Mission
General purpose government for the coordination and delivery of basic, regular and direct services including disaster risk reduction and environment protection, gender and development, youth, women and children and effective governance of its inhabitants.
Zero casualty as a result of increased capacities and less vulnerabilities.
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Institutionalization of the Municipal Disaster Management Office which is the implementing arm of the local DRRM programs and projects. Institutionalized through legislation.
-Geo-hazard maps are in place
-Installed coconets in landslide-prone slopes
-Flood early warning system (EWS) is in place and operational
-Installed operational landslide EWS and additional LEWS to be installed
-Communication equipment to all villages and primary stakeholders including education, security, rescue, relief, information, evacuation, engineering.
-Provision of information manuals in schools and public areas
-Inclusion of preparedness in school lectures
-Regular school drills
-Increased capacities in coping with disasters through livelihood opportunities, health and education.
-Installation of gabions at Lawigan River as soft-mitigation against flooding
-Community-Based disaster risk management in cooperation with the ASCEND project "Strengthening Assets and Capacities of Communities and Local Governments for Resilience to Disaster".
-Regular simultaneous community drills
-Tourism promotion as a means of providing local income opportunities for the townsfolk.
-Local tourism in the form of education tourism (best practices) since majority of the visitors in Saint Bernard are the local and international academe, government agencies, non-government organizations
-Strengthening of coastal and marine areas capacities of stakeholders
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.