Understanding local disaster risk reduction management for health planning process in select Eastern Samar municipalities

College

College of Liberal Arts

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2018

Abstract

This policy brief aims to describe and examine the current organizational structures, planning process, and capacity development of local government units (LGUs), as well as the support mechanism of the central and Region 8 offices of the Department of Health-Health Emergency Management Bureau as they relate to the development of the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in Health (DRRM-H) plans and mechanisms. It is a step toward framing a direction and mapping specific strategies to harmonize the planning process related to DRRM-H at the local level. This paper summarizes the findings and the policy indications presented in the commissioned policy research report on resilient local health systems2

and results of discussions

during the dialogue on resilient health systems3 .

The LGUs are, based on the Local Government Code (Republic Act 7160) and Philippine Disaster Reduction and Management Act (RA 10121), at the forefront when it comes to addressing health services and disaster preparedness. In

strengthening responsiveness of local health systems to address disaster- related health impact, this brief proposes interventions to address policy and

challenges related to operational and strategic planning and implementation of local DRRM-H interventions: • The local DRRM plan should be comprehensive and detailed to include health concerns. Thus, there is a need to develop a comprehensive DRRM-H training agenda and standardized training modules for municipal and barangay stakeholders based on development training and needs assessments and information from a national health human resource database given the disproportionate number of health workforce to the demand for health providers especially with the complexity brought about by disasters. • Monitoring and evaluation at the LGU level should be strengthened as a mechanism to ensure quality services in four thematic areas namely: (a) disaster prevention and mitigation; (b) disaster preparedness; (c) disaster response; and () disaster rehabilitation and recovery. Effective feedback mechanism should be in place so the results of this regular monitoring of Department of Health regional office can be used for enhanced information dissemination at the local level.

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Disciplines

Emergency and Disaster Management

Keywords

Hazard mitigation—Philippines—Samar Island; Health planning—Philippines—Samar Island

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