DISASTER PREVENTION AND MITIGATION

Goal:
1. Reduce the severity of human and material damage caused by
typhoon through minimizing vulnerabilities and exposure such as
enhancing capabilities of communities to cope and be prepared on
times when a seasonal typhoon occurs.
2. Ensure that certain human actions or natural phenomena do not
Department of Science and result in disaster or emergency by providing seminars or
Technology symposiums that could raise citizen’s overall awareness.

 Analyze and understand local risks, address the possible hazards

and invest long-term safety precautions to secure prevention.
 Instigate and publicize proactive measures to be taken before a
natural phenomenon especially a typhoon occurs.
 Strategies should be effective and specifically inclined towards
reducing the financial costs to communities like barangays.
 Evaluate disaster potentials related to typhoons such as the
common flooding and suggesting effective solutions to prevent
further damage towards the community.
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

Goal:
1. Evade the impeding hazards to be brought by the periodic entrance
of typhoon in the Philippine Area of Responsibility through proper
information dissemination that will lessen vulnerabilities and will
effectuate a disaster ready community.
2. Establish and strengthen the capacities of communities to
anticipate, cope and recover from the negative impacts
accompanied by typhoon.
Department of the Interior
and Local Government
 Reduce cases of casualties in times of typhoons.
 Increase level of awareness of the community to threats and
impacts of hazards by creating and implementing a Typhoon
Preparedness Plan understood by everyone.
 Equip the community with necessary skills and knowledge to cope
up with typhoons as such that instilling to the citizens what a
typhoon is starting from from its causes until to the effects it can
induce depending on the intensity.
 Make citizens aware on how to interpret weather reports from
PAG-ASA such as the warning signals and classifications.
 DISASTER RESPONSE

Goal:
1. Provide life preservation through gathering knowledge about the
affected area or community and understand the needs of its
population upon facing a seasonal typhoon.
2. Meet the basic subsistence needs of affected population based in
Department of Social acceptable standards during or immediately after a typhoon.
Welfare and Development
 Preventing an increase to number of death and injured.
 Supply the basic needs of the affected community.
 Implement an evacuation if needed.
 Assessing the flood risk potential in the area.
 Monitoring the place and status of the typhoon.
 Ensuring that population would not be inclined to health hazards.
 Enhance capacities of communities to reduce their own risks.

DISASTER REHABILITATION AND RECOVERY

Goal:
1. Restore and improve the community’s own facilities that are
affected by the typhoon as well as restoration of the physical and
ecological integrity of the affected ecosystem.
2. Reestablish livelihood and living conditions and organization
National Economic and capacities of affected communities, and reduce disaster risks in
Development Authority accordance with the “build back better” principle.

 Restore people’s means of livelihood to continue the progressing

financial and economic activities.
 Restore shelter, critical facilities and other installations.
 Reconstruct infrastructure and other public utilities.
 Assist those people who suffered from the effects of the typhoon
through physical and psychological rehabilitation.