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LGA ANNUAL REPORT 2019

MANAGEMENT OF THE DEAD AND MISSING PERSONS
TRAINING OF TRAINERS (MDM-TOT)

Aside from the usual offerings under handling dead bodies (from retrieval,
this component, the LGA for 2019, in identification and up to its final disposal),
partnership with the DILG - Central Office as well as missing persons and the
Disaster Information and Coordinating bereaved families is given priority in
Center (CODIX), conducted its first two disaster management while ensuring that
batches of training on the Management legal norms are followed, and the that the
of the Dead and the Missing Persons dignity of the deceased and their families
(MDM) for members of the National are respected and guaranteed.
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Council and the DILG regional DRR-CCA While it is true that the management
Focal Persons. of the dead and missing remains as one
of the most difficult aspects in disaster
This program is developed with the response, over 84 trainers are now
intention of making disaster response capable in facilitating and cascading to
not only a matter of the living, but also local government units the vital role
essentially, a matter of the dead and the that MDM will play in effective disaster
missing. It is to ensure that the task in management.

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