This Act aims to uphold the people’s constitutional rights to life and property by addressing the root causes of vulnerabilities to disasters, strengthening the country’s institutional capacity for disaster risk reduction and management and building the resilience of local communities to disasters including climate change impacts. On gender perspective, it ensures that disaster risk reduction and climate change measures are gender responsive, sensitive to indigenous know ledge systems, and respectful of human rights.
Asset Type: | Publications |
Collection: | Other Philippine Publications |
Subject: | RA 10121, Philippines |
Authors: | Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines |
Publisher: | House of Representatives of the Philippines |
Publication Date: | 2009 |
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