P21B set aside in budget for calamities
Some P21 billion has been set aside in the 2025 national budget as calamity fund to boost the country’s disaster-preparedness and long-term climate resilience efforts.
Quezon City Rep. Marvin Rillo, a member of the House of Representatives’ appropriations committee, said that the P21 billion allocated to the calamity fund this year was P500 million more than that set aside in last year’s budget.
According to the lawmaker, “In the 2025 General Appropriations Law, we earmarked P21 billion for the Calamity Fund. This is P500 million more than the P20.5 billion allocated in 2024.”
He said that out of the P21-billion calamity fund or national disaster risk reduction and management fund P10.7 billion was for aid, relief and rehabilitation services in calamity-affected communities, including the training of personnel and other pre-disaster activities; P9.3 billion in capital outlays, primarily for the repair and reconstruction of damaged permanent structures; and P1 billion for the people’s survival fund, which supports adaptation projects and initiatives led by local governments and community organizations.
