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Investing in Climate and Disaster Resilience: Focus on Water Governance and Security – CCARPH in Iloilo City Investing in Climate and Disaster Resilience: Focus on Water Governance and Security – CCARPH in Iloilo City ILOILO CITY - The Coastal Cities at Risk flooding) and water governance as the key Observatory. Furthermore, the gathering Philippines (CCARPH) team co-organized subject explored in the session. brought together stakeholders to establish a convergence meeting-cum-workshop for a more coherent and mutually-enriching resilience entitled “Investing in Climate and These engagements, such as inception productive engagement of CCARPH-NRC- Disaster Resilience: Focus on Water meetings and coordination meetings, MO-UPV on resilience with the Iloilo City Governance and Security” in Richmonde inform recent El Niño response of Iloilo City. Government and its stakeholders. Hotel Iloilo last 23 to 24 May 2019. As a result, this workshop gave emphasis CCARPH, Ateneo de Manila University on addressing water governance and Various data needs for the Manila (ADMU), National Resilience Council insecurity for resilience. Observatory’s CDRA Tool were also raised (NRC), and the Manila Observatory (MO) as part of the discussion. jointly hosted the event with the City The meeting identified resilience issues Government of Iloilo, the University of the relevant to the City and re-examined global, The event was attended by various public Philippines in the Visayas (UPV), and other national, and local mandates, that will help and private partners of the Iloilo City stakeholders. local officials introduce and explain the Resilience Team such as the City imperative of a resilience agenda to the Engineer’s Office, Department of Education Last year, CCARPH’s initial engagements incoming local administration. This was in Iloilo, Philippine Call Center Institute with the Government Local Disaster Risk made possible through the use of resilience Iloilo, Information Services Office, and the Reduction and Management Council of scorecards and the Climate and Disaster City Environment and Natural Resources Iloilo City identified water (drought and Risk Assessment (CDRA) Tool of Manila Office, among others. CCARPH | SEPTEMBER 2019 1 Pasig City’s Mayor Vico Sotto visits the CCARPH Sagip exhibit PASIG CITY – On June 14, 2019, CCARPH welcomed (then) Mayor-elect Vico Sotto to the Sagip exhibit entitled, “SAGIP: An Exhibition on Makeshift Disaster Intervention Technology.” The mayor visited the Sagip exhibit after his interview in Ateneo de Manila University’s Radyo Katipunan entitled, “ALL KAPS, ATENEO LEVEL UP” with Noel Ferrer and 2019 Ateneo Loyola Schools Valedictorian Hyacenth Bendana. CCARPH is coordinating with Pasig City as it is in the process of serving as the testbed for its project outputs: The Systems Thinking Tools, the City Resilience Suites of Systems Thinking Tools, and the Systems-Dynamics Lens as well as the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. The incoming mayor ran a campaign focused relentlessly on issues relevant to his stakeholders. The CCARPH team hopes to continue their work with the Pasig City Government under his term. CCARPH’s Tour Pasig City DRRMO Office and Courtesy Call to Hon. Sotto PASIG CITY - Representatives from Coastal Cities at Risk in the Philippines (CCARPH) met with Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto and Pasig City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management head Mr. Bryant Wong last July 19, 2019. The team, consisting of representatives from the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE), the Systems Systems Dynamics / Systems Thinking (SD/ST) Tools, and the Ateneo Innovation Center (AIC) toured the Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office and were oriented about the city’s current tools and CCARPH | SEPTEMBER 2019 2 technologies to continue their work with the Pasig City Government under his term. The team also paid a courtesy call to Hon. Sotto once the tour was concluded. Through this, CCARPH hopes to work with Pasig. City representatives to craft a science- informed, gender-sensitive and socially inclusive resilience plan for the City that will be the model for other cities in Metro Manila and the country. CCARPH and Pasig City are in the process of crafting a Partnership Agreement for the sharing of technologies and the collection of data. The meeting is a follow-up of Mr. Bryant Wong’s visit to the CCARPH project and SAGIP exhibit last July 11, 2019 where he assessed the makeshift technologies that may be shared with Pasig City. Naga City Mayor Legacion signed Partnership Agreement with CCARPH NAGA CITY – Last July 16, 2019, the Coastal Cities at Risk in the Philippines (CCARPH) signed a Partnership Agreement with newly-elected Mayor Nelson S. Legacion of Naga City. He also delegated Mr. Renne Gumba, Executive Officer of Naga City Resilience