LEARNING ASSESSMENT - DISASTER AWARENESS PREPAREDNESS - FIL.

The basic law that guides the disaster management programs, programs projects and strategies implementation in the country.

• Presidential Degree 1566

• Presidential Degree 1956

• Presidential Degree 1800

• Presidential Degree 2000

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed on May 27, 2000 Republic Act 10121 as_____________________.

• Philippine Charity Organization Act 1956

• Philippine Risk Management Act of 2000

• Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010

• Philippine National Service Training Program Act of 2001

“An Act Strengthening the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System, Providing for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Framework and Institutionalizing the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan, Appropriating Funds Therefore and For other Purposes”

• Republic Act. No. 9165 known as the “Dangerous Act Law”

• Republic Act. No. 10354 known as “Philippine Commission on Women”

• Republic Act No. 9163, known as the “Philippine National Service Act of 2001

• Republic Act No. 10121, known as the “Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (PDRRM) Act of 2010

An implementing arm of the National Disaster Disaster Risk

Reduction and Management Council, this office have the primary mission of administering a comprehensive national civil defense and disaster risk reduction and management program by providing leadership in the continuous development of strategic and systematic approaches as well as measures to reduce the vulnerabilities and risks to hazards and manage the consequences of disasters.

• Office on the Commission on Election (COMELEC)

• Office of the Civil Aviation Authority (CVA)

• Office of the Solicitor General (Sg)

• Office of Civil Defense (OCD)

Integration of Disaster Risk Reduction Education into

the School Curricula and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Program and Mandatory Training for the Public Sector Employees must include these agencies.

• The Deped, CHED, TESDA in coordination with Office Civil Defense, National Youth Commission, Department of Science Technology

• Department of Environmental Natural Resources, Department of Interior Local Government, Department of Health, and Department of Social Welfare Development and other relevant agencies, shall integrate DRRM education

• Secondary and tertiary levels of education, including NSTP, whether private or public, including formal and non-formal, technical- vocational, indigenous learning, and out-of-school youth course and programs.

• Private organization are exempted in the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction Education due to their modern equipment

All of the following are TRUE about disasters except for one.

• A disaster may be domestic or international.

• A disaster may have known and gradual onset.

• A disaster maybe caused by nature or has human origins.

• A disaster always receives wide spread media coverage.

Disasters frequently result in all of the following except for one.

• Damage to the ecological environment

• Displacement of populations

• Destructions of a population’s homeland

• Sustained public attention during the recovery phase

The National Disaster Coordinating Council under the Office of the President during the Marcos era was established as the highest policymaking body in responding to natural disasters. Fast forward two decades and decentralization movements had taken over the country. What presidential decree was institutionalized?

• Presidential Decree 1566

• Presidential Decree 9165

• Presidential Decree 9163

• Presidential Decree 2016

There are tasks in the disaster management. All of the following are tasks except for one.

• Assess secondary social problems such as health epidemics, displaced persons.

• Provide security; prevent looting, protect person and property.

• Counsel those have suffered trauma and grief on a calamity.

• Control rumors, provide accurate information.

Conditions for the delivery of concrete good and services at disaster site all of the following except for one.

• Crowded and cramped conditions for living and working

• A clear demarcation of being on or off duty

• Extreme climate: hot cold, wet, etc.

• Lack of privacy, threat to safety