REPUBLIC ACT No.

10121

AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE PHILIPPINE DISASTER RISK

REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROVIDING
FOR THE NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND
MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK AND INSTITUTIONALIZING
THE NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND
MANAGEMENT PLAN, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
 POLICY
• (a) Uphold the people's constitutional rights to
life and property by addressing the root
causes of vulnerabilities to disasters,
strengthening the country's institutional
capacity for disaster risk reduction and
management and building the resilience of
local communities to disasters including
climate change impacts; (11 POLICIES)
• (g) Mainstream disaster risk reduction and
climate change in development processes
such as policy formulation, socioeconomic
development planning, budgeting, and
governance, particularly in the areas of
environment, agriculture, water, energy,
health, education, poverty reduction, land-use
and urban planning, and public infrastructure
and housing, among others;
 Ensure that disaster risk reduction and
climate change measures are gender
responsive, sensitive to indigenous know
ledge systems, and respectful of human
rights;
• Enhance and implement a program
where humanitarian aid workers,
communities, health professionals,
government aid agencies, donors, and
the media are educated and trained on
how they can actively support
breastfeeding before and during a
disaster and/or an emergency; and
• Provide maximum care, assistance and
services to individuals and families
affected by disaster, implement
emergency rehabilitation projects to
lessen the impact of disaster, and
facilitate resumption of normal social
and economic activities.
 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Climate Change - a change in climate that
can‘t be identified by changes in the mean
and/or variability of its properties and that
persists for an extended period typically
decades or longer, whether due to natural
variability or as a result of human activity,
• Disaster - a serious disruption of the
functioning of a community or a society
involving widespread human, material,
economic or environmental losses and
impacts, which exceeds the ability of the
affected community or society to cope using
its own resources. Disasters are often
described as a result of the combination of:
the exposure to a hazard;
• the conditions of vulnerability that are present;
and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or
cope with the potential negative consequences,
Disaster impacts may include loss of life, injury,
disease and other negative effects on human,
physical, mental and social well-being, together
with damage to property, destruction of assets,
loss of services, Social and economic disruption
and environmental degradation.
• Disaster Risk - the potential disaster losses in
lives, health status, livelihood, assets and
services, which could occur to a particular
community or a Society over some specified
future time period.
• Hazard - a dangerous phenomenon,
substance, human activity or condition that
may cause loss of life, injury or other health
impacts, property damage, loss of livelihood
and services, social and economic disruption,
or environmental damage.
• Resilience - the ability of a system, community
or society exposed to hazards to resist,
absorb, accommodate and recover from the
effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient
manner, including through the preservation and
restoration of its essential basic structures and
functions.
• Risk - the combination of the probability of an
event and its negative consequences.
• Vulnerable and Marginalized Groups - those
that face higher exposure to disaster risk and
poverty including, but not limited to, women,
children, elderly, differently-abled people, and
ethnic minorities.
 SEC. 11. Organization at the Local Government Level.

The existing Provincial, City, and Municipal Disaster

Coordinating Councils shall henceforth be known as
the
Provincial, City, and Municipal Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Councils. The Barangay
Disaster Coordinating Councils shall cease to exist
and its powers and functions shall henceforth be
assumed by the existing Barangay Development
Councils (BDCs) which shall serve as the LDRRMCs
m every
barangay.
• SEC. 12. Local Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Office (LDRRMO). - (a) There shall be
established an LDRRMO in every province, city and
municipality, and a Barangay Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Committee (BDRRMC)
in every ·barangay which shall be responsible for
setting the direction, development, implementation
and coordination of disaster risk management
programs within their territorial jurisdiction.
• The LDRRMO shall be under the office of the
governor, city or municipal mayor, and the punong
barangay in case of the BDRRMC. The LDRRMOs
shall be initially organized and composed of a
DRRMO to be assisted by three (3) staff responsible
for: (1) administration and training; (2) research and
planning; and (3) operations and warning. The
LDRRMOs and the BDRRMCs shall organize, train
and directly supervise the local emergency
response teams and the ACDVs.
• The provincial, city and municipal DRRMOs or
BDRRMCs shall perform the following
functions with. impartiality given the
emerging challenges brought by disasters of
our times:
 FUNCTIONS
• (1) Design, program, and coordinate disaster
r1sk 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 nsk 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 multl-hazard early warnmg 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 operationahze
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 this Act and legislative
provisions
relevant to the purpose of this 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 Act;
• (23) Establish a Provincial /City/
Municipal/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.
• The BDRRMC shall be a regular committee of the
existing BDC and shall be subject thereto. The punong
barangay shall facilitate and ensure the participation of at
least two (2) CSO representatives from existing and active
community-based people's organizations representing the
most
vulnerable and marginalized groups in the barangay.
• SEC. 13. Accreditation, Mobilization, and
Protection of
Disaster Volunteers and National Service Reserve
Corps, CSOs and the Private Sector.
• - The government agencies, CSOs, private sector and LGUs
may mobilize individuals or organized volunteers to
augment their respective personnel complement and
logistical requirements in the delivery of disaster risk
reduction programs and activities. The agencies, CSOs,
private sector, and LGUs concerned shall take full
responsibility for the enhancement, welfare and protection
of volunteers, and shall submit the list of volunteers to the
OCD, through the LDRRMOs, for accreditation and inclusion
in the database of community disaster volunteers. A
national roster of ACDVs, National Service Reserve
Corps, CSOs and the private sector shall be maintained by
the OCD through the LDRRMOs. Accreditation shall be
done at the municipal or city level. Mobilization of
volunteers shall be in accordance with the guidelines to be
formulated by the NDRRMC consistent with the provisions
of this Act. Any volunteer who incurs death or injury while
engaged in any of the activities defined under this Act shall
be entitled to compensatory benefits and individual
personnel accident insurance as may be defined under the
guidelines.