsMulti-sector
CDIA priority impact areasClimate Change Mitigation and Adaptation; Good Governance
Key City Development Issues
The Philippines is vulnerable to a range of disasters, including typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. About 74% of the population is vulnerable to natural disasters and 60% of the country’s total land area is exposed to multiple hazards (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, 2017). The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), the agency responsible for overseeing local government units (LGUs) and coordinating disaster preparedness, has been implementing capacity building programs aimed at increasing the resilience of LGUs against natural hazards and disasters. In preparation for the devolution of the DRRM functions to LGUs set in 2022, DILG was planning to formulate a program for strengthening the capacities of LGUs to fully assume the devolved functions.
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Expected Development Impacts
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Key City informationThe Philippines is an island archipelago consisting of 7,641 islands and is highly vulnerable to severe natural disasters, heightened in the last decade by climate change. It sits astride the typhoon belt, and as such the country frequently experiences extreme flooding, storm surges, tsunamis and landslides. Also, because the country is situated on the western fringes of the Pacific Ring of Fire, it experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity. According to the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), close to 74% of the population is vulnerable to natural disasters and 60% of total land area is exposed to multiple hazards.
The country’s territorial jurisdictions of local government units (LGUs) consists of 18 administrative regions, 81 provinces, 33 urbanized cities, 1,489 municipalities, and 42,036 barangays. Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (LDRRM) funds are pegged at 5% of internal revenue allocations (IRA). This will be augmented following a recent Supreme Court ruling appropriating bigger IRA transfer to local governments starting 2022.
