The Citizen Disaster Response Center made a position paper not just to support the initiatives of enacting the “Philippine Disaster Risk Management Act of 2008” but is also pushing for a comprehensive and pro-people disaster management approach that will address the people’s needs. The paper was addressed to thee government by them as a concerned group warning them of the natural and man-made disaster that may arise in the Philippine setting. The very purpose of this paper is to inform the people that legislators are considering to amend the said Act. The paper also targeted some considerable points on the agenda of the policy makers to guide them upon their decisions of amending the said Act.
The orientation of the style conveyed by the writer/s is found to be serious and formal. Of course the paper has to be decent and noble and as for this paper it did. The style is literary with eloquence upon the writer/s’ choices of words to evoke appropriated renderings of the message to the renders and the target legislators. The writer/s conveyed an objective-impersonal type of writing which is apart from ones point of view.
This paper’s basic contents were conveyed in a persuasive appeal to further convince the agenda of legislatures and consider their points for inclusion. The CDRS represented the concerned people affected by this policy. The group wanted to imply that the said policy must provide some effective development for funding their resources to further support their effective development and efforts which they claimed to be based on voluntary cooperation that called for the grassroots concerned must be involved and addressed. The writer/s in behalf of CDRS implicitly imposes that the said policy which is subject for amendment considerations should be supporting the concerned NGOs like them who is far well-versed in the grass-roots of the said problems of disaster responses.
This paper employed a non-rational mode, a non-argumentative reasoning. It appealed not to reason but more directly to decisions and agendas of the policy makers. This paper wanted to point out particular instances and direct services that should be considered for the furtherance of the effectiveness of this particular policy but of course it must be also advantageous to them as NGOs to also further fundings for their programs.
The first paragraph described the Philippines as most natural disaster-prone countries and its geographical location that asserts its condition for occurrence of disasters. The second paragraph introduced as it is ascribing the other type of disasters, the man-made disasters. The fourth single-sentenced paragraph served as a prelude of the introduction with the assertion of preference for an urgent comprehensive disaster management system which was further supported in the fourth paragraph wherein the writer/s defined the current effectiveness of the existing policy. The fifth paragraph stated their stand to push an amendment of the “Philippine Disaster Risk Management Act of 2008”. From the sixth to the eleventh paragraph, in the light of some statements of preferences, illustration of some ideas to get into the policy makers considerations. A statement of preference was stated on the twelfth paragraph when there was an assertion of involving established religions and churches to include them in participation of helping the poor and needy affected by disasters. And at the last paragraph, still the writer/s appealed to the policy makers agenda that if they will consider this paper’s points on what should constitute this policy in order for the government to minimize costs and not to attend disaster on a full time basis.
There was an exhibition of honesty and sincere approach on the issue of addressing the amendments for the policy with the statements of the last paragraph and its last statement wherein it calls for cooperation among all other concerned groups.
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