Localizing Disaster Risk Reduction

Creation of awareness among people living in disaster-prone areas of the imminent risk they face and how best to respond when it occurs can be done through a broad range of avenues to enhance local people?s confidence and empower them to act when faced with adversity. This enables and fosters increased participation among the local community to tackle the effects of the disaster. This study focused in determining the level of performance in the implementation of the programs of the Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Committee (BDRRMC) in Barangay San Miguel, Compostela, Compostela Valle, Philippines for C.Y. 2015. The Community has been awarded as the Best Implementer in disaster risk reduction management in CY 2015. The result captures the interest of the researchers to substantiate the result from the community. This is a descriptive survey method utilizing a survey questionnaire administered to randomly selected respondents from the barangay. The result reveals that there was a high level of performance of the BDRRMC in the implementation of the disaster risk reduction management plan due to the sustained efforts of the local officials and the community residents. It is recommended that such ?disaster preparedness? culture should be continued through regular and strict monitoring in the implementation of the DRRM plan and initiate more efforts relating to disaster preparedness contingency plans and measures.