TOPIC 10

CAPABILITY AND
CAPACITY BUILDING
IN DISASTER
PREPAREDNESS
BRIONES, DELANO, DURAN, LUNA, SANGOGOT, TIKING
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Advocacy
Activities
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Advocacy

- Advocacy is defined as any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports
or defends, or pleads on behalf of others.

- Advocacy activities may include and publications to influence public policy, laws and budgets by
using facts, their relationships, the media, and messaging to educate government officials and the
public.

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Awareness Campaigns
- An awareness campaign is any time-bound, strategic
campaign aimed entirely at increasing public visibility
and awareness for a specific cause.
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- Awareness campaigns may include: the use of digital portrait orientation

media and social media.

- An awareness campaign is not only important because

it brings attention to a topic. Instead, it is part of a
broader strategy designed to motivate people to take
action.

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Awareness Campaigns
- Awareness Campaigns may also
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- This enables communities to be

equipped with the necessary knowledge
to come up with efficient plans and
policies in their disaster management.
Thus, they become more capable of
handling disasters.

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Advocacy Guides

- Advocacy guides aim to raise the

awareness on the urgency of making
communities, especially those
located in hazard-prone regions,
safe from disasters.

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