Disaster Risk Reduction

• RA 10121 - provides a comprehensive, all-hazard, multi-sectoral, inter-agency, and community-based approach to disaster risk management through the formulation of the National Disaster Risk Management Framework.
• Disaster - are often described as a result of the combination of several things: the exposure to a hazard; the conditions of vulnerability that are present; and the insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences
• DRR - the concept and practice of reducing disaster

  risks through analysis and management of the causal factors of disasters.
• Prevention - The outright avoidance of adverse impacts of hazards and related disasters.
• Mitigation - lessening or limitation of the adverse impacts of hazards and related disasters
• Adaptation - The adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.
• Preparedness - knowledge and capacities developed to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from, the impacts of likely, imminent or current hazard events or conditions.
• Response - predominantly focused on immediate and short-term needs and is sometimes called “disaster relief”.
• Recovery - task of rehabilitation and reconstruction begins soon after the emergency phase has ended,