Community-based DRRM

Which is NOT part of the criteria in selecting at-risk communities:

• most disaster-prone area

• with high poverty rate

• most vulnerable to a particular hazard

• least served by the government and/or by NGOs

TRUE or FALSE:

RA 10121 outlines the activities aimed at strengthening the capacity of the national government and the local government units (LGUs) together with partner stakeholders, to build the disaster resilience of communities and to institutionalize arrangements and measures for reducing disaster risks

• TRUE

• FALSE

The National DRRM Plan has the overall goal of having a _____.

• Safer, disaster-free, and resilient Filipino communities toward sustainable development

• Safer, adaptive, and resilient Filipino communities toward sustainable development

• Safer and less vulnerable Filipino communities toward sustainable development

• Safer, well-informed and capacitated Filipino communities toward sustainable development

Community-based DRRM is different from top-down approaches in the following ways except:

• CBDRRM aims to reduce long-term vulnerabilities and to increase people's capacities to better cope with disasters

• In CBDRRM, disaster agencies provides support by taking full responsibility in providing aid and other emergency needs.

• In CBDRRM, the community members are encouraged to participate in decision making for them to be able to voice out their needs.

• In CBDRRM, solutions are focused on addressing the root causes of vulnerabilities.

The Sendai Framework, the successor to the Hyogo Framework, has seven global targets which are aimed to be achieved by year ____.

Which of the following shows the chronological order of conducting CBDRRM?

• (1) Selecting the community,

  (2) Rapport building and understanding,

  (3) Participatory community risk assessment,

  (4) Community-based disaster risk management planning,

  (5) Community- managed implementation,

  (6) Monitoring and Evaluation

• (1) Selecting the community,

  (2) Rapport building and understanding,

  (3) Community-based disaster risk management planning,

  (4) Participatory community risk assessment,

  (5) Community- managed implementation,

  (6) Monitoring and Evaluation

• (1) Selecting the community,

  (2) Rapport building and understanding,

  (3) Community-based disaster risk management planning,

  (4) Participatory community risk assessment,

  (5) Community- managed implementation,

  (6) Monitoring and Evaluation

In this CBDRRM process, the overall objectives and strategies are translated into operational plans and activities. Community targets in undertaking DRR measures in terms of particular capacities increased and vulnerabilities decreased are also identified.

• Participatory Risk Assessment

• Community-based disaster risk management planning

• Community-managed implementation

• Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation

Higher illiteracy  and unemployment rates than the rest of the population,

situated in isolated locations, more prone to displacement which can affect the continuity of their knowledge systems, culture and tradition-- these are characteristics of which vulnerable group?

TRUE or FALSE: The establishment of early warning systems falls under the area of disaster preparedness.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following is not a characteristic of CBDRRM?

• It recognizes people’s existing capacities and aims to strengthen them.

• It mobilizes the less vulnerable sectors into partnerships with vulnerable sectors in DRR and development projects.

• It looks at disaster as a question of vulnerability.

•  It is the community who suffers most from adverse effects of disasters.