KALIBO, Aklan, April 28 (PIA) -- The municipality of Kalibo has put in place plans for disaster risk reduction management and in mitigating climate change as a result of a three-day orientation workshop held recently by the municipality.
The orientation-workshop was participated by various sectors of Kalibo, who helped outline plans to keep Kalibo’s constituents free from suffering grave effects of natural and man-made disasters and protect them from the ill-effects of climate change.
Kalibo Mayor William Lachica, who heads the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management (MDRRM) Council, said that with the plans in place, barangays will now be well-versed in utilizing their respective 5 percent calamity fund.
Lachica also expressed his belief that Kalibo is the first municipality to come up with such plans in accordance with RA 10121 and RA 9729 or the Climate Change Adaptation Act.
Meanwhile, the offices of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) through Municipal Local Government Operations Officer Maricel Bechayda, Civil Defense Office through Terence Toriano and Municipal Planning and Development Office through MPD Coordinator Marlo Villanueva pledged their commitment to assist in the finalization as well as on the implementation of the plans.
Based on their timetable, the submission and adaptation of the MDRRM Council of the final copies of the Contingency and Operational Plan and Climate Change Adaptation is on April 26 while reproduction of the copies is set today, April 27 and partial distribution of the copies on April 30 of this year. (JCM/VGV-PIA 6, Aklan)
- ReliefWeb
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