Science-based approach to risk assessment is key to bolster disaster resilience as well as to improve climate change adaptiveness in Philippines. For the latest, the most accurate and efficient risks and hazards assessment, the updated National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management plan for 2020-2030 promotes the use of GeoRiskPH, a multi-agency initiative led by the Philippine institute of volcanology and seismology (DOST-PHIVOLCS). GeoRiskPH can aid local government units in the conduct of climate and disaster risk assessment for hazard and risk informed policy making and planning. including the local DRR Plan. The government’s multi-hazard central database system provides LGUs more accurate and timely understanding of the hazards and risks within the Filipino community to create disaster-resilient society.
