Ot­to Car­ring­ton

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen says she is in­tro­duc­ing a sig­nif­i­cant change in the Gov­ern­ment’s com­mu­ni­ca­tion strat­e­gy re­gard­ing dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness and shel­ter alerts.

As the rainy sea­son ap­proach­es, the Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing from a re­ac­tive cri­sis man­age­ment ap­proach to a proac­tive flood pre­ven­tion strat­e­gy. For res­i­dents in flood-prone ar­eas such as Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la, this shift may pro­vide long-await­ed re­lief.