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Experts urged authorities to deal with Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) at the local level to help ensure that the strategies in place would be implemented more effectively.
Dr. Nimfa L. Bracamonte, project leader of the study on Disaster Management Towards Climate Change Adaptation
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 21) The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council does not have the funding to grant hazard pay to local rescuers who have been responding to the pandemic and the recent calamities that hit the country, the agency s head admitted.
During the Laging Handa briefing on Monday, NDRRMC executive director Usec. Ricardo Jalad responded to the appeal of 24 officers of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office in Northern Samar to provide them and other workers on the ground with compensatory benefits for responding to various hazards. Ang budgetary requirement na iyan, sa ngayon, ay hindi po covered ng National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund, Jalad said.
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