Cagayan De Oro City
Philippines

Training on the use of the Climate Change Exposure Database (ClimEx.DB)

Organizer(s) Project Climate Twin Phoenix
Date
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The Climate Change Commission (CCC), through Project Climate Twin Phoenix, the City Government of Iligan, and the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) will be conducting a training on the use of the Climate Change Exposure Database (ClimEx.DB), which is a tool designed to help communities and cities in planning their land use and development while incorporating preventive measures to adapt to the effects of climate change in their localities.

The training will be held on December 11-13 in Cagayan De Oro City for the city of Iligan. Iligan City is one of the areas greatly devastated by tropical storm Sendong. Iligan’s long-term recovery is being supported by Project Climate Twin Phoenix, a project implemented by the Climate Change Commission (CCC) and with support and technical assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Australian Government.

The training on the implementation, installation, maintenance, and operation of the exposure database, dubbed as ClimEx.DB, is an ongoing initiative targeted to address the institutional capacity and individual competency gaps on climate/disaster risk management of the project’s local partners.

The ClimEx.DB provides geo-referenced data on population, buildings, infrastructure and economic activities in the city, which are considered high-risk for flooding or which are predisposed to the impacts of climate change. It also includes an inventory of geohazard-compliant evacuation sites and spaces that can be used as evacuation areas, an inventory of existing resources for early recovery and rehabilitations, and a resource of existing policies and ordinances pertaining to disaster planning, response, rehabilitation and recovery, among others.

Data contained in ClimEx.DB were initially used in earlier trainings and workshops conducted for the members of the city’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO), especially in its formulation of the Flood Contingency Plan.

The ClimEx.DB training is targeted to city planners and stakeholders involved in disaster risk management and implementation with the aim of improving land use planning in coastal zones, as well as in strengthening their technical knowledge in assessing their own climate/disaster risks and in identifying the location of their most vulnerable populations and infrastructure. The three-day activity will involve lectures, laboratory exercises, and field work in Iligan City.

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