Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan of Selected Public Schools in Marikina City

Abstract

The primordial objective of this study is to assess the implementation of the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan of the selected public schools in Marikina City. The descriptive method of research was used for the study with the survey questionnaire as the main tool to gather data from the two groups of respondents. The study involved 72 school head respondents and 236 teacher respondents of selected public schools in Marikina City. The statistical tools used to treat the data were weighted mean, t-test and ranking. The salient findings of the study are the following: The school heads and the teachers assessed the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan with an average weighted mean of 3.48 and 3.17 respectively which were verbally interpreted as moderately implemented. There are significant differences between the assessments of the two groups of respondents in the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan in terms of prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response, and rehabilitation and recovery. The top five most prevalent challenges/problems encountered by the school heads and teachers in the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan are as follows: a) Lack of teachers’ training for DRRM; b) lack of inventory, vulnerability and risk assessments of school buildings and infrastructures; c) unavailability of resources to implement DRRM plans, programs, and activities; d) unclear funding source to sustain DRRM plans, programs, and activities; and e) lack of parents’ engagement to support DRRMP.