BDRRMC
BDRRMC
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WHEREAS, the BDRRMC shall organize, train and directly supervise, the local emergency response
teams and the ACDVs (Accredited Community Volunteers);
WHEREAS, Section 11 of RA 10121 stipulates that the Barangay Development Council (BDC)
shall serve as the Local Disaster Risk Reduction Management Committee (LDRRMC) in every barangay;
WHEREAS, Section 12 (d) of RA 10121 states that the BDRRMC shall be a regular committee
of the existing BDC and shall be subject thereto;
WHEREAS, the BDRRMC shall convene the local council once every three (3) months or as necessary.
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1. Design, program, and coordinate disaster risk reduction and management activities
consistent with the National Council's standards and guidelines;
2. Facilitate and support risk assessments and contingency planning activities at the local level;
3. Consolidate local disaster risk information which includes natural hazards,
vulnerabilities, and climate change risks, and maintain a local risk map;
4. Organize and conduct training, orientation, and knowledge management activities on
disaster risk reduction and management at the local level;
5. Operate a multi-hazard early warning system, linked to disaster risk reduction to
provide accurate and timely advice to national or local emergency response organizations and to the
general public, through diverse mass media, particularly radio, landline communications, and
technologies for communication within rural communities;
6. Formulate and implement a comprehensive and integrated LDRRMP in accordance with
the national, regional and provincial framework, and policies on disaster risk reduction in close
coordination with the local development councils (LDCs);
7. Prepare and submit to the local sanggunian through the LDRRMC and the LDC the annual
LDRRMO Plan and budget, the proposed programming of the LDRRMF, other dedicated
disaster risk reduction and management resources, and other regular funding source/s and
budgetary support of the LDRRMO/BDRRMC;
8. Conduct continuous disaster monitoring and mobilize instrumentalities and entities of the LGUs,
CSOs, private groups and organized volunteers, to utilize their facilities
and resources for the protection and preservation of life and properties during
emergencies in accordance with existing policies and procedures;
9. Identify, assess, and manage the hazards, vulnerabilities and risks that may occur in their locality;
10. Disseminate information and raise public awareness about those hazards,
vulnerabilities and risks, their nature, effects, early warning signs and counter- measures;
11. Identify and implement cost-effective risk reduction measures/strategies;
12. Maintain a database of human resource, equipment, directories, and location of critical
infrastructures and their capacities such as hospitals and evacuation centers;
13. Develop, strengthen and operationalize mechanisms for partnership or networking with the private
sector, CSOs, and volunteer groups;
14. Take all necessary steps on a continuing basis to maintain, provide, or arrange the provision of,
or to otherwise make available, suitably-trained and competent
personnel for effective civil defense and disaster risk reduction and management in its area;
15. Organize, train, equip and supervise the local emergency response teams and the
ACDV s, ensuring that humanitarian aid workers are equipped with basic skills to assist mothers to
breastfeed;
16. Respond to and manage the adverse effects of emergencies and carry out
recovery activities in the affected area, ensuring that there is an efficient mechanism for
immediate delivery of food, shelter and medical supplies for women and children, endeavor to create
a special place where internally-displaced mothers can find help with breastfeeding, feed and care for
their babies and give support to each other;
17. Within its area, promote and raise public awareness of and compliance with RA
10121 and legislative provisions relevant to the purpose of the said Act;
18. Serve as the secretariat and executive arm of the LDRRMC;
19. Coordinate other disaster risk reduction and management activities;
20. Establish linkage/network with other LGUs for disaster risk reduction and emergency response
purposes;
21. Recommend through the LDRRMC the enactment of local ordinances consistent
with the requirements of this Act;
22. Implement policies, approved plans and programs of the LDRRMC consistent with the policies
and guidelines laid down in this RA 10121;
23. Establish a Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Operations Center;
24. Prepare and submit, through the LDRRMC and the LDC, the report on the utilization of the
LDRRMF and other dedicated disaster risk reduction and management
resources to the local Commission on Audit (COA), copy furnished the regional
director of the OCD and the Local Government Operations Officer of the DILG; and
25. Act on other matters that may be authorized by the LDRRMC.
Section 3. Funding. Section 21of RA 10121 provides that the present Local Calamity Fund shall
henceforth be known as the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (LDRRMF). Not less
than five percent (5%) of the estimated revenue from regular sources shall be set aside as the LDRRMF to
support disaster risk management activities such as, but not limited to, pre-disaster preparedness programs
including training, purchasing life-saving rescue equipment, supplies and medicines, for post-disaster
activities, and for the payment of premiums on calamity insurance. The LDRRMC shall monitor and
evaluate the use and disbursement of the LDRRMF based on the LDRRM Plan as incorporated in the local
development plans and annual work and financial plan. Upon the recommendation of the LDRRMO and
approval of the sanggunian concerned, the LDRRMC may transfer the said fund to support disaster
risk reduction work of other LDRRMCs which are declared under state of calamity. Of the amount
appropriated for LDRRMF, thirty percent (30%) shall be allocated as Quick Response Fund (QRF) or stand-
by fund for relief and recovery programs in order that situation and living conditions of people In
communities or areas stricken by disasters, calamities, epidemics, or complex emergencies, may be
normalized as quickly as possible. Unexpended LDRRMF shall accrue to a special trust fund solely for
the purpose of supporting disaster risk reduction and management activities of the LDRRMCs within
the next five (5) years. Any such amount still not fully utilized after five (5) years shall revert back to
the general fund and will be available for other social services to be identified by the local sanggunian.
Let copies hereof be furnished to all concerned for information, reference, and guidance.
Punong Barangay