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Making the Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan BDRRMP) disability-inclusive
Collection of relevant information on persons with disabilities increases LGU’s potential to develop and strengthen the sector’s capacities to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the effects of disaster .
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More specifically, data collected can be used during capacity building activities in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, particularly during the Community Risk Assessments (CRA). It can also be used to further develop certain risk assessment tools, like the Elements-at-Risk tool, which determines the resources, capacities, and vulnerabilities of a community. Information collected from the CRA process is the foundation of a community’s disaster risk reduction and management plans.
The more comprehensive the data on persons with disability are, the more likely an LGU is able to produce and implement local development and DRRM plans that cater to the specific needs and concerns of the sector, further boosting the community’s over-all resilience and reducing its disaster risk. Part of the Quality Assurance System developed by the Local Government Academy (LGA) is a Simplified BDRRMP Template that could guide barangay DRRM committees in crafting their BDRRMPs. In this chapter, we’ll look at the Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (BDRRMP) and identify where the responses from the IDMS tool could be useful. The standard tool endorsed by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) that could be used to measure the quality of a BDRRMP is the Quality Assessment Tool (QAT). It is mandated by the Philippine DRRM Law – RA 10121 – for use by LGUs to enhance their plans and integrate the concerns of women, children, older persons, persons with disability, and ethnic minorities.
Putting emphasis on persons with disability, the QAT focuses on nine (9) Key Elements which contains Quality Benchmarks (QBs) with specific sets of required Criteria and Sub-criteria that should be reflected in the BDRRM Plan.
