Philippines Davao Local Tender

Various local governments from Southeastern Mindanao have received flood hazard maps from the University of the Philippines Mindanaos Geo-SAFER MINDANAO Geo-Informatics for the Systematic Assessment of Flood Effects and Risks for a Resilient Mindanao.The materials which were turned over on April 11 included printed copies and digital files of the maps showing the probable flood events based on amounts of rain. These data came from the 24 river system watershed mapped by the Geo-SAFER Mindanao project over the two-year period.Among those mapped were seven watersheds in Davao Oriental four in Davao Occidental five in Compostela Valley three in Davao del Norte five in Davao del Sur and a pair in Davao City.It has been two years of field work that included wading into riverbeds. But in any research endeavor the most important action is the dissemination of the research output UP Mindanao Project Leader Prof. Joseph Acosta said.Being in the Pacific Ring of Fire and with the advent of Climate Change the Philippines must be pro-active in utilizing technological advancement and facilitating information dissemination read the message of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte which was delivered by Davao City Planning Officer Ivan Cortez.Filipinos are known for their resilience but today we aim to become more resilient in terms of preparedness and disaster risk-reduction Davao del Norte Governor Anthony del Rosario said in his message.These maps should be presented to the Regional Development Council-XI to be used as their basis for policy-making and to enjoin the various local government units to use these maps DOST-XI Regional Director Anthony Sales said during the turnover which was attended by representatives of Davao Regions local government units.During the turnover technical experts from UP Mindanao also provided a mini-seminar for the officials. Gus Kali Oguis spoke on flood map generation Ryan Calvo on the field surveyand Trisha Mae Lopena on data processing. Ryan Keath de Leon in his talk on flood modeling showed how to identify the appropriate map based on the period of rain. Also present in the turn-over and forum were Office of Civil Defense-XI Regional Director Manuel Ochotorena DENR-XI Mines and Geosciences Bureau Elac Paye Damaso Vertido of MinLand Bema Tajones of PAGASA Jasper Cristobal of Mindanao Development Authority Araceli Malate of Central 911 Lee Datuin of Compostela Valley State College and their agencies staff members.The Geo-SAFER Mindanao program is being implemented by various higher educational institutions in Mindanao with UP Mindanao assigned to Region XI. It sustained the work started by the UP Mindanao Phil-Lidar 1 project which created maps for 13 rivers which were turned over to local government units in 2017.