CAT_Disaster Risk Reduction

WHAT IS DISASTER RISK REDUCTION,

AND WHY DO WE NEED IT?

Why take CAdT?

What can you learn in citizenship advancement training?

It aims to enhance the student's social responsibility and commitment to the development of their communities and develop their ability to uphold law and order as they assume active participation in community activities and assist the members of the community especially in times of emergency (Arroyo, 2010).

WHAT IS DISASTER RISK REDUCTION,

AND WHY DO WE NEED IT?

“Disaster Risk Reduction” 

• the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyze and manage the causal factors of disasters, including through reduced exposures to hazards, lessened vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for adverse events.

In 1999, then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan wrote, "one of the most pressing challenges of our time [is] the extraordinary increase in the number and extent of natural disasters.” 

Multiple Choice

Q1: What is the rank of the Philippines based from the World Risk Index 2022 (released September) ?

• 1st

• 2nd

• 5th

• 10th

World Risk Index 2022

Philippines is No. 1...

• among 193 countries worldwide (representing 99 percent of global population). India and Indonesia ranked second and third, followed by Colombia and Mexico.

What is World Risk Index?

• It is released by the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bundnis Entwicklung Hilft and the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

• Index is released every year that indicates the disaster risk from extreme natural events and negative climate change impacts for 193 countries in the world.

• It is calculated per country as the geometric mean of exposure and vulnerability.

Why is the Philippines at risk?

Multiple Choice

Q2: AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE PHILIPPINE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROVIDING FOR THE NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK AND INSTITUTIONALIZING THE NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

• Republic Act No. 10121

• Republic Act No. 10627

“Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010”

REPUBLIC ACT No. 10121

AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE PHILIPPINE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROVIDING FOR THE NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK AND INSTITUTIONALIZING THE NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

RA 10121 provides a comprehensive, all-hazard, multi-sectoral, inter-agency, and community-based approach to disaster risk management through the formulation of the National Disaster Risk Management Framework.

Multiple Choice

Q3: Which of the following terms refers to the lessening or limitation of the adverse impacts of hazards and related disasters?

• Disaster Preparedness

• Disaster Mitigation

• Disaster Response

• Disaster Recovery

Multiple Choice

Q4: Which of the following terms refers to the 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?

• Disaster Preparedness

• Disaster Mitigation

• Disaster Response

• Disaster Recovery

Multiple Choice

Q5: Which of the following terms refers to 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 principles of “build back better”?

• Disaster Preparedness

• Disaster Mitigation

• Disaster Response

• Disaster Recovery

Multiple Choice

Q6: Which of the following terms refers to the provision of emergency services and public assistance during or immediately after a disaster in order to save lives, reduce health impacts, ensure public safety and meet the basic subsistence needs of the people affected

• Disaster Preparedness

• Disaster Mitigation

• Disaster Response

• Disaster Recovery

What are the four (4) framework priority areas of the NDRRMC?

It includes four distinct yet mutually reinforcing priority areas, namely

(a) disaster prevention and mitigation;

(b) disaster preparedness;

(c) disaster response; and

(d) disaster recovery and rehabilitation

Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

• Early warning systems

• Flood forecasting and monitoring

• Hazard and risk mappings

• Structural and non-structural interventions

Disaster Preparedness

• Contingency planning

• Prepositioning and stock-piling

• Capacitating and organizing responders

• Training, drills and exercises

• Pre-Disaster Risk Assessment

Disaster Response

• Rapid Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis (RDANA)

• Issuance of advisories and situation reports

• Activation of Response Clusters and Incident Command System (ICS)

• Mobilization of responders

• Humanitarian assistance (eg relief distribution)

• Provision of financial assistance

• Management of evacuation centers

Disaster Recovery

• Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)

•  Enhancement of policies and plans

• Reconstruction using “build back better” approach

• Resettlement

• Provision of new sources of livelihood

Multiple Choice

Q7: The (NDRRMC) National Council is empowered with policy-making, coordination, integration, supervision, monitoring and evaluation functions.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Q8: Who serves as the chairperson of NDRRMC?

• Department of Science and Technology (DOST)

• Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)

• Secretary of the Department of National Defense (DND)

• Secretary of the Department of Social

  Welfare and Development (DSWD)

Multiple Choice

Q9: Integration of Disaster Risk Reduction Education into the School Curricula and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Program and Mandatory Training for the Public Sector Employees is stated in RA 10121

• TRUE

• FALSE

The DepED, the CHED, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), in coordination with the OCD, the National Youth Commission (NYC), the DOST, the DENR, the DILG-BFP, the DOH, the DSWD and other relevant agencies, shall integrate disaster risk reduction and management education in the school curricula of secondary and tertiary level of education, including the National Service Training Program (NSTP), whether private or public, including formal and nonformal, technical-vocational, indigenous learning, and out-of-school youth courses and programs.

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