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Assessment of Capacity Gaps and Needs of South East Asia Countries
in Addressing Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Variability and Climate Change
climate change adaptation regime, the major gaps
identified by the government are the following (Ne
Winn, 2007):
Lack of capacity building (e.g. training on
relevant methodologies) and expertise in
the area of vulnerability and adaptation
assessment;
Lack of vulnerability assessment such as the
integrated and quantitative vulnerability
assessment as well as assessment of impacts of
climate variability and extreme weather events
on key socio-economic sectors;
Lack of cost-effective analysis of various
adaptation options including adaptation
technologies
Lack of national strategies and action plan
for climate change adaptation and its related
disaster prevention and preparedness
Institutional Settings concerning
Disaster Risk Reduction
Meanwhile, the well-laid institutional arrangements
for disaster management still need to be enhanced by
filling the gaps in capacity building for better intraand
inter- collaboration among the committees and
working groups and also in application of formal
governmental policy into practice at the ground level.
The ADPC (2009) suggests several key activities, as
follows:
Legislation and implementation of standing
order on disaster management
Creation of Disaster Management Law for
assisting Ministries and Departments to
smoothly discharge their duties on disaster
management and allowing for enhanced interministerial/departmental
coordination;
Identification of disaster risk reduction
mandates of each ministry to link ministerial
and departmental disaster management roles
and responsibilities
Implementation of the standing orders;
Assessment of hazard and vulnerability at
the national and sub-national levels through
identification of people and resources and
assets potentially exposed to the hazard prone
areas, followed by the detailed vulnerability and
capacity assessment including demographic
characteristics and means of livelihood;
Standardization of the disaster management
terminology
Capacity Building and training
Training and capacity building on disaster
preparedness and mitigation for governmental
officers of committees, sub-committees and
working groups;
Mobilisation of agencies and resources
to enhance the capacity of the respective
ministerial or departmental focal points within
disaster preparedness committees at the
national and division/state levels, for example
by conducting technical trainings and interand
cross- departmental visits;
Review of training course curriculum for
a trainer to the international standard as
participants of the courses receive updated
information and approaches and provide as a
trainer training programmes at township and
village tract levels;
Improvement of disaster management
training resource kit entailing lesson learned
from past disaster events in other countries,
mainstreaming disaster management in
development planning
Better coordination and information exchange
Involvement of civil society including local
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Enhancing information, education and
communication for disaster preparedness
though determination of activities to be
undertaken for specific hazard in specific areas,
with consideration of wider cultural contexts
Regular updates of disaster preparedness plans
Updating of the standing orders with the
responses of different disaster preparedness
committees, sub-committees and working
groups as well as the list of hazard prone areas;
Identification of the steps for early warning
dissemination and documentation of the
collaboration linkages among communities for
early warning dissemination;
Organisation of multi-agency mock drill
among sub-committees and departments
to consolidate coordination and reporting
mechanism for effective disaster response
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