The country’s overall effort to address climate change is set to get a boost with the completion of resilience roadmaps and the corresponding investment portfolios for risk resilience (IPRR) designed for 16 vulnerable areas in the Philippines.
The roadmaps and IPRR for 12 climate-vulnerable provinces and four major urban cities were turned over to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center under the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) last December 19 in Quezon City.
Developed under the Risk Resiliency Program (RRP) of the Cabinet Cluster on Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Disaster Risk Reduction, each roadmap with IPRR contains recommended actions to manage the risks and vulnerabilities in the climate-vulnerable areas in the form of specific resilience measures.
Key findings and relevant experiences were also presented by the study teams that conducted the risk assessments in the climate-vulnerable areas, during the turnover ceremony.
“These planning documents will definitely help inform both local and national investment programming, resulting in more efficient and climate-responsive programs that make better use of our limited resources,” said DENR Undersecretary for Finance, Information Systems and Climate Change Analiza Rebuelta-Teh.
The roadmaps were developed for the provinces of Siquijor, Eastern Samar, Northern Samar, North Cotabato, Maguindanao, Sulu, Lanao del Sur, Apayao, Kalinga, Ifugao, Mountain Province, Catanduanes, as well as the urban centers of Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, Metro Iloilo and Metro Davao.
This initiative is implemented by the NEDA-PPP Center and the DENR under the project “Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships in the Philippines” with support from the Asian Development Bank and the Government of the United Kingdom through its Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund.
Key officials who witnessed the turnover were DENR Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and International Affairs Jonas Leones; PPP Center Executive Director Cynthia Hernandez and Director Lerma Advincula; ADB’s urban climate change resilience specialist Dr. Ramon Abracosa; and Jacques Miel-Soliguin, Climate Change and Energy Attache of the British Embassy. ###
