CATBALOGAN CITY ─ Samar State University (SSU) is one of the 25 participating universities in the country for the SAFER-U project led by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), University of the Philippines Resilience Institute (UPRI), and University of the Philippines- Diliman (UPD) as the program was launched on April 21 (22).
SAFER-U aimed to build the capacity of State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) across the Philippines to reduce the impacts of climate change and disasters on their constituents, services, structures, and other assets through climate change-sensitive land use, development, and infrastructure planning, as well as disaster risk management. Through in-depth and hands-on baseline evaluations, as well as capacity building workshops with all project stakeholders, the project aims to mainstream resilience factors in the formulation and updating of Land Use, Development, and Infrastructure Plans (LUDIPs) (UPRI, 2022).
Other SUCs who joined the virtual launching and inception meeting are Mariano Marcos State University, Pangasinan State University, Benguet State University, University of Northern Philippines, Central Luzon State University, Ramon Magsaysay Technological University, Tarlac College of Agriculture, Eulogio Amang Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology, Philippine Normal University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Bicol University, Camarines Sur Polytechnic University, Partido State University, Northwest Samar State University, Aklan State University, University of Antique, West Visayas State University, Iloilo Science and Technology University, Northern Negros State College of Science and Technology, Bohol Island University, Western Mindanao State University, Sultan Kudarat State University, Sulu State College, and Surigao del Sur State University.