Disaster Awareness, Preparedness and Management

AWARENESS,
PREPAREDNESS
AND
MANAGEMENT
NSTP 1 - CWTS
REPUBLIC ACT 10121
Section 13. Accreditation, Mobilization and Protection of Disaster Volunteers
and National Service Reserve Corps, CSOs and the Private Sector. – The
government agencies, CSOs, private sector and LGUs may mobilize individuals
or organized volunteers to augment their respective personnel complement and
logistical requirements in the delivery of disaster risk reduction program and
activities. The agencies, CSOs, private sector and LGUs concerned shall take
full responsibility for the enhancement, welfare and protection of volunteers,
and shall submit the lists of volunteers to the OCD, through the LDRRMOs for
accreditation and conclusion in the database of community disaster volunteers
DISASTER EQUATION AND
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
CYCLE
Disaster is characterized by several elements namely
hazards, risk, people or community and vulnerability.
Hazards (H) or the physical impact of the disturbance,
either man-made or natural, is heightened by the
amount of risk (R) to the people and the community.
Moreover, the degree of the vulnerability (V) of all the
involved further fuels the magnitude of a disaster.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
CYCLE
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
CYCLE
The concept of disaster risk management accepts that some hazard
events may occur but tries to lessen the impact by improving the
community’s ability to absorb the impact with minimum damage or
destruction. The Disaster Management Cycle is a traditional
approach to disaster management wherein disaster measure is
regarded as a number of phased sequences of action or a continuum. It
aims to reduce the vulnerabilities in the community. In addition, when
sustained over long term, it reduces unacceptable risk to acceptable
levels and makes a community become disaster resistant or resilient.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
CYCLE
NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
AND MANAGEMENT PLAN
The Philippines’ National Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Plan (NDRRMP) is a road map on how DRRM
shall contribute to gender-responsive and rights-based sustainable
development. It shall promote inclusive growth, build the
adaptive capacities of communities, increase the resilience of
vulnerable sectors, and optimize disaster mitigation opportunities
with the end in view of promoting people’s welfare and security.
NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
AND MANAGEMENT PLAN
NDRRMP THEMATIC AREAS
• DISASTER PREVENTION AND MITIGATION
a. Disaster Prevention - – the outright avoidance of adverse impacts
of hazards and related disasters. It expresses the concept and intention
to completely avoid potential adverse impacts through action taken in
advance such as construction of dams or embankments that eliminate
flood risk, land-use regulations that do not permit any settlement in
high-risk zone and seismic engineering designs that ensure the survival
and function of a critical building in any likely earthquake.
• DISASTER PREVENTION AND MITIGATION
b. Disaster Mitigation - the lessening or limitation of
the adverse impacts of hazards and related disasters.
Mitigation measures encompass engineering techniques
and hazard-resilient construction as well as improved
environmental policies and public awareness.
• DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
- the knowledge and capacities developed by governments, professional
response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to
effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from the impacts of likely,
imminent or current hazard events or conditions. Preparedness action is
carried out within the context of DRRM and aims to build the capacities
needed to efficiently manage all types of emergencies achieve orderly
transitions from response to sustained recovery.
• DISASTER RESPONSE
- the provision of emergency services and public assistance
during or immediately after a disaster in order to save lives,
reduce negative health impacts, ensure public safety and meet
the basic subsistence needs of the people affected. Disaster
response of predominantly focused on immediate and short-
term needs and is sometimes called “disaster relief”.
• DISASTER REHABILITATION AND RECOVERY
a. Rehabilitation - measures that ensure the ability of
affected communities and/or areas to restore their
normal level of functioning by rebuilding livelihood and
damaged infrastructure and increasing the communities’
organizational capacity.
• DISASTER REHABILITATION AND RECOVERY
b. Post Disaster Recovery - the restoration and
improvement where appropriate, of facilities, livelihood
and living conditions of disaster-affected communities,
including efforts to reduce disaster risk factors, in
accordance with the principle of “build back better”.
YOUTH’S
CONTRIBUTION
IN DISASTER
MANAGEMENT
In times of natural calamities or manmade disorders, the youth
should be willing and ready to render direct assistance to
calamity victims in any of the following areas:
• Sorting, loading and distribution of relief goods

• Administering first aid treatment on victims
• Comforting and assisting in their rehabilitation
• Disseminating information to concerned individual
• Surveying of affected families and areas
• Monitoring and liaising work
• Civic action activities like environmental and ecological protection,
river and watershed control projects and tree planting/forest fire control
The leadership in the youth development agencies in order to
succeed
in their chosen endeavor should:
1. Plan the chosen activities ahead before any calamity strikes. Join or participate in
training exercise on disaster and relief operations.
2. See to it that the resources that are available could meet the needs of chosen
activities.
3. Coordinate all activities properly with the City, Provincial and Municipal Disaster
Coordinator Councils.
4. Organize the groups. Assign the members’ responsibilities which they feel they
can properly handle. Confidence in what is one is doing is the key to success.
5. Work as a team. Coordinate efforts with other organizations. (NGO, PO, LGU or
religious organizations)
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QUESTIONS?

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