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WHO WE ARE

The Coastal Cities at Risk 2 (CCAR2) in the Philippines project is a trans-disciplinary action research project of the Ateneo de Manila University and Manila Observatory which was launched last January 24, 2018. 

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WHAT WE DO

Augmenting Knowledge.

Enhancing Capacity.

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With the intention of augmenting the understanding of climate and disaster risk, the project aims  to:

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  • undertake new trans-disciplinary action research;

  • strengthening public-private partnerships of resilience scientists and practitioners;

  • strengthening public-private partnerships; and

  • informing the resilience plans of cities.

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WHY NAGA CITY

                        Various LGUs across the country were selected to become partners in this project. One of the LGU Partners of this project is the Naga City LGU. Even as it is identified as a city attaining  fast-paced economic development, Naga City is also regularly facing climate and weather-related hazards due to its geographical location along the alluvial plains of the Naga River and the Bicol River.   Among the hazards are typhoons, liquefaction, landslide and erosion, increase in temperature, and, intense rainfall-induced flooding among others. Factor in the poverty incidence estimates of NCSB as of 2012 reaching 15.7% or the CBMS survey conducted by the Naga City LGU in 2015 that showed a total of 10,872 households (33.4%) as vulnerable aspect. 

Resilient Local Government Systems Scorecard

National Resilience Council
RESILIENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS SCORECARD VERSION 1.0

    PREPARE   

The RA 10121 and UNISDR both define disaster preparedness as the "knowledge and capacities developed by government and disaster risk reduction organization, communities, and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from the impact of imminent or current disaster."

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The objective therefore of disaster preparedness is posed as a question by the NRC Scorecard. "How can we minimize the loss of lives and assets?" As such, the minimum requirements of the indicators for the sub-pillars of the local government systems focus on integrated risk assessment, data management, DDR plans, systems, and structures that have to be set  up, strengthened, maintained to ensure that the local government systems are ready to anticipate, respond to, and recover from the impact of the disaster resulting in minimal loss of lives and assets.

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"The NRC's PREPARE Thematic Area corresponds to the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, and Disaster Preparedness themes of the RA 10121."

 

  

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"The norm of about 20 tropical cyclones annually foming and/or crossing the Philippines Area of Responsibility can worsen in terms of number and/or strength due to climate change. The  impact of disasters can then increase in magnitude, not only due to climate change, but also because of rapid urbanization and environment degradation. These conditions are among the factors that placed the Philippines third in the 2016 World Risk Report among the 15 countries with the highest vulnerability due to high exposure to natural hazards, coupled with poor socio-economic conditions."

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"The essential consideration in developing and building resilience the ADAPT Thematic Area is therefore in the reduction of the LGU's exposure and vulnerability to current and/or future hazards to mitigate its disaster risk. The critical query is thus:"How can we improve existing systems to reduce exposure and vulnerability to current, actual, and future hazardous events in order to significantly reduce disaster risk?"

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The minimum requirements of the indicators therefore focus on the upgrading of data management, systems, structures, interventions and linkages to reduce exposure and vulnerability. The NRC's ADAPT Thematic Area corresponds to the Thematic Area #3 Response and #4 Rehabilitation and Recovery of the RA10121.

     ADAPT     

Climate change is seen to exacerbate the challenges posed by geo-physical, technological and human-induced hazards to governments, communities and individuals. But the critical finding of the IPCC or the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change is that humans are the main cause of the current global warming. Hence, the IPCC points out that "... the more human activities disrupt climate, the greater the risk of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system." With humans as the cause of the problem, humans are therefore also the source of solutions to the problem of climate change.

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The urgent focus of resilience building in the Transform Thematic Area is the improvement of existing systems so that in the aftermath of a disaster, the LGU together with the communities and stakeholders are enabled to "bounce forward" with improved, efficient and resilient systems and not just "bounce back" with repaired, restored systems. The critical query is thus, "How can we change or modify existing systems to achieve resilience?"

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The minimum requirements of the indicators focus on innovations in the data management, systems, structures, interventions and linkages to establish the resiliency of the local government systems.

 TRANSFORm 

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