What does the course cover?
- Basic disaster management terms and concepts
- Hyogo Framework
- Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) Framework for DRR
- Introduction to hazard, vulnerability and capacity assessment (HVCA)
- Introduction to community participatory tools and techniques
- Organising and conducting a participatory risk assessment
- Planning DRR strategies appropriate to the context
- Monitoring and evaluating the impact of DRR strategies
- How to incorporate DRR into various humanitarian sectors
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Describe the components of disaster risk management
- Demonstrate an understanding of the humanitarian context and underlying principles that inform disaster risk reduction
- Conduct a risk analysis that effectively identifies hazards, capacities and vulnerabilities
- Identify community vulnerability and capacities to deal with natural hazards
- Identify the stages of the disaster management cycle and appropriate DRR activities at each stage
- Understand ways of strengthening the participation of local aid workers and different organisations in overall mechanisms of disaster risk reduction
- Build collaborative partnerships and effectively coordinate DRR activities with key stakeholders
- Monitor and evaluate risk reduction impacts of programmes
- Effectively navigate the resources relating to DRR and resilience that can inform activities
- Describe the importance of using a participatory approach throughout the disaster management cycle
