1. Disaster Preparedness and Resilience
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Disaster Preparedness and Resilience
Drought, Flood, and Debris Flow Disaster Risk Reduction

2. Disaster preparedness and resilience
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Reading materials
UNISDR, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction , United Nations.
UNISDR, Hyogo Framework for Action : Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, United Nations.
Takeya, K., 2013, JICA’s Cooperation for DRR/HFA Activities and HFA 2, presentation at The First Arab Conference on DRR.
Additional sources
UNISDR, Words into Action: A Guide For Implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action, United Nations, 2007,

3. Disaster – Preparedness – Resilience
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Disaster
A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.
A disaster is a function of the risk process. It results from the combination of hazards, conditions of vulnerability and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce the potential negative consequences of risk (ISDR 2007*).
* ISDR, Words into Action: A Guide For Implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action, United Nations, 2007,

4. Disaster – Preparedness – Resilience
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Preparedness
The capacities and knowledge developed by governments, professional response organisations, communities and individuals to anticipate and respond effectively to the impact of likely, imminent or current hazard events or conditions.
Resilience
The capacity to absorb stress or destructive forces through resistance or adaptation; to manage or maintain certain basic functions and structures during disastrous events; and to recover or ‘bounce back’ after an event (John Twigg / DFID DRR Interagency Coordination Group 2007*).
* ibid

5. Key terms
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Risk
The probability of harmful consequences, or expected losses (deaths, injuries, property, livelihoods, economic activity disrupted or environment damaged) resulting from interactions between natural or human induced hazards and vulnerable conditions (ISDR 2007*).
Risk is often also expressed as the equation below (IASC 2007**)
* ibid **

6. Key terms
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Hazard
A potentially damaging physical event, phenomenon, or human activity that may cause the loss of life or injury, property damage, social and economic disruption, or environmental degradation (ISDR 2007*).
This can include latent conditions that may represent future threats and can have different origins: natural (geological, hydro-meteorological and biological) or induced by human processes (environmental degradation and technological hazards).
Hazards can be single, sequential or combined in their origin and effects. Each hazard is characterised by its location, intensity, frequency and probability.
* ibid

7. Key terms Vulnerability
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Vulnerability
The conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards (ISDR 2007*).
* ibid

8. Key terms
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Capacity
A combination of all the strengths and resources available within a community, society, or organization that can reduce the level of risk, or the effects of a disaster (ISDR 2007*).
Capacity may include physical, institutional, social, or economic means as well as skilled personnel or attributes such as leadership and management (ISDR 2007*).
* ibid

9. Disaster management cycle
Mitigation
Preparedness
Response
Recovery
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Recovery plan
Disaster management plan
Operational plan
Contingency plan
Disaster

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Disaster

11. Disaster management Disaster risk management
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Disaster risk management
The systematic process of using administrative decisions, organization, operational skills and capacities to implement policies, strategies and coping capacities of the society and communities to lessen the impacts of natural hazards and related environmental and technological disasters. This comprises all forms of activities including structural and non-structural measures to avoid (prevention) or to limit (mitigation and preparedness) the adverse effects of hazards within the broad context of sustainable development (ISDR 2007).

12. Disaster management Mitigation (ISDR 2007)
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Mitigation (ISDR 2007)
Structural and non-structural measures undertaken to limit the adverse impact of natural hazards, environmental degradation and technological hazards.
Examples of structural measures are engineering works and hazard- resistant construction.
Non-structural measures include awareness-raising, knowledge development, policies on land use and resource management and facilities’ operating procedures.

13. Disaster management Preparedness
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Preparedness
Pre-disaster activities that are undertaken within the context of disaster risk management and are based on sound risk analysis. This includes the development/enhancement of an overall preparedness strategy, policy, institutional structure, warning and forecasting capabilities, and plans that define measures geared to helping at-risk communities safeguard their lives and assets by being alert to hazards and taking appropriate action in the face of an imminent threat or actual disaster (OCHA, quoted in ISDR 2007).

14. Disaster management Relief/Response
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Relief/Response
The provision of assistance or intervention during or immediately after a disaster to meet the life preservation and basic subsistence needs of those people affected. It can be of an immediate, short-term, or protracted duration. (ISDR 2007)

15. Disaster management Recovery
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Recovery
Decisions and actions taken with a view to restoring or improving the pre-disaster living conditions of the affected community while encouraging and facilitating necessary adjustments to reduce disaster risk. Recovery (rehabilitation and reconstruction) affords an opportunity to develop and apply disaster risk reduction measures. (ISDR 2007)

16. Challenges posed by disasters
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Disaster loss is on the rise!
Grave consequences for the survival, dignity and livelihood of individuals, particularly the poor, and hard-won development gains.
Disaster risk is increasingly of global concern.
Disaster risk arises when hazards interact with physical, social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities.

17. Challenges posed by disasters
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There is now international acknowledgement that efforts to reduce disaster risks must be:
systematically integrated into policies, plans and programmes for sustainable development and poverty reduction, and
supported through bilateral, regional and international cooperation, including partnerships.
The importance of promoting disaster risk reduction efforts on the international and regional levels as well as the national and local levels has been recognized in the past few years in a number of key multilateral frameworks and declarations.

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