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Press Release - Poe: Rightsize bureaucracy, pave way for disaster resilience department

Press Release Poe: Rightsize bureaucracy, pave way for disaster resilience department Sen. Grace Poe renewed her call to rationalize government structures and processes to pave the way for the creation of the Department of Disaster Resilience. Poe issued the reminder as the typhoon season begins and Taal Volcano acts up amid the continuing threat of the pandemic. The situation of our vulnerable countrymen becomes more difficult in the face of calamities amid the pandemic. We must not lose time to efficiently plan and collaborate on disaster risk mitigation and management, said Poe, who earlier filed Senate Bill 124 which seeks to create the Department of Disaster Resilience and Emergency Assistance and Management.

Poe pushes gov t rightsizing to allow creation of Department of Disaster Resilience

Published July 12, 2021, 12:16 PM Senator Grace Poe has supported calls for the rightsizing of the Philippines’ bureacracy to pave the way for the creation of the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR). Residents of Barangays Agoncillo, Boso-boso in Laurel, Batangas are forced to flee their homes on July 4, 2021, as Taal Volcano remains under Alert Level 3 due to continuous ‘magmatic unrest’. (ALI VICOY/MANILA BULLETIN) Poe reiterated her appeal for the establishment of the proposed DDR, noting Taal Volcano’s eruptions, expected typhoons and the persisting COVID-19 pandemic in the country. “The situation of our vulnerable countrymen becomes more difficult in the face of calamities amid the pandemic. We must not lose time to efficiently plan and collaborate on disaster risk mitigation and management,” Poe said in a statement.

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