| AUDMP Program Description
and Accomplishments
Program
Accomplishments
Indonesia
Overview: Although the City of Bandung
in West Java is subject to numerous natural hazards, it is considered
to be especially high risk to earthquake. Not only does the city
sit on sedimentary soils close to an active fault, but it also has
the highest population density of any urban area in Indonesia. The
objective of the Indonesia Urban Disaster Mitigation Project (IUDMP)
is to reduce the vulnerability of the city of Bandung to natural
disasters. The project focuses on reducing the susceptibility of
the urban population, infrastructure, critical facilities, and shelter
to natural disasters, particularly to earthquake hazards. The first
phase consists of hazard mapping and vulnerability assessment of
the city. During the second phase, mitigation strategies are developed
and implemented. Lessons learned from the first and second phases
are applied in the replication phase.
Activities include
the review of the Bandung Spatial Planning and Local Building Regulation
with regard to seismic safety; the preparation of technical guidelines
for implementation by the Municipality of Bandung; the development
and implementation of a monitoring system; the development of an
emergency response mechanism and the shift from a single hazard
to a multi hazard mitigation process. Other activities include public
awareness campaigns, networking and training.
Status:
The Indonesian Urban Disaster Mitigation Project (IUDMP) has successfully
completed the demonstration phase I and II and the replication phase.
During the demonstration
phase, seismic risk assessment and vulnerability and damage assessment
were conducted for the Bandung Municipality. Based on the assessment,
a series of mitigation measures were developed and implemented.
These include review and update of the Bandung Spatial Planning
and Local Building Regulation with regard to seismic safety; development
and implementation of a monitoring system; preparation of technical
guidelines for implementation by the Municipality of Bandung; provision
of guidelines for development of a city emergency response mechanism,
training of related staff; public awareness campaign targeted at
journalists and school children; organization of national policy
workshops; and development of national policy for urban disaster
mitigation.
The project
has also incorporated a multi-hazard approach, expanding into mitigation
for La Nina-related disasters in the Bandung Basin. The project
team worked in coordination with the Municipality of Bandung and
the Regency of Bandung for the collection of data and information
to prepare flood and landslide hazard maps as well as in disseminating
new information to the public. The project has developed a sophisticated
networking tool, KOMPAK, to further collaboration among urban disaster
mitigation organizations in Indonesia and beyond. The KOMPAK website
is: http://www.kompak.or.id/, which continues to be updated.
During
the replication phase, the experience and successes in Bandung were
disseminated to other high seismic risk cities throughout Indonesia
through a lessons learned workshop and through assistance in rapid
risk assessment and technical advice. IUDMP was successful in leveraging
contribution from over 29 cities for the lessons learned workshop
and seven cities showed interest in working with IUDMP for rapid
risk assessment. However, due to budget and time limitation, only
four cities, namely Denpasar, Palu, Manado, and Bangulu, completed
the rapid risk assessment by the end of the replication phase.
To promote safer
building construction, IUDMP worked with the City of Bengulu in
training of Bengulu communities and officials in better building
construction techniques, better preparedness, and response strategies,
since the city experienced a number of earthquake disasters.
The Project
has also worked with the Ministry of National Education to institutionalize
school earthquake preparedness and public awareness into the education
system. A training program for over 60 school teachers has been
held with the objectives of enabling teachers to convey/teach earthquake
education materials to students and using the manuals developed
under the Project in the “learning and teaching” process
on earthquake school safety. USAID/Jakarta and the Ministry of National
Education provided great support to the training and have planned
to support two more batches of training beyond IUDMP to cover participants
from all the earthquake prone cities.
At the end of
the replication phase, ITB has established a Research Group on Disaster
Mitigation at the Institute for Research and Community Empowerment
of ITB to continue and further promote disaster mitigation in Indonesia.
Lao
PDR
Overview:
Fires have been identified as the largest cause of loss of life
and property in the capital city of Vientiane. The objective of
the Laos project is to reduce the vulnerability of the Vientiane
population and built environment to fires and related man-made urban
hazards. To accomplish this, the project will focus on building
capacity for prevention and response within the city’s emergency
service departments, establishing a community outreach program,
and improving the regulatory environment and incentive system for
fire mitigation and accident prevention. The lead institution is
the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) in collaboration
with Urban Research Institute (URI), key government ministries and
Vientiane municipal officials.
Status:
The Project is in the demonstration phase 2. The phase 1 implementation
started on July 1, 2002 and completed on December 31, 2002. A Vientiane
Fire Risk Map was produced covering 100 communities in four urban
districts of Vientiane and a pilot community was selected for fire
risk assessment and risk reduction planning using a community-based
approach. Two Stakeholders Workshops were held; one was to introduce
the Project to the Vientiane Community and solicit their support
and the other was to solicit input for development of mitigation
measures, which was the basis for the Phase 2 proposal. A project
overview brochure was produced in English and Lao to inform the
public about the Project. In addition, a six-day training course
on urban disaster mitigation was organized for municipal officials
and town planners.
The
second phase of LUDMP started in January 2003. A baseline data survey
has been initiated to establish the baseline for fire and road safety,
so that project impact can be measured at the end of the Project.
Since most communities have narrow roads and therefore there is
problem in accessibility of fire engines in the event of fires,
volunteer groups have been established in eight communities in Vientiane
as pilot communities. The volunteers were trained in fire prevention,
preparedness, response and rescue in a two-day training course organized
by the Fire Brigade. In addition to building community resilience,
capacity building for the Fire Brigade and public awareness on fire
and road safety will be the main activities under Phase 2.
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