Developing a Framework on Predicting Evacuee Needs for Disaster Risk Reduction Management in the Province of Albay

Abstract

An evacuee needs allocation framework wants to ease the predicting process on disaster preparedness in the province of Albay. The evacuee needs allocation framework will help the provincial government to identify and solve the problem of the current and manual process of the disaster management system in preparation down to the allocation of evacuee needs. An evacuation centre is a place that the Provincial Government provides basic human needs including food, water as well as accommodation during or before the disasters to the affected people. Detailed assessment was conducted by authorized personnel in the government organization to look at how to improve the chances of disaster victims with their stay in an evacuation centre. In this paper, the study aims to develop a framework that predicts the evacuee needs preparedness as well as the allocation needs on before and during the calamity to help and enhance the current process in the province of Albay. The researcher includes information technology tools such as RFID and GPS to the framework to enhance the efficiency and accuracy in the implementation of the needs allocation during the calamity in the evacuation centres. The paper will lead the provincial government of Albay in predicting the evacuee needs to insure a sufficient and avoid the shortage and excess of goods from the preparation down to the allocation in the evacuation centres and to help the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council in allocating and monitoring of budgets for transparency purposes.