Climate Risk Management Proposal for Brgy. Mayondon, Los Banos, Laguna

Climate Risk Program Proposal for Barangay MAYONDON, Los Baños, Laguna

Los Banos, Laguna at a Glance • One of the settlements of the town Bay in Southern Luzon; then called Mainit because of the springs coming from Mt. Makiling

• Renamed Los Banos by Fr. Pedro Bautista in 1589 after he established public baths

• By 17 September 1615, thru a decree by a Spaniard named Don Luis Villa, the town separated from Bay and was Kirst governed by Don Juan Castaneda

Data from 2014 Los Banos, Laguna Socio Economic Profile

Los Banos, Laguna at a Glance • The town has 14 barangays: ANOS, BAGONG SILANG, BATONG MALAKE, BAMBANG, BAYBAYIN, LALAKAY, MAAHAS, MAYONDON, MALINTA, SAN ANTONIO, TADLAC, TUNTUNGIN-‐PUTHO & TIMUGAN.

• Popular for the internationally known UPLB, Mt. Makiling, and the mud spring, including observant points and the “Klat rocks.”

• E.O. No. 784 declared the town as an Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences Community


Los Banos, Laguna at a Glance

• Crops commonly grown are: rice, rambutan/lanzones, banana, coconut, aster, azucena

• Other crops are corn, coconut, mango, coffee, papaya, avocado, and durian

• Total agricultural area is 743.75 hectares • Has 1,055 number of farmers


Barangay Mayondon • Land area: 225.45 hectares or 4 percent of the total area in Los Banos, Laguna, and which has a total of six (6) purok/sitio.

• Population: 17,440 in 2011 (projected, per data from the municipality of Los Banos, Lag.)

• Female is 50.22 percent of the total pop’n. • Male is 49.78 percent of the total pop’n.


Barangay Mayondon • Informal settlers: 595 pax or 7.3 percent of the total for the whole of Los Banos, Laguna; located in PH National Railroad (PNR) non-‐core and in “buhay na riles,” and in other locations.

• Has a total of three school: Mayondon Elementary School, Munting Bata Learning Center, Vea Scool.

• Out of School Youths: 1,330 (consolidated BMIS 2010)


Barangay Mayondon • Consuming a total of 49,663 cu.m of water, of which 2,275 is by the residentials, 11 by the government ofKices, and 25 commercial establishments

• Headed by Punong Barangay Victorio Reyes • Income: Php 6,512,674.83 in 2012 and Php 7,069,162.24 in 2013


Barangay Mayondon • Two big natural resources surrounds the municipality of Los Banos in Laguna: these are the Laguna Lake and the mountain of Makiling, which are both declared “protected area.”

• Destruction to the natural resources brought climate changes, which destructed balance and brings disasters or damages.


Climate change phenomenon in Barangay Mayondon • Quite observable phenomenon are Klooding and the frequent extremely hot weather.

• Flooding, per records, already claimed lives and brought casualties, and damaged shelters, including livelihoods

• Extreme high temperature not only sabotages harvests but also brought heat waves causing death due to heat stroke and other related health risks

Planning for Climate Change • Foremost is for the national government to craft a plan containing the appropriate programs, which should be imposed to be rolled out down to the barangays.

• The administration then of Barangay Mayondon should consequently come up with their corresponding activities aligned to the national initiatives/priorities; adapting it locally.

• SpeciKically, the activities are intended to improve the ability of the households to manage the related risks and prepare the same for upcoming disasters.

Planning for Climate Change • Current programs of Barangay Mayondon includes “clean up drives” at the household level and that supported by the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) to restore the Laguna Lake.

Planning for Climate Change • Another program is the Mount Makiling Forest Reserve, which was started earlier during 1940’s. Objective is to “promote scientiKic and technological knowledge related to conservation and ecosystems.” This was even strengthen today by the DENR’s National Greening Program or the EO 26 where 420 ha of land in Laguna is needed to be planted a total of 1.5 billion of trees, targeted to be completed by end of 2016.

Planning for Climate Change • The program strategies should come with “social mobilization.” This is in the realization that this is not a sole responsibility of only one person. Also, thru the Local Government Units, the programs should encourage more people to participate; tapping also the government bureaus, private organizations, including students.

Planning for Climate Change • To disseminate awareness of the program, CENRO is currently utilizing the use of the online web for information, education campaigns.

• To improve ways to implement the programs, the local government should manage the climate risk effectively, assuring importantly the availability of quality and timely resources to constituents.

Risk Management Strategies • Household Level: impose to strengthen the current strategies such as the segregation and proper disposal of wastes/garbage. Also encourage the households to recycle materials such as the bottles, plastics, and other related re-‐usable.

Risk Management Strategies • Community Level: administration should strengthen already being rolled out program on the use of paper packaging instead of the plastics. This may help advocate about the risk of pollution, which are great contributory to extreme damages. This may also make an early awareness for children thru the practice.

Guideposts for CC Programs • The program should emanate from the grassroots level. Meaning it should incorporate or hear the various concerns down from the locals, which from there will translate to an effective program.

