Transcript Risk Reduction - Karamoja Health Data Center

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Disaster Risk Reduction
- a Framework for
Sustainable development programming
Out line
 Key concepts; vulnerability, risk, hazards, disaster
 Key components of Risk Reduction
 When development planning becomes a risk
 Conditions for reducing risks
 Mainstreaming DRR
 Framework for planning and programing
 Out break of diseases – Cholera as an example
 Monitoring and reporting indicators
 Useful links
Key components of Disaster Risk Reduction
 Disaster Risk Reduction is based on analysis of existing and
potential hazards in the context of operation. It is sector-based,
but also cross-cutting across sectors,
 Adoption of a more pro-active instead of a re-active approach to
planning – more focus on disaster preparedness to improve
response,
 Greater emphasis on development approaches and effects of
disaster risks to reduce the root causes of vulnerability,
 It builds on a common understanding of the context in which we
operate and consensus on the strategy to minimize the
vulnerabilities on the longer term as well on the short term,
When development planning becomes a risk
 Development taking insufficient account of hazard/risk profile in
planning & programming,
 Unsustainable practices – resulting in increased hazard risk e.g.
land-degradation & inappropriate farming practices,
 Poverty - related level of acceptable risk and coping capacities,
 Rapid urbanization - growth of informal settlements and inner
city slums (- movement of populations),
 Challenges of globalization – deepening inequality results in
increased vulnerabilities / marginalization,
Conditions for reducing risks
 Clear understanding of the local, but also of the wider hazards and the
risks,
 Disaster Risk Reduction needs to be integrated into all development
programmes for long term sustainability and it requires a long term
commitment,
 Better integration between relief and development – Humanitarian
response must become supportive of development goals and
objectives and not be a goal in itself,
 Strategies for reducing risk need to be people centred – it has to build
on people’s local knowledge and cultural practices and apply tools that
people can easily integrate into their lives,
 Sufficient funding is important, but also a matter of re-organising the
‘way we work’,
Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction
It is a dynamic process with a dual purpose:
1.
Ensuring rehabilitation and development is protected through disaster
risk reduction elements,
2. Ensuring that rehabilitation and development do not increase
people's vulnerability to disasters,
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assessing the implications of disaster risk on any planned
rehabilitation or development action,
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in all thematic practice areas and sectors,
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at all levels,
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as an integral dimension of the project cycle; i.e. design,
implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of policies and
programmes,
Framework for Planning and Programming
Disaster Risk Assessment
Hazard Assessment
Vulnerability Assessment
Capacity Assessment
Risk Analysis
Disaster Risk Reduction Plan
Development
Disaster Preparedness
Hazard prevention measures
Hazard mitigation measures
Survivability enhancement measures for high risk groups
Capacity development for community groups
Implementing development interventions
Contingency Plan
Early Warning System
Response structure capacity building
Building contingency funds
Outbreak of diseases (example)
 Disaster risk reduction works in tandem;
Prevention/mitigation + disaster preparedness
 Disaster preparedness + response
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 Food shortage and malnutrition have a direct effect on the individual
susceptibility to diseases - thus the level of potential epidemics is directly
related to people’s access to food and safe water,
 Cholera is a major threat during rainy season due to contamination of
water sources, crowding and less attention to proper hygiene practices and
sanitation conditions. Together with food shortage, the level of outbreaks
increases.
 In general, most communities are aware of cholera and that poor sanitation
predisposes the disease, but communities are less aware of how to prevent
disease from breaking out and how to protect themselves through proper
hygiene practices,
Useful links
 ISDR Secretariat: http://www.unisdr.org/,
 Links between disaster risk reduction and climate change:
http://www.ccdcommission.org/Filer/pdf/pb_disaster_risk_red
uction.pdf,
 Tools for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction:
http://www.preventionweb.net/files/1066_toolsformainstreami
ngDRR.pdf ,
 Integrating disaster risk reduction into CCA and UNDAF:
http://www.undg.org/docs/9866/UNDG-DRR-GuidanceNote-2009_DUP_08-07-2009_11-43-02-734_AM.PDF ,