Comprehensive disaster risk management framework on-line course, India

This course addresses basic questions such as “why are disasters a development issue?" and “what are the components of comprehensive disaster risk management?" The course reviews the institutional arrangements and financing mechanisms of disaster management systems, and identifies the role of national and local actors in the processes related to risk assessment, mitigation and financing.

Objective

The increased demand for both disaster assistance and mitigation capacity building calls for a structured, comprehensive and global risk management framework, one that can be used by regional and national authorities and by partner institutions. The World Bank Institute Natural Disaster Risk Management Program was developed to address the above needs. The WB Hazard Management Unit and ProVention Consortium supported the program development.

The program comprises a series of web-based courses, which aim at (i) awareness raising and (ii) advancing the participants’ analytical skills and professional knowledge in the specific area of disaster risk management. Comprehensive DRM framework course is the first in the series