Organization: Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
Registration deadline: 13 Oct 2017
Starting date: 06 Nov 2017
Ending date: 24 Nov 2017
COURSE OVERVIEW
The Asia-Pacific region continues to face human tragedy and heavy economic losses from disasters- the frequency and intensity of which have escalated in recent years. The Indian Ocean Tsunami and the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami; recent earthquakes in Kashmir, China and New Zealand; cyclone Nargis; typhoon Haiyan; the floods in Pakistan and Thailand; and the Afghanistan blizzards highlight the level of devastation that disasters can bring to the region.
This training course aims to provide necessary and useful fundamental knowledge and skills in disaster risk management in order to enhance the capabilities of disaster managers who wish to reduce the impact of disastrous events in communities.
The topics covered cut across multi-hazard, multi-level, multi-agency, and multi-disciplinary facets, and address both event-related activities as well as those activities that need to be undertaken on a daily basis in order to mitigate the impact of natural hazards.
COURSE CONTENT
Conducted over a period of three weeks, the course is divided into eight modules following the flow of the disaster risk management process:
MODULE 1: Introduction to Disaster Risk Management
- Global disaster risk situation
- Basic concepts and terminologies used in disaster risk management
- Overview of disaster risk management
MODULE 2: Disaster Risk Identification and Assessment
- Introduction to disaster risk management processes
- Introduction to hazards, vulnerability, and capacity
- Hazard, vulnerability, capacity and risk assessment
MODULE 3: Disaster Risk Reduction
- Disaster risk mitigation framework
- Disaster and development
- Mainstreaming DRR in development planning process
MODULE 4: Disaster Preparedness Planning Process
- Overview of preparedness planning processes and concepts
- Preparedness planning processes in key areas such as:
- Setting up a preparedness planning committee
- Achieving agreement on preparedness arrangements
- Documenting preparedness arrangements
- Conducting preparedness training
- Testing preparedness arrangements
MODULE 5: Emergency Response
- Emergency response management principles and concepts
- Key response implementation considerations
- Use of emergency coordination centers
- ICT in emergency responses and management
MODULE 6: Incident Command System
- Basic Principles of ICS
- Incident / Event Assessment and Management by Objectives
- ICS Organization and Staffing
- ICS Facilities
- Incident Resource Management
- Incident & Event Planning Process
- ICS Final Simulation
MODULE 7: Disaster Recovery
- Damage and loss estimation in recovery planning
- Disaster recovery and reconstruction: concepts, practice, and guidelines
MODULE 8: Making Disaster Management Work
- Cross-cutting considerations
- Working with multi-agency teams
- Policy, legal and institutional frameworks
- Media in disaster management
MODULE 9: Re-entering the Real World: Making a Difference
- Development of personal action plans
- Course evaluation
Note: The above contents are shown for general reference only. ADPC’s ongoing course improvement process may lead to some changes in topics and structure.
How to register:
Everyone can register online at www.adpc.net/tsu/sign-in.asp