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DISASTER RISK
REDUCTION AND
MANAGEMENT
( DRRM ) CONCEPTS,
PRINCIPLES, AND
TRENDS (RA 10121)
GROUP 2
Civic Welfare and Training Service
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WHAT DOES
DRR STANDS
FOR?
Disaster risk 1 It is a systematic approach to
reduction identifying, assessing and
reducing the risk and
(DRR) disasters.

2 It aims to reduce socio-

economic vulnerabilities to a
disaster as well as dealing
with the environmental and
other hazards that trigger
them.
 DISASTER IMPACTS 5

• loss of life • Injury

• Damage to Property

• Disease
 CONCEPTS OF Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 6

To practice the reducing disaster risks through analysis and management of the causal factors of disasters.

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Reduced Lessening of Effective Improved

exposure to vulnerability of management preparedness
hazards people and of land and the for adverse
assets environment events

Disaster risk reduction usually requires long-term planning across sectors and must be integrated into
general national and regional development strategies.
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Key principles of Disaster

Risk Reduction and
Management
 1 Disaster risk reduction is about choice 8

The scale of impact depends on the choices make for our lives for our
environment. These choices relate in how we grow our food, where and how
we build our homes, what kind of government we have, how our financial
system works and even what we teach in schools. Each decision and action
males us more vulnerable to disaster or more resilient to them. Reducing
exposure to hazards Lessing vulnerability of people and property wise
management of land and the environment, and improving preparedness
and early warning for adverse are all example of Disaster risk reduction.
 2 Disaster risk reduction is everyone's business. 9

Disaster risk reduction includes discipline like disaster

management, disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness, but
DRR is also part of sustainable development. In order for
development activities to be sustainable they must also reduce
disaster risk. On the other hand, unsound development policies
will increase disaster risk - and disaster losses. Thus, DRR
involves every part of society, every part of government, and
every part of the professional and private sector.
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THE TREND IN
DISASTER RISK
REDUCTION
 It includes risk assessment, disaster
presentation and mitigation and disaster
preparedness.
It is used to underscore the current trend of
taking a proactive approach to hazards
passed by extreme natural phenomena.
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Elements of Disaster
Risk Reduction
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is to ensure that human action or natural phenomena do not result in

PREVENTION disaster or emergency.

is defined as “sustained action that reduces or eliminates long-term

MITIGATION risk to people and property from natural hazards and their effects.”

means adjustments in a system's behavior and characteristics that.

ADAPTATION enhance its ability to cope with external stresses.

is the knowledge and capacities of governments, professional

response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to
PREPAREDNESS effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from the impacts of
likely, imminent or current hazard events or conditions.
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(POST- EVENT)

is the taking of appropriate measures to respond to an

event, including action taken and measures planned in
RESPONSE during, and immediately after an event to ensure that its
effects are minimized and that persons affected by the
event are given immediate relief and support.

entails the restoration, reconstruction, and implementation

RECOVERY of development measures that will enable affected
localities and communities to return to normalcy and build
resiliency from the impact of future disasters.
 Definition of Terms
3 VULNERABILITY- the level of
susceptibility or resiliency of the people
1 HAZARD- a situation that poses a
level of threat to life, health,
and communities against impact of the
property, or environment. If it does prevailing hazards based on the state of
not affect human beings or physical, social, and economic conditions
properties then it is just natural in a given area.
phenomenon.

2 RISK- a probability or threat of a

4 DISASTER- a serious disruption of the
damage, injury, liability, loss or other
negative occurrence that is caused functioning of a community or a society
by eternal or internal vulnerabilities involving widespread human, material,
and that they may be neutralized economic, and environmental losses and
through preemptive action. impacts, which exceeds the ability of the
affected community or society to cope
using its own resources.
 Definition of Terms 7 PREPAREDNESS- Pre-disaster actions
and measures being undertaken
5 EMERGENCY- Unforeseen or
within the context of Disaster risk
sudden occurrence,
reduction and Management.
especially danger,
demanding immediate
action.
8 RESPONSE- any concerted effort by two
6 MITIGATION- structural and
or more agencies, public or private, to
unstructured measures to limit the
adverse impact of natural hazards, provide assistance or intervention during
environmental degradation, and or immediately after a disaster to meet
technology hazards and to ensure the life preservation and basic
that ability of at-risk communities to subsistence needs of those people
address vulnerabilities aimed at
affected and in the restoration of
minimizing the impact of disasters.
essential public activities and facilities.
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Thank you!