At least two government officials have expressed apprehension with the proposed creation of a separate department that would address natural and man-made calamities.
“What they have is emergency management agency. Because it’s in the function of emergency management wherein we have the urgency to consolidate all the efforts regarding emergency management of the different governments,” he pointed out during a joint hearing in the Senate on Monday.
“So the question is, do we need a department for disaster risk reduction management? I think that’s very very overwhelming. We might have problem with the capacity of the department to function all those responsibilities…” Jalad further said. Even if a new department is created, it could not still perform the other functions such as the preparation and mitigation that are being undertaken by other agencies, Secretary of Eduardo Del Rosario also said during the hearing.
While the OCD is mandated to undertake disaster management, Del Rosario noted that the mandate for preparation is given to the Department of Interior and Local Government while prevention and mitigation is given to the Department of Science and Technology.“I think what we need is really to reinforce the OCD so that it can be more adaptive to the response and the rehabilitation aspect given the budget that would capacitate the office to implement the rehabilitation projects,” he said.
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