A House Bill seeking the establishment of the Department of Disaster Resilience has been filed by Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez and Tingog Party-list Reps. Yedda Romualdez and Jude Acidre.
Under the bills, a DDR will be established to improve the national government’s capacity for disaster risk reduction and management and to reduce the vulnerabilities of sectors heavily-hit by natural disasters. On top of typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic activity, and other usual forms of natural disasters, the authors also included via Article II, Section 4 “Biological and Related Hazards, 1) Epidemic/Pandemic – viral, bacterial, parasitic, fungal, prion infectious diseases 2) Insect Infestation – grasshoppers/locusts,” under the mandate of the DDR.
Aside from departmental powers, the bill wants local government units to set aside at least five percent of their respective annual budgets to establish a local disaster resilience fund.
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