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NSTP
1. Disaster- An event, concentrated in time and space in which a society or a community undergoes
severe danger and incurs such losses to its members and physical belongings.
2. Disaster Preparedness- Activities designed to minimize loss of life and damage to organize
temporary removal of people and property from threatened location and facilitate timely and rescue,
relief and rehabilitation.
3. Warning- Dissemination of message signaling imminent hazard which also include advice on
protective measure.
4. Development- Sustained efforts intended to improve or maintain the physical, social and economic
well-being of a community.
5. Disaster mitigation- Measures taken in advance of a disaster aimed at decreasing or eliminating its
impact on society and on the environment.
6. Disaster prevention- Encompasses activities designed to provide permanent protection from
disasters. It includes engineering and other physical protective measures, and also legislative
measures.
7. Emergency response- Activities undertaken immediately following a disaster. It includes damage
and needs assessment, immediate relief, rescue and debris clearance.
8. Rehabilitation- Immediate repair and initial efforts to re-establish the essential services associated
with social and economic functions of a community.
9. Reconstruction- Rebuilding of community services and facilities to a level at least equivalent to
those existing before the emergency situation.
10. Emergency and Disaster defined-
11. What is Disaster Management- The body of policy and administrative decisions and operational
activities which pertain to the various stages of a Disaster at all levels.
Test 3- Enumeration (1-4) Objectives of disaster management
NSTP
1. National Service Training Program (NSTP)- refers to the program aimed at enhancing civic
consciousness and defense preparedness in the youth, by developing the ethics of service and
2. Civic welfare Training Service- refers to the program component or activities contributory to the
general welfare and the betterment of life for the members of the community or the enhancement of
its facilities, especially those devoted to improving health, education, environment, entrepreneurship,
safety, recreation and moral of the citizenry and other social welfare services;
3. Literacy Training Service (CWTS)- refers to the program component designed to train the students to
teach literacy and numeracy skills to school children, out of school youths and other segments of
4. Reserve Officers Training Corps ( ROTC)- Refers to the program component, institutionalized under
section 38 and 39 of republic Act No.7077, designed to provide military training to tertiary level
students in order to motivate, train, organize and mobilize them for national defense preparedness.
6. Clustering- refers to the grouping of students enrolled to different schools and taking up the same
NSTP component into 1 group under the management and supervision of a designated school;
7. Cross Enrollment- refers to a system of enrollment were a student is officially enrolled in the NSTP
8. Non-Government Organization (NSO)- refers to any private organization duly accredited by CHED
or recognized by TESDA.