UP, LCCAD continue collab on climate change adaptation

| Written by Clariza Concordia

When champions of disaster risk reduction management meet. Local Climate Change Adaptation for Development Inc. Executive Director Manuel Rangasa (center) and UP Resilience Institute Executive Director Alfredo Mahar Francisco Lagmay (right) listen to Presidential Legislative Initiative Secretary Joey Salceda (back turned).

The University of the Philippines renewed its partnership with the Local Climate Change Adaptation for Development, Inc., July 17 at the Executive House, UP Diliman. 

 

The signing of the memorandum of understanding marked the parties’ continuing commitment to advance climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and resilience-building in communities. 

 

Leading the MOU signing were UP President Angelo Jimenez and LCCAD Executive Director Manuel Rangasa. The UP-LCCAD partnership was established in 2018. 

 

LCCAD is a non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental organization, and service provider that organizes capacity-building programs for local government units.

UP President Angelo Jimenez (left) and LCCAD Executive Director Manuel Rangasa sign copies of the MOU. Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.
Principal signatories, UP President Angelo Jimenez and LCCAD Executive Director Manuel Rangasa (second and third from left, respectively) show copies of the signed MOU. With them as witnesses are UP Resilience Institute Executive Director (leftmost) and Presidential Legislative Initiative Secretary Joey Salceda (rightmost). Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.
“We want the Filipino youth to be the most climate-resilient cohort in the entire world,” says UP President Angelo Jimenez on the university’s commitment to integrate climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in K–12 learning materials. Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.
LCCAD Executive Director Manuel Rangasa outlines ways to strengthen the UP-LCCAD partnership, specifically on creative industries development, and climate change and nature-based solutions. Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.