Senator Gringo Honasan (2nd from left), chair of the Senate panel on the Congressional Oversight Committee of the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010, and Senator Panfilo Lacson (left), preside over an organizational meeting to review and evaluate the performance of the National Disaster Reduction and Risk Management Council, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. The Committee is also looking into establishing a separate and full-time cabinet-level disaster resilience and emergency management agency which would serve as the focal agency for integrated disaster resilience, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and emergency management.