DRRR Module 17

These are the steps to avoid the adverse impact of hazards. These activities contain Capacity Building, Community Based Disaster Risk Management

(CBDRM) etc.

• Prevention

• Risk

• Vulnerability

• Capacities

It refers to the characteristics and circumstances of a community, system or asset

that make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard

• Mitigation

• Risk

• Vulnerability

• Capacities

The probability that negative consequences may arise when hazards interact with

vulnerable areas, people, property and environment.

• Mitigation

• Risk

• Reconstruction

• Capacities

The resources and skills that people possess, can develop, mobilize and access, which allow them to have more control over shaping their own future and coping with disaster risks.

• Mitigation

• CBDRM

• Reconstruction

• Capacities

All actions taken to minimize the extent of a disaster or potential disaster are called mitigation measures. These actions include Physical or structural measures, Non-structural interventions and steps to Environmental upgradation.

• Mitigation

• CBDRM

• Reconstruction

• Hazard

It is permanent measures to repair or replace damaged dwellings and infrastructure and to set the economy back on course, is categorized as Reconstruction.

• Prevention

• CBDRM

• Reconstruction

• Hazard

It pertains to the idea of processing the active engagement in identifying, analyzing, treatment, monitoring and evaluation of disaster risk to ease vulnerabilities and enhancing the capacities of at-risk communities.

• Prevention

• CBDRM

• Risk

• Hazard