UN-HABITAT Jumpstarts Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment in Olongapo City
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As part of the project Strengthening Philippine City Capacities to Address Climate Change Impacts, the UN-Habitat has identified Olongapo City as one of its pilot LGUs. To this effect, Olongapo City, DILG Region III and UN-HABITAT-Philippines represented by Mayor James Gordon, Jr., Dir. Florida M. Dijan and Ms. Maria Adelaida M. Manonong, respectively, forged a partnership for the purpose of undertaking a Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment and mainstreaming its result into local plans of the city, particularly its Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) and Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP).
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Senator Legarda Calls on Local Leaders to Participate in Building a Resilient Central Luzon through the Collaboration Workshop for the Pampanga River Basin
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In an effort to reduce losses and casualties brought by natural disasters, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) through the Local Government Academy (LGA) have partnered with the Agencia Española de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) and Senator Loren Legarda conducted the “Regional Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: A Collaboration Workshop for the Pampanga River Basin” last June 07, 2012 at the Oxford Hotel, Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga.
DILG Starts Coaching Session on Managing Replication Inception Workshop of Bulacan Province's SHINE Project
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The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has started its coaching session on managing Replication Inception Workshop (RIW) in the province of Bulacan’s School Hydrological and Information Network (SHINE) project.
Said activity was conducted on June 4-5, 2012 at the Malolos Resort Club Royale, Malolos City, Bulacan. It was attended by majority of the members of the Project Shine and one participant from PAGASA and one each Provincial/Regional GOFAR Focal Person. The resource persons were from the BLGD, LGOO VII Susita Bulawit and LGOO V Gemma Macatangay.
DILG Region III, in coordination with EMB-DENR Region III, initiated a Seminar-Workshop on Solid Waste Management Plan Formulation for Field Implementors held on May 8-11, 2012 at Maharajah Hotel, Angeles City. The activity was aimed to create or organize a pool of experts who would assist the LGUs in the region to come up with a Solid Waste Management Plan that conforms with the standard of the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC). It was attended by a total of forty (40) participants from DILG, EMB-DENR, DOH and DPWH.
The Department of the Interior and Local Government Region 3 had conducted a three-day Training of Trainers on the Implementation of the Anti-Red Tape Act- Report Card Survey (ARTA-RCS) at Maharajah Hotel, Angeles City. The training was aimed to capacitate DILG Provincial and City teams to ensure the effective administration and encoding of the report card survey instruments at all local government units in their respective area of jurisdiction.
