Statement read by Marieta Lupig Alcid (third from the right in the photo), ACCORD Executive Director, during the press conference for “Ugnayan at Bahaginan: Building Resilience through Good Governance.” A national conference that brought together ACCORD’s partner LGUs across the…
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Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Ecosystem Management & Restoration in Development Plans In this session, Atty. Rico Rentuza, former Mayor of St. Bernard municipality, will discuss how mainstreaming DRR in local development plans help protect the…
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Linking emergency response to development through mainstreaming DRR, CCA, and EMR The LGUs of Malinao, Aklan and La Paz, Leyte were severely affected by Typhoon Yolanda. They will share how DRR/CCA/EMR are mainstreamed in the emergency response and recovery…
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Public awareness and advocacy as tools for transforming high-risk communities towards a culture of safety This session will discuss the importance of raising public awareness on risks and how to address them to effect changes, transform values, attitude and…
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Reducing risks by implementing small scale mitigation and strengthening livelihood The session will discuss how communities in Tadian and Talacogon are using their capacities in implementing small-scale mitigation and livelihood actions as part of the measures to reduce disaster…
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Building the foundation of a resilient community through participatory and inclusive risk assessment Community risk assessment is an important first step to building resilient communities. It is a participatory, multi-disciplinary process that looks into the probability of hazards occurring…
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The concurrent sessions of the Conference aim to provide insights on how resilience is built. Sharing their experiences are representatives from barangay and municipal LGUs, the DILG and DRR practitioners.
This year's iteration of the LGU Conference will not be possible without the generous support of several partners, who believe in the same goal as ACCORD: building resilient communities.
The conference will feature both plenary and concurrent sessions where community-based experiences and learnings in DRR-CCA-EMR will be presented. A press briefing will be held at lunch time where media professionals will have a chance to clarify further points with…
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As part of their further immersion into the work of building community resilience, participants will visit areas in Camarines Sur to see how DRR-CCA-EMR projects are implemented. It is hoped that armed with this context, participants can better synthesize lessons…
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