Disasters can reverse years of development, making disaster risk reduction and management essential to protecting lives and gains. This Program equips professionals to reduce and manage disaster risk.
Designed for manager-level disaster risk staff, the Program reflects international disaster risk reduction practice worldwide. It is directly applicable to managing disaster risk in any context.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Understand disaster risk reduction and management
- Understand hazards, exposure and vulnerability
- Assess disaster risk
- Apply disaster risk reduction frameworks
- Develop disaster risk reduction strategies
- Mainstream DRR into development
- Strengthen early warning systems
- Prepare for disasters
- Plan disaster response and contingency
- Manage disaster response and coordination
- Manage recovery and reconstruction
- Build community-based disaster resilience
- Integrate climate and disaster risk
- Finance disaster risk management
- Strengthen disaster governance
- Apply emerging trends in disaster risk management
Course Outline
- Module 1: Disaster Risk Reduction & Management
- Module 2: Hazards, Exposure & Vulnerability
- Module 3: Disaster Risk Assessment
- Module 4: DRR Frameworks
- Module 5: Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies
- Module 6: Mainstreaming DRR into Development
- Module 7: Early Warning Systems
- Module 8: Disaster Preparedness
- Module 9: Response & Contingency Planning
- Module 10: Disaster Response & Coordination
- Module 11: Recovery & Reconstruction
- Module 12: Community-Based Disaster Resilience
- Module 13: Climate & Disaster Risk
- Module 14: Financing Disaster Risk Management
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Disaster Risk Management
Who Should Attend
This Program is designed for disaster risk, emergency, and resilience managers and Program staff at manager level in government, development, and humanitarian organisations internationally.
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