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Republic of the Philippines

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES at
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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS —— ~
First Regular Session REGISTRATION UNIT
INDEX SER’
HOUSE BILL no399 3 NICE

Introduced by Rep. Winston “Winnle”Castelo

EXPLANATORY NOTE

‘Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit) in 2014 was reported to have damaged P1.04 bilion worth of crops and farmlands in Bicol,
Western and Eastern Visayas, 55,850 hectares of farmlands and 56,090 metric tons of crops, infrastructure damage,
cost of damage to livestock sector of P809,550, other agr-fishery infrastructure and equipment of P29.993 million
excluding damage to government and private properties. Some 456,386 families or 2,086,562 people were affected
‘and 377,846 families or 1,699,041 individuals are staying in several evacuation centers or with relatives.

Natural disasters such as typhoons, storm surges, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions are bound to happen in significant
frequency as would necessitate a more definitive, purposive, and planned course of action on the part of the
government, at national, regional and local levels. It is already an incontrovertible geo-political given that the
Philippines is the most hit country in the world in terms of tropical cyclones, heavy rains and storms, tsunamis, and
the like.

Typhoon Yolanda, for another, a category five typhoon that struck central Philippines in November 2013, inflicted
severe damage on the social and economic fabric of the Visayas and the MIMAROPA region. The typhoon displaced
4.1 milion people and destroyed over half a milion houses. Around 8,000 people died or went missing. The loss of
capital and assets, and disruption in electricity and irigation services, have led to the collapse of local economies in
the severely affected areas.

‘These unfortunate events and their outcomes now call for the creation of Department of Disaster Management given
the country's vulnerability to a string of disasters as it stands in the path of yearly bevy of typhoons and tropical
cyclones. The Philippines has historically suffered from a high rate of natural disasters, but climate change is giving
rise to even more frequent and more forceful weather-related disasters. Severe storms have now become the “new
normal."

It is important to not that the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (NDRRMP) fulfils the
requirement of RA No. 10121 of 2010, which provides the legal basis for policies, plans and programs to deal with
disasters. The NORRMP covers four thematic areas, namely, (1) Disaster and Mitigation; (2) Disaster Preparedness;
(3) Disaster Response; and (4) Disaster Rehabilitation ‘and Recover, which correspond to the structure of the
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC). By law, the Office of Civil Defense
formulates. and implements the NDRRMP and ensures that the physical framework, social, economic and
environmental plans of communities, cities, municipalities and provinces are ‘consistent with such plan.

‘The NORRMP is consistent with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Framework (NORRMF),
which serves as ‘the principal guide to disaster risk reduction and management (RRM) efforts of the countty....”
‘The Framework envisions a country of "safer, adaptive and disaster resilient Filipino communities toward sustainable

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development." It conveys a paradigm shift from reactive to proactive DRRM wherein men and women have
increased their awareness and understanding of DRRM, with the end in view of increasing people's resilience and
decreasing their vulnerability,

In the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Pian 2041-2018, the NORRMP sets down the ex
‘outcomes, outputs, key activities, indicators, lead agencies, implementing partners and timelines under each of\the
four distinct yet mutually reinforcing thematic areas, In other words, the hereby éstablished from this institutiqnal
arrangement the now proposed Department of Disaster Management, hence this submission.

[tis all in this light that this humble measure is most earnestly sought for deliberati


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House BILL no, 8093

Introduced by Rep. Winston “Winnie”Castelo

AN ACT
CREATING THE DEPARTMENT OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT AS DISTINCT AND SEPARATE FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted in the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines in Congress
assembled:

SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the ‘Department of Disaster Management Act of 2016",

SEC. 2. The present office of Civil Defense and/or National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Council are hereby created to be known as the Department of Disaster Management, with distinct and separate
mandate from the Department of National Defense to camy out safer, adaptive and disaster resilient Filipino
‘communities towards sustainable development along the four thematic areas, namely: disaster preparedness,
disaster response, disaster prevention and mitigation, and disaster rehabilitation and recovery.

SEC. 3, As Office of Primary Responsibilty (OPR), the herein created Department of Disaster Management
shall issue appropriate rules, regulations, guidelines, and issuances to effectively carry out the implementation of this
Act.

SEC, 4, This Act shall take effect thity (30) days after its approval and publication in the Official Gazette
and in at least three (3) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,