Environmental Awareness - NSTP

Recognizing National Issues and Concern
Chapter 6
ENVIRONMENTAL
AWARENESS
National Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Plan
The Philippines’ National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan
(NDRRMP) is a road map on how DRRM shall contribute to gender-responsive
and rights-based sustainable development. It shall promote inclusive growth,
build the adaptive capacities of communities, increase the resilience of
vulnerable sectors, and optimize disaster mitigation opportunities with the end
in view of promoting people’s welfare and security.
NDRRMP
Thematic Areas
Disaster Prevention
and Mitigation
• Disaster Prevention- The outright avoidance of adverse impacts of hazards
and related disasters. In expresses the concept and intention to completely avoid
potential adverse impacts through action take in advance such as construction of
dams or embankments that eliminate flood risk, land-use regulation that do not
permit any settlement in high-risk zone and seismic engineering designs that
ensure the survival and function of a critical building in any likely earthquake.
Disaster Prevention
and Mitigation
• Disaster Mitigation- the lessening or limitation of the adverse impacts of hazards
and relate disasters. Mitigation measures encompass engineering techniques and
hazard-resilient construction a well as improved environmental policies and public
awareness.
Disaster Preparedness
The knowledge and capacities develop by governments, professions response and
recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond
to, an recover from impacts of likely, imminent or current hazard events or conditions. In
carried out within the context of DRRM and aims to build the capacities needed to
efficiently manage a types of emergencies achieve orderly transitions from response to
sustained recovery. Preparedness based on a sound analysis of DRR and good linkages
with early warning systems and includes such activities as contingency planning,
stockpiling of equipment and supplies, the development of arrangement for coordination,
evacuation and public information and associated training and field exercises. These
must be supported by formal, institutional, legal and budgetary capacities.
Disaster Response
The provision of emergency services and public assistance during or
immediately after a disaster in order to save lives, reduce negative health
impacts, ensure public safety and meet the basic subsistence needs of the
people affected. Disaster response of predominantly focused on
immediate and short term needs and is sometimes called “disaster relief”
Disaster Rehabilitation
and Recovery
• Rehabilitation- Measures that ensure the ability of affected communities and/or
areas to restore their normal level of functioning by rebuilding livelihood and
damage infrastructure and increasing the communities’ organizational capacity.
• Post Disaster Recovery- The restoration and improvement where appropriate,

of facilities, livelihood and living conditions of disaster-affected communities,
including efforts to reduce disaster risk factors, in accordance with the principle of
“build back better”.
Youth’s Contribution in Disaster Management
All able-bodied young citizen of the land should get themselves involved in civic,
actions in the community where s/he lives and should be ready to render assistance
anywhere and anytime their service are needed. More than anything else, it is
everybody’s moral obligation to assist her/his countrymen in distress.
In times of natural calamities or manmade disorders, the youth should be willing and
ready to render direct assistance to calamity victims in any of the following areas:
• Sorting, loading and distribution of relief goods

• Administering first aid treatment on victims
• Comforting and assisting in their rehabilitation
• Disseminating information to concerned individual
• Surveying of affected families and areas
• Monitoring and liaising work
• Civic action activities like environmental and ecological protection, river and
watershed control projects and tree planting/forest fire control
Likewise, the concerned youth development agencies should establish coordination and linkages to be
set up before, during and after every disaster. The leadership in youth development agencies in order to
succeed in their chosen endeavor should:
a. Plan the chosen activities ahead before any calamity strikes. Join or participate in training exercise on
disaster and relief operations.
b. See to it that the resources that are available could meet the needs of chosen activities.
c. Coordinate all activities properly with the City, Provincial and Municipal Coordinator Councils.
d. Organize the groups. Assign the members’ responsibilities which they feel they can properly handle.
e. Work as a team. Coordinate efforts with other organizations (NGO, PO, LGU or religious
organizations.

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• Post Disaster Recovery- The restoration and improvement where appropriate,

• Sorting, loading and distribution of relief goods

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