Formulation of guidelines for integration of CCA-DRRM [Climate Change Adaptation-Disaster Risk Reduction and Management] in local development planning and mainstreaming climate change research in policy formulation in selected LGUs
Date
2023
Abstract
The Philippines has been and continuous to be severely affected by climate-related disasters. Many of these are taken to clearly manifest the negative impacts of changing climatic conditions that pose significant threats to numerous sectors of our society, with the harvest tolls on our socio-economic and environmental sectors. Such disastrous events highlight the need for stronger, site appropriate adaptation measures to help communities cope with continuously aggravated climate-induced hazards. With this in mind, the project's main goal is to determine how to better assist Local Government Units in formulating science-based, Climate Change Adaptation-Disaster Risk Reduction-sensitive development plans. In order to accomplish the project objectives, seminars and workshops were conducted in the municipalities of Bay, Nagcarlan and Los Baños, towns in the Laguna Province to assess the communities' capacities to draft climate and disaster-resilient development plans. Lectures on geophysical, climatologic and other hazards were also delivered and discussions on the importance of developing science-based plans were also conducted. Out of these workshops, it was realized that there is a high level of awareness on CCA-DRR issues among surveyed LGUs and communities. However, there is lack of sytematic and scientific protocol on the collection and processing of historical data for use in the process of CCA-DRRM integration in local development plans. There is also already a wealth of manuals, guidebooks and other literature developed to assist local government in integrating CCA-DRR into local development plans. Most materials, however, are not readily available to the local planners, hence,the need to educate them on how where to acquire these resources from. Those who manage to obtain copies of these materials also typically consider the literature to be highly technical and too difficult or complicated to understand. In instances were sufficient technical expertise is available to guide the LGU, financing issues prove to be the next difficult hurdle. Hence, the project aimed to address the need to simplify the guidelines in order to make it easier for the local development planners to work with the already prepared guidebooks. Through the analyses of integration pathways, guidelines that can easily understood and replicated by most local government planners were developed. Tangible outputs from the project include a simplified guideline on mainstreaming CCA-DRMM in Comprehensive Land Use Plan of LGUs that can easily be understood and replicated. A prototype digital program, SiDPlan (Simplified Development Planning Guide) was also designed to provide a basic flowchart-type application that will guide non-technical groups on stock-taking activities for strategizing CCA-DRRM. Other materials include a comparative analysis, initiatives and difficulties experienced by LGUs in mainstreaming CCA-DRRM into local development planning.
Language
English
Document Type
Article
Recommended citation
Faustino-Eslava, D. V.; Ancog, R. C.; Coladilla, J.; and Balba, A. L., "Formulation of guidelines for integration of CCA-DRRM [Climate Change Adaptation-Disaster Risk Reduction and Management] in local development planning and mainstreaming climate change research in policy formulation in selected LGUs" (2023). Report. 1063.
https://www.ukdr.uplb.edu.ph/reports/1063
Pages /Collation
109 leaves
En – AGROVOC descriptors
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; CLIMATIC CHANGE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; DEVELOPMENT PLANS; LAND USE