lesson 9 & 10

• 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 analysis
  • 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.
• Pre-event

  • risk assesment
  • mitigation or prevention
  • preparedness
• syn-event

  • emergency response (rescue, evacuation, relief)
• post-event

  • recovery
  • rehabilitation
  • reconstruction
• Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction Management (CBDRRM)

  • process of 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 of CBDRRM?

  • the task 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
• The Philippine DRRM Law

  • in 2010, the passing of the RA 10121 or the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act
  • Sec. Judy M. Taguiwalo
  • From National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) to National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC)
• Philippine DRRM System

  
• Salient Features of the DRRM Law

  • DRRM Law gives more emphasis on disaster risk reduction and identifying vulnerability rather than concentrating on just disaster response
• Role of LGU's

  • Under RA 10121, there shall be a DRRM council for each region which will be called REGIONAL DRRM COUNCIL, and which will act as the NDRMMC's regional arm. LGU's, from provincial to the barangay level are also mandated to form and operate DRRM councils and shall have its own chief DRRM offucer these offices must cime up with a Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan (LDRRMP)
• Recognition of Civil and Society Organizations

  • civic organizations
  • NGO's
  • people's organizations
  • other volunteer entities
• Media's Role in Times of Disaster

  • provide accurate and timely advice to national or local organizations and to the public regarding disasters