MDRRMO Palapag

As provided for in Section 12 of Republic Act 10121 (Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010):

There shall be established a Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (LDRRMO) in every municipality, which shall be responsible for setting the direction, development, implementation and coordination of disaster risk management programs within their territorial jurisdiction.

The MDRRMO shall be under the office of the municipal mayor. It shall be initially organized and composed of a DRRM Officer to be assisted by 3 staff responsible for administration and training, research and planning, and operations and warning. The MDRRMO shall organize, train and directly supervise the local emergency response teams and community disaster volunteers.

The MDRRMO shall perform the following functions with impartiality given the emerging challenges brought by disasters of our times:

(1) Design, program, and coordinate DRRM activities consistent with the National Council's standards and guidelines;

(2) Facilitate and support risk assessments and contingency planning activities at the local level;

(3) Consolidate local disaster risk information which includes natural hazards, vulnerabilities, and climate change risks, and maintain a local risk map;

(4) Organize and conduct training, orientation, and knowledge management activities on DRRM at the local level;

(5) Operate a multi-hazard early warning system, linked to disaster risk reduction to provide accurate and timely advice to national or local emergency response organizations and to the general public, through diverse mass media, particularly radio, landline communications, and technologies for communication within rural communities;

(6) Formulate and implement a comprehensive and integrated MDRRM Plan in accordance with the national, regional and provincial framework, and policies on disaster risk reduction in close coordination with the local development councils;

(7) Prepare and submit to the local sanggunian through the MDRRMC and the MDC the annual MDRRM Plan and budget, the proposed programming of the MDRRM Fund, other dedicated DRRM resources, and other regular funding source/s and budgetary support of the MDRRMO;

(8) Conduct continuous disaster monitoring and mobilize instrumentalities and entities of the LGU, CSOs, private groups and organized volunteers, to utilize their facilities and resources for the protection and preservation of life and properties during emergencies in accordance with existing policies and procedures;

(9) Identify, assess and manage the hazards, vulnerabilities and risks that may occur in their locality;

(10) Disseminate information and raise public awareness about those hazards, vulnerabilities and risks, their nature, effects, early warning signs and counter-measures;

(11) Identify and implement cost-effective risk reduction measures/strategies;

(12) Maintain a database of human resource, equipment, directories, and location of critical infrastructures and their capacities such as hospitals and evacuation centers;

(13) Develop, strengthen and operationalize mechanisms for partnership or networking with the private sector, CSOs, and volunteer groups;

(14) Take all necessary steps on a continuing basis to maintain, provide, or arrange the provision of, or to otherwise make available, suitably-trained and competent personnel for effective civil defense and DRRM in its area;

(15) Organize, train, equip and supervise the local emergency response teams and the accredited community disaster volunteers (ACDVs), ensuring that humanitarian aid workers are equipped with basic skills to assist mothers to breastfeed;

(16) Respond to and manage the adverse effects of emergencies and carry out recovery activities in the affected area, ensuring that there is an efficient mechanism for immediate delivery of food, shelter and medical supplies for immediate delivery of food, shelter and medical supplies for women and children, endeavor to create a special place where internally-displaced mothers can find help with breastfeeding, feed and care for their babies and give support to each other;

(17) Within its area, promote and raise public awareness of and compliance with this Act and legislative provisions relevant to the purpose of this Act;

(18) Serve as the secretariat and executive arm of the MDRRMC;

(19) Coordinate other DRRM activities;

(20) Establish linkage/network with other LGUs for DRR and emergency response purposes;

(21) Recommend through the MDRRMC the enactment of local ordinances consistent with the requirements of this Act;

(22) Implement policies, approved plans and programs of the MDRRMC consistent with the policies and guidelines laid down in this Act;

(23) Establish a Municipal DRRM Operations Center;

(24) Prepare and submit, through the MDRRMC and the MDC, the report on the utilization of the MDRRMF and other dedicated DRRM resources to the local Commission on Audit, copy furnished the regional director of the Office of Civil Defense and the Local Government Operations Officer of the DILG; and

(25) Act on other matters that may be authorized by the MDRRMC.