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TRAINING OF TRAINERS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CBEWS FOR TSUNAMI OF NORTHERN SAMAR

A set of training of trainers of the establishment of community-based early warning system was held from May 5 to 8 in Northern Samar. The activity is under the National Disaster Coordinating Councils project entitled “Hazard Mapping of Effective Community-Based Disaster Risk Management” (READY) Project. This training aims to train trainers, mostly municipal planning officers and municipal disaster action officers on how to develop tsunami-resilient communities through the establishment of community-based early warning systems. The trainers were taught how to prepare tsunami evacuation plans from tsunami hazard maps culminating is the conduct of actual tsunami drills. Two sites were selected as pilot sites of the conduct of the tsunami drills: Barangay Barobaybay, Lavezares and Barangay Cabatuan, Palapag.

TRAINING, SEMINAR WORKSHOPS FOR CAPACITY BUILDING ON THE USE OF SATELLITE DATA FOR DISASTER RISK MAN

The coordinators of the project -Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)- requested to meet Philippine government agencies who are involved in disaster risk management to assess the capability and needs of each agency which is essential for the design of a remote sensing training for disaster management, mapping and space agencies. This two-year project will be implemented in close collaboration with the Sub-Committee on Space Application (SCOSA) of the ASEAN Committee of Science and Technology (COST).