Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act (DRRM Law)

National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council (NDRRMC)

formerly known as the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), is a working group of various government, nongovernment, civil sector and private sector organizations of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines established by Republic Act 10121 of 2009

RA 10121

Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 (DRRM Act)

Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 (DRRM Act)

A law which transforms the Philippines' disaster management system from disaster relief and response towards disaster risk reduction (DRR)

National Disaster Risk Management Plan (NDRMP)

being formulated, developed, and implemented as the master plan that will provide the strategies, organization, tasks of concerned agencies and local government units, and other guidelines in dealing with disasters or emergencies

Section 5.

National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

Disaster Risk Assessment

A qualitative or quantitative approach to determine the nature and extent of disaster risk by analyzing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of exposure and vulnerability that together could harm people, property, services, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend.

Knowledge Management

Gaining the correct knowledge at the appropriate time and place

Vulnerability

The characteristics determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets or systems to the impacts of hazards.

Risk

Hazard x Exposure x Vulnerability

Physical factors

e.g. poor design and construction of buildings, unregulated land use planning, etc.

Social factors

e.g. poverty and inequality, marginalization, social exclusion and discrimination by gender, social status, disability and age (amongst other factors) psychological factors, etc.

Economic factors

e.g. the uninsured informal sector, vulnerable rural livelihoods, dependence on single industries, globalization of business and supply chains, etc.

Environmental factors

e.g. poor environmental management, overconsumption of natural resources, decline of risk regulating ecosystem services, climate change, etc.

Disaster Preparedness

An essential element of the disaster management program

Disaster response

Predominantly focused on immediate and short-term needs and is sometimes called disaster relief.

Emergency services

are a critical set of specialized agencies that have specific responsibilities in serving and protecting people and property in emergency and disaster situations

Typhoon Yolanda or Haiyan

The strongest typhoon and worst recorded disaster in the Philippines

Philippines

Considered to be the fourth most disaster prone country worldwide with a total of 274 disasters that affected an estimated 130 million people from 1995 to 2015.

Tsunami and Earthquake

No. 1 deadliest natural disasters in the Philippines