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UPLB-INREM conducted an exposure trip - capacity-building activities for local stakeholders at UP RI
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Participants of the Exposure Trip and Capacity-building Activities together with Dr. Lagmay and Dr. Pulhin.

The project team of the “Resilience-building and Future-proofing Strategies in a Multi-stressed Scenario in the Province of Albay Philippines” project, implemented by UPLB-INREM, conducted an Exposure Trip and Capacity-building Activities (ET-CBA) last March 21-22, 2023 at the UP Resilience Institute, the main partner organization for the research project.

The ET-CBA aimed to increase the knowledge of the participants through the following activities: A probabilistic climate change risk assessment lecture delivered by UP RI Executive Director Alfredo Mahar Francisco A. Lagmay, PhD; creative way of imparting knowledge and strategies on cascading hazards and compounding impacts through the Sakunwari Board Game, developed by the UP RI Research and Creative Work Division, which was demonstrated with our local stakeholders as participants; and a hazard map interpretation session using the maps produced by the NOAH Center for the project facilitated by Chief Science Research Specialists Joy T. Santiago, EnP and Jerico E. Mendoza, EnP.

As part of the ET-CBA activities, the stakeholders were briefed on the objectives and aims of the research project and a short history of UPLB-INREM by Dr. Juan M.Pulhin, UPLB-INREM Chair and Project Leader. The different divisions of UP RI were also introduced by the following: Chief SRS Jose Abraham C. Ongkiko for the Institution-building Division, Chief SRS Dennis dela Torre for the Research and Creative Work Division, and Chief SRS Richard Ybañez for the Education Division. For the NOAH Center, it was introduced by Audrei Ybañez, Janiella Sandoval, Janice Aldea Carpo, and Patricia Delmendo.

UPLB-INREM would like to express its sincerest gratitude to the UP Resilience Institute for the warm welcome and the assistance they have extended to the project team, and to the representatives of our local stakeholders from the City of Ligao, Municipality of Camalig, Municipality of Guinobatan, Municipality of Oas, Municipality of Polangui, and Municipality of Libon, Bicol University, DENR Region 5, and the Albay Provincial Safety and Emergency Management Office for their participation. (Kyle Singson, University Research Associate I)