Council as the key person for this partnership. During the signing, Mayor Legacion reiterated on his priority for disaster risk reduction towards a resilient Naga City. Present in the meeting are Dr. Emma Porio (Project Leader of CCARPH), Ms. Ma. Antonia Yulo Loyzaga (President of National Resilience Council/NRC), Ms. Malu Erni (Executive Director of NRC), and Drs. Celine Vicente and Laurice Jamero (Manila Observatory). Representatives from the Naga City Local Government consist of Mayor Nelson Legacion, Mr. Renne Gumba, and Ms. Joy San Carlos (Naga City Resilience Council), Mr. Wilfredo Prilles (City Planning and Development Office), and Mr. Alec Francis Santos (City Tourism Office). The multi-stakeholder partnership between Naga City Local Government, CCARPH, Ateneo de Manila University, Ateneo de Naga University, National Resilience Council and Manila Observatory is geared towards creating a science-informed, socially inclusive resilient plan for the city. CCARPH | SEPTEMBER 2019 3 5G Systems for Inclusion, Resilience and Sustainability as hosted by CCARPH QUEZON CITY - The academic and private sector came together for the “5G Systems for Creativity and Innovation Hub. Inclusion, Resilience and Sustainability” Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 5G Communications Systems and applications Signing between the Ateneo de Manila are set to launch globally throughout this year. University and PLDT-SMART. This MOU PLDT-Smart and NOKIA are cooperating with signing signaled the launching of the First the Ateneo de Manila University community and University Campus 5G Testbed in the its network of partners to develop 5G use cases Philippines. and business models that focus on the human and social aspects of this advanced Fr. Jose T. Villarin, S.J., President of the Ateneo communications technology platform. de Manila University and Coastal Cities at Risk in the Philippines (CCARPH) Project Holder, During the signing event, Nokia, SMART and and Manny V. Pangilinan, the CEO of SMART- Ateneo exhibited and demonstrated use cases PLDT, led the signing of the MOU. Fr. Nemesio for remote education, sustainable agriculture Que, S.J. (Ateneo Vice President for and air quality monitoring, remote health care Administration) and Dr. Maria Luz Vilches and water provisioning, resilient (Loyola Schools Vice President) were witnesses communications, and other applications. These of the signing along with their counterparts from demonstrations showed a context for SMART-PLDT, Mr. Eric R. Alberto (Chief technology adoption and use that challenge Finance Officer) and Mr. Jovy Hernandez current advanced systems platforms. Through (Senior Vice President). this, 5G Communications leveraged its strengths to create solutions that promote The signing was held last April 25, 3:30 pm to inclusion, enhance the resilience of 4:30 pm at the third floor of the Eduardo Aboitiz communities to disasters and to encourage Sandbox Zone in the Arete Hub of the Ateneo sustainable development practices. de Manila University. The event was hosted by the Department of Electronics, Computer, and The collaborative NOKIA and PLDT-SMART Communications Engineering (ECCE), Coastal exhibit ran from April 25 (Thursday) to 26 Cities at Risk in the Philippines (CCARPH), the (Friday), 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Aboitiz Ateneo Innovation Center (AIC), and the Arete Sandbox Zone. CCARPH | SEPTEMBER 2019 4 CCARPH Participation in the Megacities at Risk in the Philippines Conference MAKATI CITY - Metro Manila is one megacity which serves as the economic capital of the country, yet is exposed to multiple risks and resides along various active fault lines. In this context, the event “Megacities at Risk in the Philippines” was created. Last April 25, Local Government (DILG), the National 2019, the conference entitled, “Megacities at Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Risk: Engineering Resilience to Seismic and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Hazards” held its conference at the Manila Polo Experts from Metro Manila, Tokyo Metropolitan Club. The Coastal Cities at Risk in the area, Taipei and San Francisco were present to Philippines (CCARPH) and the Ateneo share their knowledge and experience on this Innovation Center (AIC) were the topic. Members of local business organizations, representatives of the Ateneo de Manila foreign chambers, regional organizations University for this event. (APEC Business Advisory Council, US-ASEAN Business Council, ASEAN Business Advisory The “Megacities at Risk” conference and Council), multilateral organizations (World workshop was hosted by the Carlos P. Romulo Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Foundation and the National Resilience Council Office for Disaster Risk Reduction), civil society (NRC). It is co-chaired by Mr. Hans Sy (SM Prime organizations, and the academe (Ateneo de Holdings)
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