Training programme on comprehensive disaster risk management
Course contents :
- Introduction & basic concepts of disaster management
- Types of natural hazards, brief description of various natural disasters and their impacts & country’s vulnerability to various natural hazards
- An overview of disaster management systems, framework & institutional mechanism and initiatives taken by the government for mitigation and management of disaster
- An overview of community based disaster preparedness (CBDP)
- Group exercise on a major disaster situation
- Humanitarian imperatives & minimum standards of relief
- Field visit-HRVC exercise
- An overview of international systems & practices and international organizations in disaster response & relief
- Role of information & communication technology in disaster management
- Urban community resilience
- Cross-cutting issues in disaster management