Guideposts for CC Programs • Chances are, there could already be previous interventions. The management in turn should also support to strengthen these to updated and more relevant interventions amidst current phenomenon, which is also sustainable with respect to resources and institutional structures.

Guideposts for CC Programs • “Communication is an aid” thus an effective information campaign must also be incorporated in any program, communicating transparently the probabilities of outcomes. Promote also, in a timely manner, the interventions that carry small risks avoiding irreversible decisions.

Mainstreaming • There is a great need to fully integrate climate change adaptation programs to development initiatives.

• Brgy. Mayondon should start to incorporate CC to policies on water management, disaster preparedness, land use planning, and to agriculture and Kisheries planning.

Mainstreaming • Mainstreaming initiative should end in the alignment of programs, projects and activities into the overall CC adaptation goals.

• One good strategy in mainstreaming is climate prooKing the services and goods provided to every “juan.”

• However, there is a need to also be reminded to make sure about availability of funds and a good focus. E.g. climate risks already present in the community versus the prevailing future climate changes.

Approaches to Mainstreaming

• Strengthen the organization handling the concerns about climate change to instill level of seriousness about it.

• Tap right people to compose the team to handle the organization. Right meaning those who have the “know how” about CC and the community as a whole.


• SpeciKically, the following should be considered undertaking: – Conduct massive capacity building activities since CC is a concern of everyone. Target those who will be directly involve in the organization but should not be limited to them.

– Set up an ofKice either plantilla or an ad hoc that is solely assigned to attend to concerns about CC


• SpeciKically, the following should be considered undertaking: – Line up the taks and responsibilities – Set the goals to CC adaptation. This is important to set a timeline of achievements since one program is not a shot gun solution to a complex phenomenon such as the climate change.

Records of previous CC phenomenon

• Understanding of the previous scenarios helps in crafting the right strategies, tailor Kitted to the locality and to what’s currently happening.

• May include not only climate related information but to extend to include the norms of the people living in the community may also aid in understanding CC in Brgy. Mayondon.


• Collect data/records from the relevant years containing information about weather & climate related information, then analyze for trends and other means to manipulate the data to come up with a good concept to start a study.

• From available data, the barangay CC staff should may do forecasting for potential risks that may affect the community in the coming years. This may form part of the barangay development plan.


• Important reminder: it is impossible to have estimates with high accuracy because of its complexity nature and the chaotic system.

• Most that the barangay may come up into is the possible distribution of the system’s future possible states.


• Tapped experts by the barangay may also use climate models. This may only be upon collection of relevant data from agencies responsible about this. There are various models and it is important also to understand that it may predict different future climate. They may tap regional initiatives that undergone study about climate scenarios in their province and from there adapt it for the barangay thru downscaling techniques.

Vulnerability

• Important to understand the Barangay Mayondon’s level of vulnerability to properly lay out strategies and make Kit the interventions.

• Information that will be gathered on vulnerability is important in crafting plans, especially on the design of adaptation, prioritization, and evaluation strategies.

Vulnerability

• Vulnerability is a function os exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. – In Mayondon, the exposure is quite huge, since the area is almost enclosed within/inside Laguna lake, which may threaten not only a water level rise, but also may affect temperature thus probably why sudden and frequent hot weather was experienced.

Vulnerability

• Vulnerability is a function os exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. – Although, Barangay Mayondon, is not hugely a tilling community but instead Kishing, ofKicials should also collect sensitivity data about change in number of Kish catch and other related information which may show how the locals and their produce is being affected.

Vulnerability

• Vulnerability is a function os exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. – Importantly, the capacity to adapt should be measured. An inventory of available resources within the barangay should be done to understand their resilience or to how far they can stand to extreme weather events. The resources may include to the number of technologies available and being used, number of people knowledgeable and educated, institutions of experts, and its social capital.

Vulnerability

• Note: Vulnerability assessment is very critical in crafting the plans to climate change adaptation and doing this requires a lot of data, which currently may not be available.

Rationale: • Foremost to this, we must understand the value of balance in nature. Like in any system designed with various functions, an area utilized to exceed maximum capacity may impose threat of destruction to the system when it suddenly can’t contain anymore the continuously increasing load. There is thus a need to restore the balance in the community of Mayondon, and an intelligent action is needed immediately.

References:

• Tacio, H. 27 June 2013. Philippine forests are rapidly disappearing. Retrieved from: http://earthjournalism.net/stories/philippine-‐forests-‐are-‐rapidly-‐disappearing

• Regalado. S. A. 03 October 2011. CENRO to complete planting trees for NGP by month’s end. Los Banos Times. Retrieved from: http://lbtimes.ph/2011/2011/10/03/cenro-‐to-‐complete-‐planting-‐trees-‐for-‐ngp-‐by-‐months-‐end/

• Municipality of Los Banos. 2014. Socio Economic and Physical ProKile 2014

PS: Answer to question number 2 is on the word Kile attached.

Climate Risk Management Proposal for Brgy. Mayondon, Los Banos, Laguna

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