CAMARINES Sur 2nd District Rep. LRay Villafuerte called on his fellow lawmakers to approve the bill seeking the creation of the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR).
“The increasingly calamitous impact of climate-induced violent weather, as best demonstrated in the record devastation wrought by the unprecedented streak of six tropical cyclones that struck the Philippines in rapid succession in less than a month, should prompt the 19th Congress to act before the end of its third and final regular session on a proposed law creating the DDR,” he said.
Currently, the government’s programs on disaster preparedness, disaster operations, and post-disaster recovery and rehabilitation were being overseen by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, which is led by the Office of Civil Defense under the Department of National Defense.
Under the measure, the DDR would be the principal government office performing the three functions, said Villafuerte, a co-author of the bill.
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