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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
City is second nationwide in disaster management
ILOILO City narrowly missed winning the top award in the highly urbanized city category of the 2006 National Search for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance and contented itself with a second place finish after eventual winner Makati City.
The city earlier beat Bacolod City in the regional level and automatically qualified to compete in the national competition against the rest of the highly-urbanized cities in the country.
Area Coordinating Center chief Jose Papa said the competition is about the capability of local government units to provide medical and technical support services to communities, agencies and institutions in need of rescue operations.
The search is a yearly event spearheaded by the Office of the Civil Defense and the Department of National Defense.
The search, according to Papa, also provides official recognition to outstanding performance of Disaster Coordinating Councils, private volunteer organizations and government emergency responders as major stakeholders and partners in the implementation of disaster management programs and activities.
Papa explained that each of the participants were judged based on recorded documents, on the spot evaluation and interview of the four phases of disaster management, namely mitigation, preparedness, response and rehabilitation.
It was the national validating team composed of representatives from Phivolcs, NAPC VDC and the League of Province of the Philippines which judged the competition.
Olongapo City copped third place behind Makati City and Iloilo City.
(August 9, 2006 issue)
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