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This document outlines the disaster management cycle which includes activities prior to, during, and after a disaster. It discusses preparedness, warning systems, emergency operations, search and rescue, temporary housing, claims processing, and more. The goal is to restore pre-disaster living conditions while reducing future risks. Key aspects are disaster relief, recovery, rehabilitation, reconstruction, mitigation, and reducing vulnerability and hazards.

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Module 8

This document outlines the disaster management cycle which includes activities prior to, during, and after a disaster. It discusses preparedness, warning systems, emergency operations, search and rescue, temporary housing, claims processing, and more. The goal is to restore pre-disaster living conditions while reducing future risks. Key aspects are disaster relief, recovery, rehabilitation, reconstruction, mitigation, and reducing vulnerability and hazards.

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MODULE 8: DISASTER MANAGEMENT CYCLE  Maintenance of law and order

ACTIVITIES PRIOR TO DISASTER DISASTER RECOVERY

 Preparedness plans  Decisions and actions taken after a disaster


 Emergency exercise  Objective is to restore or improve the pre-disaster living conditions
 Training of the stricken community while encouraging and facilitating
 Warning systems necessary adjustments to reduce disaster risks

ACTIVITIES DURING A DISASTER DISASTER RELIEF

 Public warning systems  Measures that are required in search and rescue survivors, as well
 Emergency operations as to meet the basic needs for shelter, water, food and health care
 Search and rescue
REPATRIATION
ACTIVITIES FOLLOWING A DISASTER
 After the emergency is over, displaced people return to their place
 Temporary housing of origin
 Claims processing
 Grants REHABILITATION
 Medical care
 Restoration of basic social functions
ACTIVITIES THAT REDUCE EFFECT OF DISASTER
 Providing temporary shelters
 Stress debriefing for responders and victims
 Building codes and zoning
 Economic rehabilitation
 Vulnerability analysis
 Psycho-social rehabilitation
 Public education  Scientific damage assessment
DISASTER IMPACT AND RESPONSE ELEMENTS OF RECOVERY
 The act of implementing into actions what are called for by  Community recovery (including psychological)
preparedness plans
 Infrastructure recovery (services and lifelines)
 Actions taken immediately following the impact of a disaster when
 Economy recovery (financial, political)
exceptional measures are required to meet the basic needs of the
 Environment recovery
survivors
Actions taken in the aftermath of a disaster to:
 Mass evacuation
 Search and rescue
 Emergency medical services  Assists victims to repair dwellings
 Securing food and water  Re-establish essential services
 Revive key economic and social activities Natural hazards are inevitable, reduce vulnerability
HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND MAPPING- ASSESSMENT
RECONSTRUCTION
 Estimating probability of a damaging phenomenon of given
 Permanently repairing and rebuilding infrastructures magnitude in a given area
 Rebuild homes
 Elements- Considerations:
 Owner driven reconstruction
 Speedy reconstruction  History
 Linking reconstruction with safe development  Probability of various intensities
 Maximum threat
MITIGATION  Possible secondary hazards

 Measures taken prior to the impact of a disaster to minimize its VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS
effect (sometimes referred to as structural and non-structural
measures)  A process which results in an understanding of the types and levels
of exposure of persons, property and the environment to the effects
DISASTER MITIGATION of identified hazards at a particular time

 Permanent reduction of risk of a disaster to limit impact on human VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT


suffering and economic assets
 A participatory process to identify what elements are at risk per
PRIMARY MITIGATION hazard type, and to analyze the causes why these elements are at
risk
 Reducing hazard and vulnerability
RISK ANALYSIS
SECONDARY MITIGATION
 Determining nature and scale of losses which can be anticipated in
 Reducing effects of hazards a particular area
 Involves analysis of:
COMPONENTS:  Probability of a hazard of a particular magnitude
 Elements susceptible to potential loss/damage
REDUCING HAZARD  Nature of vulnerability
 Specified future time period
 Protection against threat by removing the cause of threat
PREVENTION
REDUCING VULNERABILITY
 Activities taken to prevent natural phenomenon or potential hazard
 Reducing the effect of threat from having harmful effects on either people or economic assets
DISASTER PREVENTION

 Measures taken to avert a disaster from occurring (to impede a


hazard so that it does not have any harmful effects)

DISASTER PREVENTION PLAN

 It is a written, approved, implemented and periodically tested


program specifically outlining all actions to be taken to reduce risk
of avoidable disaster and minimize the loss should a disaster occur

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

 Activities and measures taken in advance to ensure effective


response to the impact of hazards, including the issuance of timely
and effective early warnings and the temporary evacuation of
people an property from threatened location

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