Rationale for Declaration
- Enables accelerated rescue, relief, recovery, and rehabilitation efforts.
- Mobilizes both government and private sector, including international humanitarian assistance.
- Facilitates control of prices on basic goods and commodities in affected areas.
Legal and Administrative Framework
- Implementation guided by existing operational plans and directives related to calamities.
- Mechanisms for international humanitarian assistance to be executed under Republic Act No. 10121.
Empowerment of Local Government Units
- Grants local government units (LGUs) authority and latitude to utilize their calamity funds for immediate response efforts.
Directives to Government Agencies
- All concerned government departments and agencies to implement medical assistance, relief, and rehabilitation work.
- Execution to be in accordance with existing operational plans and directives issued for calamity response.
Formality and Authority
- Declaration executed by the President and sealed by the Republic of the Philippines.
- Direction issued to ensure coordinated and effective government action during the declared calamity period.