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Web-based app launched to improve PH disaster response, rehab

Source(s): Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation
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Dubbed as PlanSmart Ready to Rebuild, NDRRMC Executive Director Raymundo B. Ferrer said it is also designed to help Local Government Units (LGU) to plan for disasters more efficiently and to build back better faster.

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Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Sec. Renato Solidum said the app speeds up the development of RRPs (rehabilitation and recovery plans) and supports evidence-based decision-making and planning for pre- and post-disaster events.

The app, which is an offshoot of the GeoRiskPH Integrated Platform developed by DOST and the Ready to Rebuild (R2R) Program led by the Office of Civil Defense, enables LGUs to autogenerate an RRP through the use of a pro-forma document template.

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LGU participants in the pilot run will include R2R Program graduates, those with existing GeoRiskPH Memorandum of Agreements with DOST-Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, and those located in areas that were identified by the Cabinet Cluster on Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation, and Disaster Risk Reduction as vulnerable to impacts of climate change and disasters.

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