| Project Detail |
The Integrated Flood Resilience and Adaptation Project - Phase 1 (the project) will reduce climate risks and enable climate adaptation in three major river basins (the Abra River basin in Luzon, and the Ranao [Agus] and Tagum-Libuganon river basins in Mindanao), with a focus on addressing flood risk. The project will enhance flood and climate change resilience by (i) improving strategic flood risk management planning, (ii) constructing flood protection infrastructure, and (iii) strengthening community-based flood risk management.
Project Name Integrated Flood Resilience and Adaptation Project - Phase 1
Project Number 51294-001
Country / Economy Philippines
Project Status Approved
Project Type / Modality of Assistance Grant
Loan
The Integrated Flood Resilience and Adaptation Project - Phase 1 (the project) will reduce climate risks and enable climate adaptation in three major river basins (the Abra River basin in Luzon, and the Ranao [Agus] and Tagum-Libuganon river basins in Mindanao), with a focus on addressing flood risk. The project will enhance flood and climate change resilience by (i) improving strategic flood risk management planning, (ii) constructing flood protection infrastructure, and (iii) strengthening community-based flood risk management.
Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy
The Philippines is among the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of disasters and climate change. From 1995 to 2015, the country endured 2,745 calamities triggered by natural hazards, although not all of these events were considered catastrophic. About 56% of damage to properties were due to typhoons and storms, 29% were due to floods, and 6% were due to landslides. During 2010-2019, damages incurred by disasters induced by natural hazards totaled Php463 billion; agriculture accounted for 62.6% of the damages, followed by infrastructure at 23.0%, and private and communications at 14.0%. The average annual losses from typhoons are estimated to reach 1.2% of gross domestic product. Projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicate that, although average annual precipitation amount in the Philippines may remain relatively unchanged, variability and intensity of rainfall are likely to increase, with weather-related hazards becoming stronger and more frequent. Climate change is expected to increase damages and losses resulting from extreme events, which could reach 7.6% of gross domestic product by 2030 and 13% by 2040. A large share of these expected damages and losses are on agricultural land, threatening crops and putting flood-vulnerable communities at higher risk of food insecurity and, with it, the associated problems of child malnutrition, stunting, and domestic violence.
The project river basins are subject to high climate hazards with rising sea-levels, increasing precipitation intensity, and severer onshore storms, which combined will further increase flood risks. The project areas are predominantly rural with limited public infrastructure such as flood control structures, roads and bridges, which makes the river basin communities highly vulnerable to climate-related hazards, particularly floods.
Reducing the vulnerability of women and men to climate change and disasters is one of the priorities of the National Climate Change Action Plan, 2011-2028. The Philippine Development Plan, 2023-2028 calls for (i) upgrading and expanding flood control infrastructure combined with nature-based solutions; (ii) enhancing institutional capacities and decision support systems; (iii) fully implementing asset management; and (iv) prioritizing support to highly vulnerable LGUs for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, including flood control. The government has operationalized these priorities through policy reforms stipulated under the Climate Change Action Program, the first-ever climate action policy-based loan of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Additionally, the government, through the DPWH, has endorsed flood risk management master plans for 25 river basins since 2017 and is preparing plans for an additional 21 river basins. Flood risk management investments for many river basins are included in the governments public investment plan.
Impact
Flood and climate change resilience enhanced |
