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• a term used for reducing and preventing disaster risks. DRR seeks to lessen the harm caused by natural disasters including earthquakes, floods, droughts, and cyclones through ethical prevention. Disaster Risk Reduction
• The “community” is the front line of disaster risk management
• Disaster Risk Reduction is not a “stand alone” activity—it cuts across almost all categories of human activity
• Integrating disaster risk reduction at the national, provincial and community levels takes a long time to achieve. True
• DRR must not become a normal part of the decentralized development process. False
• Disaster risk reduction approach. Helps us consider our emergency response activities in light of existing and new disaster risks. This enables us to design or adjust our activities so that people and communities become safer and more disaster-resilient, as well as safeguarding efforts to create and expand enabling conditions for sustainable poverty alleviation and development.
• Community based disaster risk reduction. Is based on the idea and practice of reducing disaster risks via organized efforts by the communities themselves to analyze and communicate dangers, thus saving more lives.