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• THE CONCEPT OF

  Vulnerability

  • It comes from many aspects, specifically, those that arise from various social, economic, physical, and environmental factors.
• EXAMPLES

  Poor design and construction of building

  Lack of public awareness

  Limited official recognition of risk and

  preparedness measure

  Disregard for wise environmental management
• THE CONCEPT OF

  VULNERAbILITY

  The Asian Disaster Preparedness defines Vulnerability

  as “a set of prevailing or consequential conditions which

  adversely affect the community’ ability to prevent, mitigate,

  prepare for and respond to hazardous event”.
• Who are the so-called MOST vulnerable sectors?

  • They are the community members whose capacities are low and not sufficient to with stand and overcome the damaging and adverse effects of disasters.
• Who are the so-called MOST vulnerable sectors?

  Farmers

  Laborers

  Indigenous

  Person with Disabilities (PWDs)

  Women and children
• Who are the so-called LESS vulnerable sectors?

  • They are the community members whose capacities start from own ability to acquire material resources: skill and trainings; and levels of society.
• Who are the so-called LESS vulnerable sectors?

  Professionals

  Small Entrepreneurs

  Business owners

  Employees
• Who are the so-called NOT vulnerable sectors?

  They are sectors in society having high position in the

  community.
• CATEGORY OF VULNERABILITIES

  PHYSICAL / MATERIAL

  SOCIAL / ORGANIZATIONAL

  ATTITUDINAL / MOTIVATIONAL
• PHYSICAL / MATERIAL

  People who are poor often live on marginal land:

  No Insurance

  No Savings

  Poor Health

  Risky Areas
• FACTORS: PHYSICAL / MATERIAL

  Location / Materials

  Land / Animals / Capital

  Infrastructure and Services

  (Ex. roads, facilities, electricity, transportation, communications)

  Human capital

  (Ex. Population, morality, diseases, nutritional status, poverty)

  Environmental factors

  (Ex. Forestation, soil quality, and erosion)
• SOCIAL / ORGANIZATIONAL

  People who have marginalize in social, economic, or political terms

  are vulnerable to suffering from disasters, whereas groups that are

  well-organized and have a high commitment to their members suffer

  less during disasters.
• FACTORS: SOCIAL / ORGANIZATIONAL

  Family structure

  Leadership qualities

  Legislation

  Decision making

  Relationship to government

  Isolation and connectedness
• FACTORS: SOCIAL / ORGANIZATIONAL

  Division and conflicts

  (ethnic, class, religion, ideology, political groups, language, and

  media conflicts)

  Degree of justice

  (equality and access, and to political processes)

  Community organization

  (formal, informal, traditional, governmental, and progressive)
• ATTITUDINAL / MOTIVATIONAL

  People who have low confidents and their ability to affect

  change or who have “lost heart” and feel defeated by

  events and they cannot control.
• FACTORS: ATTITUDINAL / MOTIVATIONAL

  Attitude towards change

  Initiative

  Religious belief and ideology

  Fatalism, hopelessness, despondency, and discouragement

  Independent/dependent (self-reliant)

  Consciousness, and awareness

  Cohesiveness, unity, solidarity, cooperation

  Orientation toward past, present, and future
• THE CONCEPT OF capacity

  The concept of capacity according to the United

  Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

  (UNISDR). CAPACITY refers to “all the strengths,

  attributes, and resources available within a community,

  organization, or society that can be used to achieve an

  agreed goal”.
• THE CONCEPT OF capacity

  The United Nation Development Programme (UNDP)

  defines CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT as “the process

  through which individuals, organizations, and societies

  obtain, strengthen, and maintain the capabilities to set and

  achieve their own development objectives over time”
• CAPACITY CONSIST:

  Essential to the success of any Disaster Risk Reduction

  (DRR) initiative is also ensuring locally generated, owned,

  and sustained capacity.

  Rather than being the concern of any single agency,

  professional, or stake holder group.
• Values:

  ❖ Value the lives and properties that can be saved by

  knowing how disasters happen.

  ❖ Understand the effects of disasters in our lives; and

  ❖ Appreciate the efforts of those who extended to help to the

  victims of disasters.