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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) XI in partnership with Hydrology for Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) Davao Network is implementing a project with International Centre for Water Hazards and Risk Management (I-CHARM), Japan entitled “Science and Technology in Society for Water-related Disaster Risk Reduction Project”. The said project aims to bring Science and Technology into service for society on water-related disaster risk reduction by assuring full functionality of platforms on water and disaster – particularly torrential rainfall, flood, drought, and landslide. One of the major outputs of this project is the development of Davao Online Synthesis System (OSS) as a Platform for Water Resilience and Disasters in the Philippines. The OSS synthesizes hazard, damage, and socio-economic data, knowledge, information, experience, know-how, and technology into the Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) and provides relevant stakeholders such as policy makers and disaster managers with capacity for informed decisions.

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The National Academy of Science and Technology Philippines (NAST PHL) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has conferred this year’s Outstanding Scientific Paper (OSP) Award to eight locally-published journal articles, five of which are found in the recent issues of the Philippine Journal of Science (PJS).

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Scholars of the Department of Science and Technology IX (DOST-IX) were recently given the best proposal award for their modified greenhouse entry in this year’s National DOST Scholars’ Summit (NDSS).

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“Disaster Risk Reduction and Management is a continuing global challenge that needs to be addressed at the local level, ”Nimfa L. Bracamonte, project leader of the study on Disaster Management Towards Climate Change Adaptation in Two River Systems in Iligan City, said in the recently concluded Mindanao Policy Forum on NRCP Research-based DRRM Policies: Keeping Everyone Safe.