Dolores Hipolito (2nd from left), Project Manager IIIoftheUnified Project Management Office Flood Control Management cluster of the Department of Public Works and Highways duringthe Saturday News Forum inQuezon Cityon Feb. 3, 2023. (PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler) MANILA - The government has allocated PHP20 billion for the first phase of the Integrated Flood Resilience and Adaptation Project in three major river basins in the country. Dolores Hipolito, Project Manager III of the Unified Project Management Office Flood Control Management cluster of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), said the multi-billion-peso project aims to mitigate flood damage, reduce flood risks, and improve climate resilience in Abra, Ranao (Agus), and Tagum-Libuganon. "So unlike in the past, the focus of the DPWH is to provide structural measures or to construct these infrastructures. Here, we are looking at flood risk management. So this project includes three components: one compone
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Photo: This October 13, 2019 file photo shows part of Cagayan de Oro City, the regional center of Northern Mindnanao. (Cagayan de Oro City Facebook page)
DAVAO CITY The Bangsamoro government’s Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MILG) graduated 61 personnel in the first water search and rescue (Wasar) training it conducted since the Covid-19 pandemic, raising the number of its emergency responders. The Rapid Emergency Action on Disaster Incidence (READi) conducted the training of participants…
The last Plebiscite Committee leaves the distribution center in Buluan, Maguindanao for Tamontaka in Cotabato City a little past 6 a.m. on Monday as the first day of the plebiscite on the Bangsamoro Organic Law starts on Monday, January 21.
Today is #BangsamoroPlebiscite Day. Big day for everyone. Good luck to all. https://t.co/lBdPD90Ehb pic.twitter.com/0LQltCm1Ze
— COMELEC (@COMELEC) January 20, 2019
Commission on Elections spokesman James Jimenez said over the weekend that as high as 75 percent of the more than two million voters from Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), as well as the cities of Isabela in Basilan and Cotabato in Maguindanao are expected to go out and cast their votes.
A second plebiscite day is set for February 6 for areas in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte.