A global review of disaster reduction initiatives - Welcome to the ...

3Living with Risk: A global review of disaster reduction initiativesBasic PrinciplesFactor ComponentsLevel ofImpactDescriptionTrainingTraining curricula and materialsHigh• Improved access to hazard mitigation techniques and skills• More than 5% or public and private sector professionals trained indisaster management• Number of trained professionals: 150+• Twelve institutions in the region conduct training programmes regularly,based on the training curricula developed under AUDMPTraining institutionalizationHigh• A network of Asian disaster management training institutions(ADMIT) established• 30% annual increase in AUDMP network• First year baseline: 25 institutionsPromotion of PublicCommitmentsCreation and updating of DisasterMitigation Acts and RegulationsMedium• AUDMP process has greatly influenced the process of writingnew or revising existing legal process• SOP for municipalities written in BandungCreation and Reforming ofDisaster Management Councilsand CommitteesLow• Background work done by respective partnering institutions inAUDMP countries and cities leading to realization of needs• Disaster management committee(s) created at central, municipaland community levels in Nepal and Sri Lanka.Preparation of Disaster RiskMedium• Action Plans created and in the process of implementation in partneringcities• Number of operational plans developed: tenReduction Plans and ProgrammesMedium• This is found to be a slow and complex process. AUDMP, togetherwith other programmes, has influenced the process in some ofthe partnering countriesPublic Commitments in ActionLow• Community participation in the development process has been arecognized method by countries of the region. AUDMP processhas developed it further by implementing community-based disasterrisk reduction process in the partner citiesCommunity ParticipationNational CommitmentMedium• All the demonstration projects in AUDMP have developed mechanismsfor community participation in disaster mitigation work asappropriate to the countriesSetting up of mechanisms ofcommunity participationLow• Need for improvements realized in countries where it was lacking,but there has not been significant progress in legal status of NGOsin those countries.Enhancing Role of NGOImproved legal statusHigh• Partnership mechanism established, but need to make sustainableMechanism of PartnershipLow-Medium• Tremendous increase in the responsibilities. A successful NGOworking in Disaster Risk Reduction is overwhelmed by theincrease in its responsibilities as perceived by the government, thecommunity and even by the private sector. This is expected to createthe demand for improved legal status in countries where it isyet lacking.Internalizing disasterreduction as a way of lifeand cultureResponsibility enhancementMedium• Demands for improved safety started being expressed from thepopulation• Fatalism greatly reduced in project influence areas and zones, butneed to sustain the efforts: Examples are:- People bought in, even in Bandung where there was no earthquakeduring the past several hundred years.- Success in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal; Bandung, Indonesia; Ratnapuraand Nawalpitiya in Sri Lanka130