DFA Launches Database on Foreign Agreements and Treaties on DRRM

PASAY CITY 14 July 2022 – In celebration of National Disaster Resilience Month, the Department of Foreign Affairs, through the Office of Civilian Security, launched today the database on foreign agreements and treaties related to disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) to which the Philippines is a party. 

The launch, led by Executive Director Arnel G. Talisayon of the Office of Civilian Security, was held during the National Disaster Resilience Month’s Resilience Hour on Preparedness Webinar. 

The Database aims to provide a consolidated reference for generating periodic reports on its compliance with various DRRM agreements and treaties, in order to help strengthen partnerships and coordination among all key actors and stakeholders in disaster risk reduction and management. 

The Database includes, for example, multilateral instruments such as the Paris Agreement on climate change and bilateral treaties with countries like Viet Nam, Norway, and Thailand. Each entry provides a summary of the key points of the instrument and is linked to a copy of the document.

Former  NDRRMC Chairman and Secretary of National Defense Delfin N. Lorenzana commended the DFA for the initiative saying that the initiative will benefit the NDRRMC as a whole.

The Database is in line with Activity 11.2.1, Output 11.2, Outcome 11 of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (NDRRMP) 2020-2030, which calls for the conduct of an inventory of foreign agreements/treaties on DRRM to which the country is a party. END

OCS Executive Director Arnel G. Talisayon gives the public a glimpse of the Database during the Resilience Hour on Preparedness Webinar.

OCS Principal Assistant Mark Anthony G. Articulo presents before the NDRRMC Full Council the database of Foreign Agreements and Treaties to which the Philippines is a party.