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• 4 thematic areas of DRRM

  1. Disaster Preparedness - strengthening the capacities of communities to anticipate, cope up with, and recover from impacts of emergency disaster.
  2. Disaster Prevention and Mitigation - avoiding hazards and mitigate their potential impacts by reducing vulnerabilities and enhancing capacities of communities
  3. Disaster response - life preservation, to meet the basic subsistence of affected community based on acceptable standards
  4. Disaster rehabilitation and recovery - restore and improve facilities, livelihoods in accordance with "building back better" principle
• Disaster Risk Reduction

  • a systematic efforts to minimize vulnerabilities by avoiding and limiting the effects of hazard
  • it leads to: reduced exposure to hazard, lessening the vulnerabilities, and improved preparedness
• Key principles of DRRM

  ➢ Justifies why certain changes have to be made and explain the urgency of creating a DRRM plan.

  ➢ Should be able to make people realize why disaster plans must be a priority in every community especially those that are vulnerable to hazards.
• DRRM Policies, laws, and regulations

  • can save lives if implemented properly and strictly
  • action is the key component of DRRM
• Objective of DRRM:

  • build a resilient community
  • make people equipped with knowledge to lessen disaster impacts
• COMPONENTS OF DRR

  1. Risk Identification
  2. Risk Analysis
  3. Risk Prioritization
  4. Risk Treatment
  5. Monitoring and Evaluation
• ELEMENTS OF DRR:

  1. Prevention - avoidance of hazards' impacts
  2. Mitigation - reduction or limitation of hazards' adverse impacts
  3. Adaptation - adjustments in systems to moderate harm
  4. Preparedness - development of knowledge and capacities to anticipate, respond to, and recover from hazard events
  5. Response - provision of emergency services to save lives, reduce health impacts, and meet basic needs
  6. Recovery - restoration and improvement of facilities, livelihoods, living conditions