First Deep Dive Session:
From ridge to reef, from local to global

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Date: 22 June 2022 – 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. PHT
Moderator: Mr. Redmond Batario, CCJD
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85041653509
Venue: Grand Ballroom – Manuel’s Resort

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Session Objectives

• Discuss the national priorities on environmental management and disaster risk reduction from the perspective of national and regional agencies
• Tackle the communities’ strategies, experience and learning adapting both to climate change and disaster risks as well as the changing national and regional priorities
• Discuss facilitative policies and mechanisms that can support strengthen locally-led ecosystem-based adaptation and ecosystem-based DRR actions
• Focus on various lessons learnt and best practices in mainstreaming environmental protection and disaster risk reduction in local planning processes

Speakers:

• Localizing national targets, German R. Romano Jr., Forest Management Specialist II, Chief, Watershed Management Unit, DENR-9
• Salug Valley LGU CC-DRRM Strategies, For. Rocelo Navarro, MDRRMO
• SFDRR Targets and Local Implementation, Ms. Mayfourth Luneta, Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN)
• National support to local initiatives, Ms. Cheryl Leal, Acting Chief
  Disaster Risk Governance Division, Office of Civil Defense – PDPS

 

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 Locally-led initiatives in diversifying, strengthening, and protecting livelihoods have emerged in various provinces, municipalities, and even barangays that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and other natural hazards that frequent their areas. Many of these are in need of help from regional and national levels, not just in terms of economic boosts but also technical support, research, and promotion.

In this session, the speakers will be sharing initiatives that are not only building and gearing towards achieving resilient livelihoods but also local efforts that facilitate and support innovative strategies of communities to achieve food security amid worsening impacts of climate change.

Third Deep Dive Session:
Adapting to climate change and reducing
disaster risk through ecosystem approach

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Date: 24 June 2022 – 09:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PHT
Moderator: Ms. Jessica Dator-Bercilla
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86394244084
Venue: Grand Ballroom – Manuel’s Resort

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Session Objectives

• Share in the SSCBDA platform various initiatives, paradigm shifts, and good practices of different level of various sectors and different government levels that will be the source of learning to participants who experience similar hazards. After all, everything is connected to everything.
• Provide the glimpse of various ecosystem-based adaptation and risk reduction of communities who are experiencing complex hazards, such as being situated in a valley filled with large rivers, or being a coastal community that faces the threat of rising sea-level and extreme weather events.
• Share an alternative trajectory in terms of influencing legislations, policies, and governance toward more ecologically sound development toward sustainability

Speakers:

• Ecosystem-based Adaptation in a valley of rivers
  Salug Valley Communities:
  Mr. Noriben Jay Lubguban, Zamboanga Del Sur
  Ms. Imelda Villas, Zamboanga del Norte

• An award-winning ecosystem-based adaptation strategy
  Roberto “Ka Dodoy” Ballon, Kapunungan sa Gamay ng Mangingisda sa Concepcion, Kabasalan Zamboanga Sibugay

• Rights of Nature
  Candy Lachica Hidalgo, Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc.
   
• Global snippets from ADRRN

 

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Indeed, the heart of every preparedness is a well-adaptive, inclusive, and harmonized end-to-end Early Warning System. The Philippines has seen disasters that could have been avoided had communities been more capacitated and organized to develop, practice, and improve their EWS. For years, however, good practices have been shared, discussed, and even more improved while our technology gets more advanced to support the needs of communities.

In this session, case stories, good practices, and experience of our local and international partners on end-to-end EWS will be tackled and closely examined to further identify effective ingredients in formulating, implementing, and improving life-saving end-to-end early warning system.