Tag: Department of Disaster Resilience
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Pia seeks unified agency to respond to disasters
Building on the country’s progress to respond to both natural and human-made calamities, Senator Pia S. Cayetano filed a bill seeking to merge the functions of different agencies involved in disaster risk reduction and management to form the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR). She said that while the current law (Philippine Disaster Reduction and Management…