- To provide strategic direction and guidance to all DRRM

actors and partners (NGA, LGU, CSO, Private Sectors);

- strengthen disaster and climate risk governance by
clarifying the roles, accountabilities, strategies, and
activities of disaster risk reduction and management
(DRRM) stakeholders at all levels;
- strengthen linkages and interoperability of the DRRM
thematic pillars;
- ensure the convergence of and synergy between DRRM
and CCA; and
- contribute to the achievement and coherence of global,
regional, and national development and policy agenda.
1. Aligned with the sustainable development agenda.
2. Anchored on human rights
3. Established link of DRRM, CCA, and sustainable development
4. Ensure all hazards approach
5. Safeguard inclusivity as well as whole-ofgovernment and
whole-of-society approach
6. Guarantee local expression of risk
7. Promote evidence-based and progressive vulnerability
reduction strategies
8. Uphold responsive risk governance with strong political will,
commitment, and leadership
9. Promote community-based DRRM and development
10.Foster multi-stakeholder partnerships
6. Guarantee local expression of risk
7. Promote evidence-based and progressive vulnerability
reduction strategies
8. Uphold responsive risk governance with strong political will,
commitment, and leadership
9. Promote community-based DRRM and development
10.Foster multi-stakeholder partnerships
Disaster Prevention and Mitigation is about understanding risk
and ensuring that policies, plans and budget are risk-informed
and provide an enabling environment for sustained actions aimed
at addressing current and reducing future risks. It is about
access, use and application of science in risk reduction and
management work – from assessment to early warning actions.
Also, this thematic pillar is about the institutionalization of risk
financing mechanisms for both ex ante and ex post actions,
emphasizing the complementarity of resources to help strengthen
resilience.
The Geospatial Information Management and Analysis Project for Hazards and Risk
Assessment in the Philippines (GeoRisk Philippines) is a multi-agency initiative led by
the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), funded by the
Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and monitored by the Philippine
Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development
(PCIEERD). It is envisioned to be the Philippines’ central source of information for
accurate and efficient hazards and risk assessment to help the government increase
the nation’s resilience. In particular, it aims to provide protocols and platforms to
share hazards, exposure and risk information to help people, communities, local
governments, and national agencies prepare and plan on reducing risks from natural
hazards. It features the HazardHunterPH, which generates initial hazard assessments
in a selected location for seismic, volcanic, and hydro-meteorological hazards;
GeoAnalyticsPH, which generates summaries of hazards and risk assessment and
perform analysis and visualization of exposure and elements at risk; and the
FaultFinder, which may be used to determine the location of active faults in an area
and to measure the shortest distance between an active fault and a user’s current
location; among others.
Disaster Preparedness provides for key strategic actions that give importance
to community awareness and understanding, contingency planning, conduct
of local drills, competency building for survival and rescue, and the
development of needed disaster preparedness and response plans. In
preparing communities and governments for possible disasters, pre-
determined needs based on information available are crucial. Risk-related
information coming from the Prevention and Mitigation aspect is necessary in
order for preparedness activities to be responsive to the needs of the people
and situation on the ground. Also, policies, budget, and institutional
mechanisms established under the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation aspect
will be further enhanced through capacity building activities, development of
coordination mechanisms, among others.
Disaster Response provides for key actions that give importance to
activities during the actual disaster response operations such as needs
assessment, search and rescue, relief operations, and early recovery
activities. The activities identified below will be done either before the
actual response operations or during the disaster event. For those
activities that need to be completed prior to actual response
operations, they will be linked to activities earlier identified in the
preparedness aspect. However, to ensure that the proper response
“lens” is issued in doing said activities, they have been included in this
aspect. Overall, the success and realization of this priority area rely
heavily on the completion of the activities under both the prevention
and mitigation and preparedness aspects.
 The Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery aspect covers recovery efforts
related to employment and livelihoods, infrastructure and lifeline
facilities, and housing and resettlement to bring the affected area back
to normal as quickly as possible.

Operational Timelines
▪ Immediate Term (IT) Within 1 year after the occurrence of the disaster
▪ Short-term (ST) Within 1 to 3 years after the occurrence of the disaster
▪ Medium-term (MT) Within 3 to 6 years after the occurrence of the disaster
▪ Long-term (LT) Beyond 6 years after the occurrence of the disaster
- Addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability
- Linking environmental management to risk reduction and
resilience-building
- Availability of science-informed and evidencebased risk
map
- Access to data and knowledge management
- Research and technology
- End-to-end early warning and risk communication
mechanisms
- Capacity building
- Increased disaster preparedness and multisectoral
coordination
- Political will
- Financing
- Monitoring and evaluation