Diocese of Dumaguete

Commission on Catholic Education

3/F Pastoral Center Building
Cathedral Compound
Dumaguete City

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HOME-BASED SELF NAVIGATED LEARNING GUIDE

Name of Student/Pupil: _____________________________________________________________________________ Grade & Section: _____________________________________________ Score:__________________________________________________

Subject/Domain: Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction
Content Standards: The learner demonstrates understanding of (1) Concept of disaster; (2) Concept of disaster risk; (3) Nature of disasters; (4) Effects of disasters.
Learning Competency:
Topic: Introductory of the Subject – Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction (Understanding Disaster and Risk Reduction)
Title of Material/Handout: Building Resilient Communities (Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction (Phoenix Publishing House)
Objectives: At the end of this lesson, you will be able to;
 Assess the Philippines’ vulnerability to disasters
THINKING SKILLS ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS ANSWER/OUTPUT (You may use the back page of this paper)

1. What is a disaster?
2. When does a disaster occur and what are its causes and effects?
Remembering
3. Why is the Philippines a disaster – prone area?
4. What are the factors that make the Philippines vulnerable to disasters?

What do I know about disaster risk in the Philippines?

Instructions:
The following statements enable you to reflect on or figure out your level of understanding about disaster, disaster risk, hazards,
Understanding vulnerability, and capacity. You are required to agree or disagree with each of the following statements. Please put a check mark
(/) if you agree and a cross mark (x) if you disagree.

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 Statement(s) Agree or Disagree?
About Disasters
1. Disasters are often described as a result of the combination of the exposure to a hazard; the
conditions of vulnerability that are present; and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or
cope with the potential negative consequences.
2. Disasters can be prevented.
3. Disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing
widespread human, material, economic, or environmental losses, which exceed the ability of
the affected community or society to cope, using its own resources.
4. Vehicular accident is considered as a disaster.
5. Vulnerability is a set of prevailing or consequential conditions which adversely affect the
community’s ability to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, and respond to hazardous events.
6. Poor families and poor communities are vulnerable to disaster.
7. Capacities are resources, means, and strengths which exist in households and in the community
and which enable them to cope with, withstand, prepare for, prevent, mitigate or quickly
recover from a disaster.
8. All Filipinos whether rich or poor are vulnerable to disasters.
9. Impact – damage is beyond the normal capacity of the community to withstand.
10. The vulnerability and capacity of a community is indicative of a disaster’s proportion.

About Disaster in the Philippines

11. The Philippines is the most vulnerable country to the Pacific.
12. The Philippines is located along the typhoon belt in the Pacific.
13. The Philippines is not located in the Pacific Ring of Fire.
14. Typhoon Haiyan known locally as Yolanda took place in 2012.
15. The Philippines has the lowest risk score in the world.
16. An average of twenty typhoons each year occurs in the Philippines.

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Self-Learning Navigational Guide Form 14A/2020-2021/TENB