DILG sets 2-day training on Geographic Information System in Pagadian City

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Oct. 15 (PNA) -– The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has scheduled a two-day training of trainers (ToT) on Geographic Information System (GIS) for Disaster Preparedness and Response in this city.

DILG Regional Director Paisal Abutazil said Wednesday the ToT is aimed to develop additional technical people to assist the barangays in making their Barangay Hazard Maps.

Abutazil said the ToT will be held next week from October 21-23 in this city and will be attended by the Municipal Planning and Development Coordinators and Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM) staffs of 11 towns coming from this province, Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga Sibugay.

DRRM Regional Focal Person Teresita Catalbas said the 11 towns are the following: Liloy, Salug, Gutalac and Leon Postigo, Zamboanga del Norte; Dumingag, Tukuran, Kumalarang, and Vincenzo Sagun, Zamboanga del Sur; and, Payao, Titay, and Siay, Zamboanga Sibugay.

Catalbas said they comprise the second batch of Local Government Units (LGUs) to undergo ToT. The first batch comprised also of 11 LGUs and had undergone ToT from August 18-20 in this city.

“The Local Government Units (LGUs), being at the forefront of disasters, play a very crucial role in disaster preparedness and management and thus, the prime movers at the local levels have to be fully capacitated and equipped with the technical know-how in all aspects of DRRM,” Abutazil said.

Catalbas said the training on GIS is important for participants to appreciate the use of hazard maps linked to planning as it is also prerequisite to Local Climate Change Adaptation Plan (LCCAP) set by December 2014. (PNA)
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