Key Principles and elements of DRRR

• DRRR


  Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction is the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through analysis and management of the causal factors of disasters
• DRRR


  • Leads to reduced exposure to hazards
  • Lessening of vulnerability of people and assets
  • Effective management of land and the environment
  • Improved preparedness for adverse events
• Disaster impacts


  • Loss of life
  • Injury
  • Disease
  • Damage to property
  • Destruction of assets
  • Loss of services
  • Economic disruption and environmental degradation
• Pre event


  1. Prevention - Can we avoid it?

  2. Mitigation - Can we absorb the harm?

  3. Adaptation - Can we learn from it?

  4. Preparedness - Are we equipped against it?
• Post event


  1. RESPONSE - What do we do when it comes?

  2. RECOVERY - How can we get back up from this?
• 3 Key Principle

  1. DEVELOPMENT CAN EITHER INCREASE OR DECREASE DISASTER RISK.
  2. POLICIES, LAWS, AND REGULATIONS CAN SAVE LIVES IF PROPERLY AND STRICTLY IMPLEMENTED IN THE COMMUNITY.
  3. THE MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO BUILD A RESILIENT COMMUNITY.
• The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) was adopted by UN member states at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in March 2015, in Sendai City, Japan.
• Mitigation vs Prevention


  Lessening the Effect vs Outright avoidance
• 2 elements of drrr

  1. Pre event
  2. Post event