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Why do the managers of disaster need to know, what is disaster? Key / central concept in disaster management Any study of disaster management starts from a very fair and comprehensive understanding of the concept of disaster So what is disaster, what do we understand by disaster, what image does the word disaster generate in our mind???
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Disaster
Natural Disasters Geophysical Ecological Environmental Epidemic Manmade Disasters Technological Chemical / Biochemical Riot/Anarchy Accidents Stampede Fire
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What is hazard? Does every hazard cause disaster? Hazard : It is a rare or extreme event in the natural or man-made environment which adversely affects human life, property of activity to the extent of causing a disaster.
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What are the indicators for such high impact, severe hazards which may be called disaster?
Better describable than quantifiable parameters/ indicators. UNDRO indicators Legal provisions
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What is this appropriate human intervention for that particular disaster constituency?
The appropriate human intervention by its very nature varies from country to country, community to community, agency to agency, depending upon so many local and disaster related factors
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Formulating DMP
DMP is necessarily unique to the disaster management agency and its disaster management constituency. It depends on many local factors, like vulnerabilities, resources, socio-political and administrative restraints, nature of agencys intervention etc. Functionally, Disaster management policy is a formulated scheme to make appropriate institutional intervention at various stages of disaster management cycle to avoid disasters or as and when disaster hits, to minimize the impact of such disaster. Identifying and understanding the phases of disaster management cycle helps to describe disaster related needs and to conceptualize appropriate disaster management policy and activities.
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Reconstruction
Risk Transfer
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Humanitarian assistance (Capitalizing the sentimental/emotional support from the non-affected distant communities ) Damage assessment
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Components of DMP
A disaster management policy may consist of
Statement of policy objectives Policy statement on disaster management approach and principles A cross sector, integrated and functional framework for
1. Risk identification 3. Risk transfer 5. Emergency response 2. Mitigation 4. Preparedness 6. Rehabilitation and reconstruction
Components of DMP
Authoritative disaster profile of the disaster management constituency A legal-administrative chain of command, coordination and evaluation system. Policy statement on manpower planning and resource generation for disaster management Policy statement on international cooperation and coordination in disaster management Policy statement of fund and resource mobilisation.
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