Online certification course in Community based Disaster Risk Management
About the Course:
The theory and practice of disaster management today increasingly acknowledges the role of human factors in natural disasters. There is also a discernible shift in the nature of disaster preparedness and mitigation activities. While governments, supported by other actors-international agencies, academia, and non-governmental organisations play a key role in organising and funding disaster management programs, the design and implementation of these initiatives include communities as prime actors. This approach has evolved in the last two decades. It is based on the recognition that the socio-economic vulnerability of communities, rather than physical hazard, explains the impact of disasters and that interventions must therefore aim at reducing vulnerability at the community level.
Successive disasters in different parts of the world have demonstrated time and again that the impact of a disaster in terms of life, assets, and potential for recovery is borne disproportionately by developing countries, and within them by the poorest segments of the society. A community-based approach aims to reduce the socially constructed vulnerability of poor by involving communities as active participants in a disaster programme. There is also a broadening consensus that it is cost-effective to train and educate communities about risks they face, provide them access to resources and knowledge, and to develop community-based preparedness and mitigation programmes. This approach has emerged as a complement to structural mitigation (dams, dykes, levees, etc.) and even certain types of non-structural mitigation programmes (land use, building codes, development regulations, etc.).
Admission Procedure:
Course Fee: Rs 1000 (INR)
Submission of Application form in soft copy and hard copy with prescribed fee in terms either demand draft or NEFT Bank Transfer. People from outside India can pay fee through bank transfer.
If you are interested in any of these courses, you may submit soft and hard copy of your application form with demand draft / copy of transaction details of the online bank transfer through NEFT by email on prgmgr@onlinenidm.gov.in or onlinenidm@gmail.com) and hard copy by registered post on our office address:
Executive Director
National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)
5-B, IIPA Campus, IP Estate, M.G. Road
New Delhi- 110002
Please note, the application along with fee details in soft copy must reach NIDM 7 days before the scheduled course date. NIDM will send the course link and enrollment key for particular course at least 3 days before the scheduled date on your given email id. All the instructions about the registration process for particular course will be provide in advance to all the applicants.