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Concept of Vulnerability

Vulnerability is defined as the characteristics and circumstances that make a community or system susceptible to hazards, significantly increasing the negative impacts of disasters. The most vulnerable sectors include farmers, urban poor, laborers, indigenous people, persons with disabilities, women, and children, who face unique challenges due to historical injustices and limited resources. Understanding vulnerability is essential for guiding resource allocation and policy development to enhance capacity and resilience in disaster risk management.

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Concept of Vulnerability

Vulnerability is defined as the characteristics and circumstances that make a community or system susceptible to hazards, significantly increasing the negative impacts of disasters. The most vulnerable sectors include farmers, urban poor, laborers, indigenous people, persons with disabilities, women, and children, who face unique challenges due to historical injustices and limited resources. Understanding vulnerability is essential for guiding resource allocation and policy development to enhance capacity and resilience in disaster risk management.

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Concept of

Vulnerability
Objectives:
Define vulnerability
Explain the relevance of vulnerability to
capacity and resilience within the context
of disaster risk.
What is
vulnerability?
What is the effect
of vulnerability to
disaster?
Vulnerability is defined as the
characteristics and circumstances of a
community, system or asset that make
it susceptible to the damaging effects
of a hazard.

It is a set of prevailing or


consequential conditions arising from
various physical, social, economic and
environmental factors.
Vulnerability significantly
increases the negative
impacts of disasters, leading
to greater risk of loss,
slower recovery, and
exacerbated social
inequalities.
Who are the so-called Most Vulnerable
Sectors?
They are the community members
whose capacities are low and not
sufficient to withstand and overcome
the damaging and adverse effects of
disasters.
They are composed of farmers, urban
poor, laborers, indigenous people,
persons with disabilities (PWDs),
women, and children.
Why farmers, urban poor, laborers, indigenous people, PWD’s,
children and women are the most vulnerable sectors?

They face unique challenges due to


factors like historical injustices, lack of
resources, discrimination, and limited
access to essential services, making
them more vulnerable to hardship.
Who are the so-called Less Vulnerable
Sectors?
They are the community members
whose capacities is to acquire
material resources, skills and
trainings, and position in the society.

Their capabilities are higher than those


in the vulnerable sector to overcome
the adverse effects of disasters.
Who are the so-called Not Vulnerable
Sectors?
Sector in the society having high position in
the community.

Most of the time, we are the targets of the


vulnerable and less vulnerable sectors in
advocacy working in relating disaster issue to
the structure and policies implemented by
the government that are the root causes of
vulnerability of the community.
Why are these people divided into most vulnerable,
less vulnerable and not vulnerable sectors?

It is a common practice used to guide


resources allocation and policy
development. These categorization,
however, which is often
interconnected with factors like race,
gender, disability, and socioeconomic
status.
What is Capacity?
Capacity refers to all the strengths,
attributes and resources available within a
community, organization, or society that
can be used to achieve an agreed goal.
Coping capacity is the ability of people
and systems, using available skills and
resources, to face and manage adverse
conditions, emergencies or disaster
(UNISDR 2009).
According to Anderson and
Woodrow (1990), there are 3
areas of vulnerability. These
categories also explains why
some sectors in the society
are vulnerable.
A. Physical/Material Vulnerability
Poor people who have few
physical and material resources
usually suffer more from disaster
than rich people.
B. Social/Organizational Vulnerability
People who have marginalized in
social, economic, or political terms are
vulnerable to suffering from disasters.
Weakness in social and organizational
areas may also cause disasters.
C. Attitudinal/Motivational Vulnerability
People who have low
confidence in their ability to affect
change or who have “lost heart” and
feel defeated by events they cannot
control.
THANK YOU
AND GOD
BLESS

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