Pagadian City:
Local governments around the province which are identified as “most vulnerable”
to disasters and calamity in Zamboanga Peninsula are made to undergo a training
workshop on the formulation of their Local Climate Change Action Plan (LCCAP),
a new release forwarded to Misamis News Digest said.
The
LGUs in the region consist of 5 cities and 7 towns: Zamboanga, Dipolog,
Dapitan, Pagadian and Isabela as well as the towns of Bayog, Molave,
Margosatubig of Zambosur, Diplahan of Zambo Sibugay and Imelda, Siocon and
Labason of Zambo Norte.
The
participants are the City or Municipal Risk Reduction Management Officer,
Planning and Development Officer, Agriculturist or Social Welfare and Development
Officer, Environment and Natural Resource officer, Local Government Operations
Officer, Health Officer and SP Member on Environment from the said LGUs.
An
understanding on how vulnerability assessment helps in responding to challenges
will train and update respective ecological profile, formulate their LCCAP
which shall then be integrated in the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP).
Such
assessments will also become tools for informing the development of such
adaptation priorities and develop strategies to manage the impact of climate
change.
Experts
from PAGASA-DOST and MGB-DENR provided inputs and shared expertise on the said
training.