US
Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg will visit the province of Albay
Goldberg's
purpose is to personally see the Disaster Risk Reduction Management and Climate
Change Adaptation program of the province in cooperation with the Bicol University
Albay
has been known worldwide as a model and center of DRRM-CCA domain in the entire
country.
The
ambassador will meet with Governor Joey Sarte Salceda; Dr. Cedric Daep, chief
of the Albay Provincial Safety and Emergency Management Office and director of
the DRRM-CCA Training Institute; Dr. Fay Patria Lauraya, BU president; and
eight mayors in the province.
With
Goldberg are officials of the World Food Program and the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID).
In
this connection, Dr. Lani Pabilando, BU Extension Services Office director,
said the university has long been a partner of the province in its DRRM and CCA
program and the same is true with the WFP and the USAID.
BU's
role through her office will be education and training.
Among
the projects the BU has been undertaking under the collaboration with Albay --
and other provinces like Sorsogon -- are mainstreaming of DRRM-CCA in the NSTP
curriculum, Family Preparedness and Food Security and Synergizing Science and
Technology with Indigenous Knowledge System on Climate-Smart DRRM through
Extension in selected local government units down to the barangay level.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=661785
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