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As super typhoon Karding batters the country with strong winds and torrential rainfall, Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Salceda thinks it’s high-time to establish a Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR).

Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has renewed his call for the passage of his twin measures establishing the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) and requiring the construction of evacuation centers following a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit Northern Luzon last Wednesday.

The powerful earthquake that rocked northern Luzon Wednesday, July 27 underscored the need for the immediate passage of the measure seeking to establish a Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR).

As the Philippines observes National Disaster Resilience Month, Senator Christopher “Bong” Go pushed for the establishment of evacuation centers across the country.

A House Bill (HB) seeking the establishment of the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) has been filed by Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez and Tingog Party-list Reps. Yedda Romualdez and Jude Acidre.

Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda is confident that the incoming Marcos administration will finally produce a disaster response-focused agency, or at the very least a close approximation of it.

Unacceptable. That’s how Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda described the growing number of casualties from typhoon “Agaton’s” recent hammering of the country’s central islands.

Senator Grace Poe has supported calls for the rightsizing of the Philippines’ bureacracy to pave the way for the creation of the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR).

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) announced Saturday, June 26, that it will unveil its three major health research projects under the disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation (DRR-CCA) program of its Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD).