[1.5] Disaster Risk Reduction

• CBDRRM


  It is a framework created based on the experiences of non-government units in responding to vulnerable communities during times of emergencies and calamities.
• Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction Management


  what does CBDRRM stand for?
• features of CBDRRM

  1. Looks at disasters as questions of vulnerability.
  2. Recognizes and strengthens the current capacities of the people.
  3. Contributes to providing solutions to conditions that make people and communities vulnerable and underdeveloped.
  4. Considers people’s participation as an essential factor in disaster risk reduction.
  5. Pays value on the organizational capacities of underprivileged sectors.
  6. Mobilizes less vulnerable sectors into partnerships with vulnerable sectors in DRR and development projects.
• deforestation


  Without trees holding the soil and absorbing water, soil, and rocks can easily move down destroying properties or killing people on their way.
• poorly-constructed houses


  Deaths from an earthquake are not really caused by ground movement but by debris from structures that are either old or made of substandard materials.
• octopus connection


  Illegal connections and current that exceeds the indicated capacity passing through the wires create too much heat and can start a fire.
• people refusing to go to evacuation centers


  Often left stranded, isolated, or killed during the onslaught of a typhoon. People remain vulnerable to disasters when they don't leave the "danger zone".
• National Disaster Risk Reduction


  the highest policy-making body in matters of disaster mitigation, preparation, response, and rehabilitation
• four thematic areas of NDRR

  1. Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
  2. Disaster Preparedness
  3. Disaster Response
  4. Disaster Rehabilitation and Recover
• disaster prevention and mitigation


  Avoid hazards and mitigate their potential impacts by reducing vulnerabilities and exposure and enhancing the capacities of communities.
• disaster preparedness


  Establish and strengthen the capacities of communities to anticipate, cope, and recover from the negative impacts of emergency occurrences and disasters.
• disaster response


  Provide life preservation and meet the basic subsistence needs of the affected population based on acceptable standards during or immediately after a disaster.
• disaster rehabilitation and recovery


  Restore and improve facilities, livelihood and living conditions, and organizational capacities of affected communities, and reduce disaster risks in accordance with the “building back better” principle.
• what does PAGASA stand for?

  Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
• what does PROJECT NOAH stand for?

  Project Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazard
• what does PHIVOLCS stand for?

  Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
• what does NDRRMC stand for?

  National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council
• what does PIA stand for?

  Philippine Information Agency
• hazard

  • A dangerous phenomenon, substance, human activity, or condition.
  • It may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, loss of livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption, or environmental damage.
• anthropogenic hazards


  Human-induced hazards are induced entirely or predominantly by human activities and choices
• natural hazards


  Those elements of the physical environment, are harmful to man and caused by forces extraneous to him
• disasters


  serious disruptions to the functioning of a community that exceeds its capacity to cope using its own resources
• vulnerability


  the inability to resist a hazard or to respond when a disaster has occurred
• risk


  the consequence of the interaction between a hazard and the characteristics that make people and places vulnerable and exposed
• resilience


  the ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions
• hazard assessment


  The process of identifying hazards, evaluating the risks presented by those hazards, and managing the risks of the experiments is to be performed by incorporating appropriate hazard controls into the experimental design process.
• hazard mapping


  the process of establishing geographically where and to what extent a particular phenomenon is likely to pose a threat to people, property, infrastructure, and economic activities
• timeline disaster response


  a programmed plan of the countermeasures to be implemented in advance by relevant organizations in a timeline counted down from the outbreak of the disaster to deal with risks for which damage can be foreseen to some extent in advance
• vulnerability assessment


  The testing process is used to identify and assign severity levels to as many security defects as possible in a given timeframe. This process may involve automated and manual techniques with varying degrees of rigor and an emphasis on comprehensive coverage.
• capacity assessment


  The process by which the capacity of a group, organization, or society is reviewed against desired goals, where existing capacities are identified for maintenance or strengthening and capacity gaps are identified for further action.
• risk assessment


  The process is used to identify potential hazards and analyze what could happen if a disaster or hazard occurs.
• structural mitigation


  Measures are those that involve or dictate a necessity for some kind of construction, engineering, or other mechanical changes or improvements aimed at reducing hazard risk likelihood or consequence.
• non-structural mitigation


  Measures not involving physical construction that use knowledge, practice, or agreement to reduce disaster risks and impacts, in particular through policies and laws, public awareness raising, training, and education.
• overall responsible agency for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

  Department Of Science and Technology (DOST)
• DOST secretary

  RENATO SOLIDUM, JR.
• Lead agency: Office of Civil Defense (OCD)

  Outcome:

  DRRA and CCA mainstreamed and integrated into national, sectoral, regional, and local development policies, plans, and budget
• Lead Agency: Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)

  Outcome:

  DRRM and CCA-sensitive environmental management
• Lead Agency: Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)

  Outcome:

  Increased resiliency and infrastructure systems
• Lead Agency: Office of Civil Defense (OCD)

  Outcome:

  Enhanced and effective community-based scientific DRRM and CCA assessment, mapping, analysis, and monitoring
• Lead Agency: Department of Finance (DOF)

  Outcome:

  Communities have access to effective and applicable disaster risk financing and insurance.