By: Vice Mayor Alfredo A. Arquillano, JR
By: Vice Mayor Alfredo A. Arquillano, JR
By: Vice Mayor Alfredo A. Arquillano, JR
ARQUILLANO, JR
3rd Class Municipality
LAND AREA
10, 597 hectares
NO. OF BARANGAY
15 – fully energized
with 120 functional Puroks
POPULATION
44, 588 – 2007 Census
AREA OF LAKE DANAO
649 hectares
VAST WHITE SAND BEACHES
LIVELIHOOD
Farming
Fishing
Cottage Industries
Soli – Soli Weaving
Bamboo Strips Weaving
Sanfran Population
Municipal Hazards
(Essential 1)
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING &
EMPOWERMENT THRU PUROK SYSTEM
APPROACH
The Purok System
Resilience built by communities
Why a Purok system?
In the Philippines, the smallest
governing unit is called a barangay
(village).
NAME OF SITIO
BARANGAY KAGAWAD
PUROK HALL
NAME OF PUROK
PUROK PRESIDENT
SET OF OFFICERS
(Essential No. 2, 3, 4, 9)
Creation of the Local Disaster Risk
Reduction & Management Office
Administration &
Training
Operations &
Warning
DRRM Officer
Administrative and
Training
Operation and
warning
Research and
Planning
14%
Prevention
27%
Mitigation
Preparedeness
59%
SOUTHERN
POBLACION ESPERANZA STA CRUZ
NORTHERN
CONSUELO POBLACION
UNIDOS SANTIAGO
UNION
Hazard Maps: Installed in the
strategic location in the barangay
for awareness
Harnessing the
sun’s power
Municipal San
Gymnasium/Evacuation Francisco
Center Seawall
Built environment designed to withstand
typhoons
Teaching Preparedness to the
Most Vulnerable
Converting vulnerabilities to capacities
Community-based Swimming
Lessons for Youth & Kids
EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: ENJOINING
THE YOUTH
International Day for Disaster Risk
Reduction: A Community Event
Organizing & Preparing the most
vulnerable group “people with dis-
abilities (PWD) “
Training local “weather forecasters”:
Using the Rain Gauge
Barangay based Early Warning
Device
Leading the Mayors of Camotes Islands
to join disaster-preparedness campaign
(December 11, 2010, Santiago, San Francisco , Cebu,)
Community based Health Program thru
Health Ambassadors
(Essentials 5)
Upgrading of Health Facilities
Health Ambassadors: Bringing
Doctors to the Purok
Information, Education and
Communication (IEC)
Conducted Annual building assessment and
Implementation of the San Francisco Camotes
Development Plan
Engendering DRR: Protecting the Women
and Children
Promoting Green Economy
Community based environmental
Protection & Management
(Essential 8)
Community Tree Planting and Coastal
Clean-up
Two Million Trees Project for
Green San Francisco
Community based Solid Waste Management
Approach
(Essential 8)
Community Implementation on Solid Waste
Management Program
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