drr & drrm

• DISASTER RISK & REDUCTION - systematic efforts to minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risks, to avoid (prevention) or to limit (mitigation and preparedness) the effects of hazards.
• DRR ACTIVITIES DONE BEFORE A DISASTER STRIKES

  • Building code revision and implementation
  • Hazard and vulnerability analyses
  • Zoning and land use management
  • Public awareness and education
  • Early warning systems including forecasting and dissemination of warnings
• DISASTER MANAGEMENT - activities aimed at reducing the severity of impact of the disaster-causing event which are undertaken before, during, and after a disaster.
• COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT - A process in which communities are actively engaged in the identification, analysis, response, monitoring, and evaluation of disaster in order to reduce the vulnerabilities.
• WHO ARE THE PARTICIPANTS?

  The tasks of decision-making and activity implementation rest primarily on local peoples and organizations
• VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS AND ACTORS IN THE CBDRRM PROCESS

  Ideally, every individual, family, organization, business, and public service entity within a community must assume a role in reducing disaster risks.
• CBDRRM in Schools

  Educational institutions are indispensable actors in community-based DRRM both because students fall within the most vulnerable sectors of the population.
• DRR - DISASTER RISK & REDUCTION
• CBDRRM - COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT