BCARRD Conducts National Conference on
Climate
Change
The Bicol Consortium for Agriculture Resources
Research and Development (BCARRD) is taking the lead in initiating the
development and use of science and technologies to facilitate
rehabilitation, adaptation and coping strategies in the agriculture,
forestry and natural resources (AFNR) sector. The National Conference on
Climate Change Adaptation Science and Technologies for the AFNR Sector is
being conducted at Alicia Hotel, Legazpi City on October 21-23, 2009. The
conference theme “AFNR Sector Responding to Climate Change through Adaptive
S & T” was thoroughly discussed by the keynote speakers, Mr. Cedric Daep,
the Head of Albay Public Safety and Energy Management Office (APSEMO) and
Director Richard Juanillo, Deputy Director of PCARRD.
   
   
   
   
The objectives of the conference are the
following: (1) come up with an inventory of Philippine Climate Change
adaptive S&T; (2) provide venue for R&D practitioners for a discussion and
sharing of recent and present initiatives on climate change adaptive S&T;
and (3) document available climate change adaptive S&T for the AFNR sector.
Participants to the conference are
representatives from the partner member agencies, the academe, local
government units, non-government organizations, other consortia, and a
Professor and exchange student from Kochi University of Japan.
Ester B. Barria
KMD
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RDC urges all gov’t. agencies, LGUs
to insure public buildings
RDC Resolution No. 12 series of 2009, which recommended to
the Department of Education the insurance coverage of all
public school buildings as a mechanism of risk transfer
under the mitigation aspect of disaster risk management drew
responses from the DepEd Undersecretary and from the DBM
Region 5 Director that led to the RDC’s issuance of two
related follow-up resolutions.
Resolution No. 37, passed during the September 3 full
council meeting, now encourages not only the DepEd but all
government agencies/entities to include in their agency
budget proposals amount for the insurance of government
buildings.
Similarly, Resolution No. 38, encourages all local
government units to insure all government school buildings
in their respective areas.
Citing
pertinent information from the letter reply of DepEd Usec
Ramon Bacani to the RDC5, Social Development Committee
Chairman Dante Bismonte informed the Council that prior to
2001 all public school buildings were insured with the GSIS
under the Property Replacement Fund (PRF), which was
intended for the restoration of damaged government
properties and for the payment of premiums for the insurance
against extraordinary losses.
The GSIS, however, discontinued the grant of PRF due to
non-observance of certain procedures and deficiency in
requirements that caused delays and expensive operations. It
reached a point when the PRF was no longer included in the
General Appropriations Act.
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