DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

Generally refers to human and environment protection.

-Murshed and Kafle (2006)

Reducing the loss of life, property and other assets through hazard mitigation and vulnerability reduction

Hazard Assessment

A systematic process used to identify, analyze, and control potential sources of harm or risk in a workplace or environment to prevent accidents, injuries, illnesses, and contamination.

Vulnerability Assessment

A systematic evaluation of a community's, system's, or asset's susceptibility to negative impacts from a hazard, identifying weaknesses and estimating damages while also recognizing capacities to cope and recover.

Vulnerability Assessment

The assessment includes looking into the factors, such as, physical, geographical, economic, social, and political factors that make the community vulnerable.

Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Philippines

A comprehensive, legislated framework under the Philippine Disaster Reduction and Management Act of 2010 (Republic Act No. 10121), which shifts the country's approach from a reactive to a proactive disaster management system

Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Management

It involves community members in creating early warning systems, emergency plans, and mitigation strategies, leveraging local knowledge and cultural practices like Bayanihan to build resilience and reduce vulnerabilities.

Mandated by the Philippine DRRM Law (RA 10121), CBDRRM ensures people are at the center of decision-making, fostering self-reliance, trained personnel, and more effective response and recovery processes.

Empowers local communities to take a leading role in disaster management, from risk assessment and planning to implementation and evaluation.

PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION

People’s participation is providing or allowing people more power to be able to participate and contribute to the initiatives in looking for possible answers to many problems and issues especially with disasters

PRIORITIZING VULNERABLE SECTORS

Urban poor sectors (informal settlers) Indigenous people (terrain areas) Fisherfolks ( coastal areas) Farmers (agricultural areas) Elderly Differently-abled Children Women Refugees

SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES AND MECHANISMS

• Cooperation

• Community organization

• Local knowledge Resources

PARTICIPATORY PROCESS AND CONTENT

Action must involve the community members, particularly the most vulnerable sectors and groups and the whole process of risk assessment, identification of mitigation preparedness, measures, decision-making, and implementation

PROACTIVENESS

The community must stress on pre-disaster measures of prevention, mitigation and preparedness.

RESPONSIVENESS

Community actions must be grounded on needs, perceptions and priorities of the communities in terms of disaster and disaster risk reduction.

INTEGRATED

The community plans for pre-disaster, during disaster and post-disaster measures and links with other communities, organizations and government units/agencies at various levels especially for things that the local community cannot adequately address.

COMPREHENSIVE

There must be a short-term, mediumterm and long-term measures to address vulnerabilities.

MULTISECTORAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Action must consider the roles, participation and concerns of all stakeholders in the community while upholding the basic interests of the vulnerable sectors and combining indigenous knowledge and resources with science and technology.

DEVELOPMENTAL

Community action response to reducing the factors, conditions, and processes that create and supports societal vulnerabilities such as poverty, environmental degradation, and social inequity.

AWARENESS + PREPAREDNESS = SAFETY .

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