Community-based
Disaster Risk Management Field Practitioners'
Handbook. Imelda Abarquez and Zubair Murshed,
2004, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center.
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This handbook has been designed
to equip CBDM and CBDRM practitioners' with
theories and practical tools that can be applied
in community work. The handbook is divided into
four parts and covers, CBDRM a framework for
reducing risk, resourse packs, major considerations
in undertaking CBDRM, disaster risks in southeast
Asia. The resource packs are further divided
into seven parts provide step by step instruction
on selecting a community, rapport builging and
understaning the community, participatory disaster
risk assessment, participatory disaster risk
management planning, building and training a
community disaster risk management organization,
community-managed implementation and lastly
participatory monitoring and evaluation. The
handbook is accompanied by an interactive video
on two areas, participatory disaster risk assessment
and action and disaster risk communication.
Community-based
Disaster Risk Management Field Practitioners'
Handbook: Integration to Socio-economic Development
Process. Dr Le Huu Ti, 2004, Asian Disaster
Preparedness Center.
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This is an accompanying booklet to the CBDRM
field practitoners' handbook and is meant to
give additional insights into intregrating CBDRM
into the socio-economic development process.
It discusses the links between the different
phases in CBDRM process and how to sustain the
process of integration.
Proceedings
of the Thirds Disaster Management Practitioners'
Workshop in Southeast Asia on Institutionalizing
CBDRM in Government Policy Making, Planning
and Program Activities. 2004, Asian Disaster
Preparedness Center.
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This document attempts to bring together the
proceedings and outcomes of the workshop. It
also presents papers on the different themes
and country reports on CBDRM and outcomes of
group discussion. The print version of the proceedings
is provided with CD, which contain all presentations
made during the workshop, proceedings, and an
8.00 minutes video documentation of the workshop.
Overview
of Early Warning Systems in Selected Countries
of Southeast Asia. Lolita Garcia, 2004, Asian
Disaster Preparedness Center.
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This report summarizes the findings of a study
of early warning systems in Cambodia, Indonesia,
Lao PDR, the Philippines and Vietnam, the countries
in the Disaster Preparedness Program of the
European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office
(DIPECHO). It aims at raising awareness of the
early warning systems in the respective countries
and provides a basis for further enhancing institutional
mechanisms, technical capacities and community
response options for reducing vulnerability
to extreme climate events.
Disaster Management in Southeast Asia: An Overview.
Lolita Bildan, 2003, Asian Disaster Preparedness
Center. pdf
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This booklet on the overview of disaster management
in selected southeast Asian countries shares
with key stakeholders the current state of disaster
management in the DIPECHO target countries of
Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Philippines and
Vietnam. Examples of good practices from these
countries are cited. Selected innovative community-based
initiatives are also presented to demonstrate
the benefits of mitigation and preparedness
to development. The country section presents
a broad overview of the hazards that threaten
these countries, their vulnerabilities, and
their capacities to reduce these vulnerabilities.
Some sections such related to the ASEAN etc
are. This publication was brought out with the
funding from ECHO during the first phase of
Partnerships for Disaster Reduction.
Study
on Local Coping Mechanisms in Disaster Management
- Case Studies from Lao PDR, 2003, CONCERN Worldwide
in Lao PDR. word
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This interesting field-based study focuses on
how indigenous coping mechanisms of the rural
poor in Lao PDR function in response to shocks
to their livelihood brought about by disasters.
Nine villages in five different provinces were
selected in such a way so as to create a sample
population with geographic and ethnic variety
exposed to a wide range of disaster risks.
Flood
Impact on Women and Girls: Prey Veng Province,
Cambodia, June 2002, CARE International in Cambodia.
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This study conducted for CARE Cambodia by IDP
Education Australia in the two villages of Chey
Arkhaol adn Prey Khla in Prey Veng province
in southeast Cambodia investigates the perceptions
of men and women in emergency situations compared
to normal times. It brings out the differences
in impact of flood on women and girls as compared
to men. The report makes a number of recommendations,
for the CARE staff invovled in Disaster Preparedness
Action Planning Project; for the Preparedness
Action Planning process and suggests preparedness
interventions to make it more responsive to
the needs of women and girls.
Current
Mechanisms for Strengthening of Networking and
Information Sharing among National Disaster
Management Offices in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Indonesia
the Philippines and Vietnam, October 2001. word
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Current mechanisms on regional cooperation
in disaster management in the ASEAN region were
looked into, with particular focus on the five
DIPECHO target countries: Cambodia, Lao PDR,
Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam, and
how these mechanisms would meet the needs identified
by the five countries.
Disaster
Management Policy, Legal and Institutional Arrangements
and Plans in Cambodia, July 2002. word
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This paper presents the establishment of Cambodia’s
National Committee for Disaster Management,
its responsibilities, composition of the national,
provincial, municipal and district committees,
and its five-year institutional development
strategy. Its two-year workplan aims to have
an approved and operational National Disaster
Management Policy and Guidelines; a written
Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response
Plan at the national and provincial levels;
initiation of the Disaster Management Information
System; and the development and approval of
a National Disaster Awareness and Community
Based Disaster Preparedness Program, and a National
Disaster Management Strategy.
Piloting
Analysis of Disaster Management Training Gaps
in the Philippines, October 2001. word
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The Philippines’ strategic program thrusts
in disaster management, and current capacity
building programs by various government and
non-government organizations were looked into
to analyse the gaps in disaster management training,
with particular focus on Community Based Disaster
Management. Training activities to be undertaken
from the national to the local and community
levels are then recommended. A strategy developed
for undertaking a comprehensive Disaster Management
Training Needs Analysis at the national level
is presented.
Policy
and Institutional Arrangement for Disaster Management
in Indonesia, October 2001. word
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This paper details the evolution of Indonesia’s
national disaster management body, the Bakornas
PBP from its beginnings as an Advisory Board
for Natural Disaster Management in 1966, reflecting
how government disaster management policy and
structure change to meet the challenges of the
changing times.
Policy,
Legal and Institutional Arrangements, and Planning
for Disaster Management in Lao PDR, October
2001. word
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This paper presents the development of Lao
PDR’s government policy on disaster management
and of its national disaster management plan,
including the institutional arrangement for
disaster management. It lists priorities for
national disaster risk management.
Review
of Training and Public Awareness Materials,
November 2001. word
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Disaster management training and public awareness
materials in the Philippines were collected,
listed and reviewed to determine their effectiveness
in visual and verbal communication. Community
organizations participated in critiquing, and
their comments were integrated in formulating
a guide in the development, dissemination and
utilization of training and public awareness
materials. This guide was validated by various
agencies that participated in the review process.
The
Philippine Disaster Management Story: Issues
and Challenges, October 2001. word
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This paper chronicles the disaster management
in the Philippines from the pre-colonial period
to the present time, identifying issues, challenges
and lessons learned. It gives proper focus to
the current disaster management system, detailing
the establishment of the national, regional,
and local disaster coordinating councils –
their composition, responsibilities, coordination,
and resources; the formulation of the calamities
and disaster preparedness plan and its subsequent
revisions; the decentralization of functions,
basic services and facilities; including current
initiatives and recommendations to further strengthen
disaster management in the country. Of note
are the listings of major disaster events in
each era, and case studies presented to provide
insights on how the disaster management mechanism
works in the country.
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