@CivilDefensePH Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo, Quezon City, Philippines (+6302) 9115061 - 65 www.ocd.gov.ph Gazette-Vol1-2021.indd 1-2 17/08/2021 1:49:49 PM Photo by cottonbro from Pexels EDITOR’S NOTE NDRRMC publishes National DRRM 4 Framework and Plan 2020-2030 NDRRMC, WB beef up disaster rehab, The world continues to change as various tumultuous events happen. The usual serving of 5 launches Ready to Rebuild Program for hazard events grew due to the complications of climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic LGUs also upset not just world economies but the normal workings of society here in the home front. Much task has been given to the office of civil defense to assist the country bear the OCD ramps up COVID-19 testing; challenges of disaster risk reduction and the pandemic. 6 distributes antigen test kits to NCR+ To honor public trust and the agency’s mission, OCD painstakingly continued the effort to attain ISO certification, alongside the rigors (and limitations) of the pandemic situation. Various sectors across PH join 1st ISO certification is a rigorous process undertaken by both public and private organizations 7 Quarter online NSED around the globe to meet international standards. OCD gathers inputs on NSTP IRR Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, OCD institutionalized its Total Quality Management revision, holds public consultation / Why System (TQMS). Training courses and workshops for employees were organized with 8 disaster happen? Demystifying common the Development Academy of the Philippines. OCD’s QMS Manual and Quality System misconceptions Procedures, Formulation of Functional Quality Objectives, Risk Registers, Risk Control Plans, Quality Operating Procedures, and Quality System forms even went through enhancement. 10 OCD is now ISO 9001:2015 Certified On February 16, 2021, OCD’s labors were rewarded. It received its ISO 9001:2015 certification from TUV Rheinland Philippines, Inc. after passing the two stages of certification audits. Join us on Viber; Mahalagang Paalala 12 Ngayong Tag-ulan; NDRRMC Monitoring By implementing the ISO quality management standard, OCD will be able to ensure Dashboard the quality and effectiveness of its processes and services in its quest for performance excellence in administering the country’s comprehensive national civil defense and DRRM 13 Events@Central program. TABLE OF The growing responsibilities of OCD will be undertaken with renewed vigor because of this certification. Quality public service is assured. 14 Across The Nation With this significant step accomplished, OCD continues to affirm its sincere desire to scale CONTENTS up service improvements in the service of the Filipino people, to realize its mission of building a safer, climate change adaptive and disaster resilient Philippines. Gazette-Vol1-2021.indd 3-4 17/08/2021 1:49:51 PM The Office of Civil Defense Official Gazette 2021 The Office of Civil Defense Official Gazette 2021 NDRRMC, WB beef up disaster rehab, launches Ready to Rebuild Program for LGUs By: World Bank, Mark Cashean Timbal original state but stretches all the way until we make NDRRMC all communities more prepared for any eventuality,” The National Disaster Risk Reduction and added Sec. Lorenzana during the media launch of the publishes Management Council (NDRRMC), in partnership with Training Program. National the World Bank (WB) launched the Ready to Rebuild program on March 4, 2021 via teleconference. The training, which will employ experiential learning, DRRM Representatives from local chief executives across the will be delivered online to at least 100 LGUs for 500 country, NDRRMC member-agencies, representatives Framework from the private sector and media partners joined this activity. local chief executives and technical staff. It will be and Plan composed of 16 half-day sessions spread across five “The Ready to Rebuild Program is the perfect weeks scheduled in April, June, August, and October 2020-2030 opportunity for us to capacitate ourselves more 2021. to better serve our constituencies, empower our By: Samantha C. Tebrio communities against the calamities and disasters, and “We expect those who are participating in the enable ourselves to save lives and livelihoods,” said Ready to Rebuild Program to have better grasp National Defense Secretary and NDRRMC Chairman and appreciation of each crucial step towards Delfin Lorenzana. preparedness. By doing so, they can be counted upon to fully deliver when the need arises which is The Ready to Rebuild Program, developed by the very certain in a calamity-prone country like ours,” Office of Civil Defense (OCD) with support from the added Sec. Lorenzana. World Bank, aims to increase the capacity of local The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Sharing the same vision on reducing vulnerabilities government units (LGUs) and their technical staff in A total of 170 participants from 31 local government Management Council (NDRRMC) launched the and enhancing resilience towards sustainable post-disaster recovery. This includes developing local units joined the first batch of the Ready to Rebuild: updated NDRRM Plan 2020-2030 and is now development, the plan also establishes policy pre-disaster baseline data needed for rehabilitation Disaster Rehabilition and Recovery (R2R) program accessible via online. coherence through its alignment with United Nations and recovery planning, local disaster risk financing which started on April 20, 2021 and concluded on Sustainable Development Goals, Sendai Framework strategy to guide the financing of recovery, and draft May 1, 2021. The updated NDRRMP targets twenty-three (23) for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), Paris Agreement, local rehabilitation and recovery program which outcomes, fifty (50) outputs and two-hundred-six Asia Regional Plan for Implementation of the can be updated by LGUs based on the impacts of The Ready to Rebuild Program was developed from (206) activities which will be reviewed and assessed SFDRR 2015-2030, ASEAN Agreement on Disaster disasters. the Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery Planning in three separate review timelines during its Management and Emergency Response, Ambisyon Guide (RRPG) approved by NDRRMC in March 2019. implementation. Natin 2040, Philippine Development Plan 2017- “Our roles do not end with the last drop of the The National Economic and Development Authority 2022, National Climate Change Action Plan, National rainfall, last tremor of an earthquake, or the last (NEDA), as the Council Vice-Chair for Disaster Led by the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), the 10- Security Strategy, Agenda, among others. household evacuated to safety. It does not even end Rehabilitation and Recovery, developed the Guide year NDRRMP went through consultations among upon the restoration of affected communities to their with technical assistance from the World Bank. NDRRMC member agencies, Regional Disaster The NDRRMP 2020-2030 is pursuant to the mandate Reduction and Management Councils (RDDRMC), of Republic Act 10121 otherwise known as the The RRPG is intended to help craft local recovery Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management “Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management plans and implement them faster and with build Offices (LDRRMOs), Civil Society Organizations Act of 2010”. back better standards. It drew lessons from previous (CSOs), the academe, private sector, development disasters and incorporated global good practices, partners, humanitarian assistance actors and other The NDRRMP 2020-2030 was approved by the particularly in the area of disaster rehabilitation and stakeholders at various levels to ensure a whole-of- NDRRMC during the 4th Quarter Emergency Full recovery. It is also the first country-specific guide for society and whole-of-government approach in the Council Meeting held on October 30, 2020. both natural and human-induced disasters that is development of the plan. adopted for national and local levels. The copy of NDRRMP 2020-2030 can be accessed The updated NDRRMP establishes linkage between through https://ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/ The second batch of the R2R program will disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM), article/4147/NDRRMP-Pre-Publication-Copy-v2.pdf. commence on June 1, 2021 and the third batch is climate change adaptation (CCA), and human security on August 3, 2021. by focusing on climate and disaster risks. 4 5 Gazette-Vol1-2021.indd 5-6 17/08/2021 1:49:52 PM The Office of Civil Defense Official Gazette 2021 The Office of Civil Defense Official Gazette 2021 OCD ramps up COVID-19 testing, distributes Various sectors across PH join antigen test kits to NCR+ 1st Quarter online NSED By: Samantha C. Tebrio By: Samantha C. Tebrio Seventy four (74) hospitals, local government units, Stakeholders from different government offices, and several government agencies in Metro Manila academe, Non-Governmental Organizations and and nearby provinces received the rapid antigen kits Civil Society organizations, and the public across the procured by the Office of Civil Defense to ramp up country joined the First Quarter Online Nationwide the COVID-19 testing capacity of the country. Simultaneous Earthquake Drill led by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council As of May 12, 2021, 460,300 test kits were distributed through the Office of Civil Defense on March 11, to 74 health facilities, LGUs, and several government 2021. offices in the National Capital Region, Central Luzon, and CALABARZON. “Napakahalaga ng inyong patuloy na suporta at kooperasyon sa ating layunin na pagtibayin ang Resolution