PERSONAL ROLES AND FUNCTIONS FOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSES PLANS

 COMMUNITY RELATIONS FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER

- In charge of creating media plans that promote a positive public image, scheduling
press interviews with executives, and stepping in to manage and resolve any public
relations crises that arise.
COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS:
 Key priority in lessening the impact of disasters
 Critical that all community members take steps to prepare
 Effective when addresses unique attributes of community and engages whole
community
GOVERNMENT has responsibility to:
 Develop, test, and refine emergency plans
 Ensure emergency responders have adequate skills and resources
 Provide services to protect and assist citizens
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN
 Assigns responsibility to organizations and individuals
 Sets forth lines of authority
 Describes how people and property will be protected
 Identifies personnel, equipment, facilities, supplies, and other resources.
COMMUNITY LEADERS: Have the responsibility to participate in community preparedness
 Participate on local collaborative planning council
 Identify and integrate appropriate resources into government plans
 Ensure that facilities, staff, and customers served are prepared
THE PUBLIC
 Learn about community alerts, warnings, and evacuation routes
 Take training
 Practice skills and personal plans
 Network and help others
 Give feedback to community
 Report suspicious activity
 Volunteer
ENGAGING THE WHOLE COMMUNITY
 Goal of citizen corps is to make community safer, more prepared, and more resilient
 Citizen corps councils bring government and community leaders together
 Councils ensure emergency plans more effectively reflect the community
 NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MANAGEMENT (NDRRM) NATIONAL AND LOCAL
COUNCIL
- Covers four thematic areas, namely, (1) Disaster Prevention and Mitigation; (2)
Disaster Preparedness; (3) Disaster Response; and (4) Disaster Rehabilitation and
Recovery, which correspond to the structure of the National Disaster Risk Reduction
and Management Council (NDRRMC). The Framework envisions a country of “safer,
adaptive and disaster resilient Filipino communities toward sustainable
development.”
 NATIONAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MANAGEMENT COUNCIL (NDRRMC)
- Coordinate and monitor the implementation of the disaster risk reduction and
management programs through community participation and public awareness
campaigns.
Priority Area
Prevention and Mitigation
Disaster Preparedness
Disaster Response
Rehabilitation and Recovery
Long Term Goals
Avoid hazards and mitigate
their potential impacts by
reducing vulnerabilities and
exposure and enhancing
capacities of communities
Establish and strengthen
capacities of communities to
anticipate, cope and recover
from the negative impacts of
emergency occurrences and
disasters
Provide life preservation and
meet the basic subsistence
needs of affected population
based on acceptable standards
during or immediately after a
disaster
Restore and improve facilities,
livelihood and living conditions
and organizational capacities of
affected communities, and
reduced disaster risks in
accordance with the “building
back better” principle
Objectives
Reduce vulnerability and
exposure of communities to all
hazards.
Enhance capacities of
communities to reduce their
own risks and cope with the
impacts of all hazards
Increase the level of awareness
of the community to the threats
and impacts of all hazards, risks
and vulnerabilities.
Equip the community with the
necessary skills to cope with the
negative impacts of a disaster.
Increase the capacity of
institutions.
Develop and implement
comprehensive national and
local disaster preparedness
policies, plans and systems.
To decrease the number of
preventable deaths and injuries.
To provide basic subsistence
needs of affected population.
To immediately restore basic
social services.
To restore people’s means of
livelihood and continuity of
economic activities and
business.
To restore shelter and other
buildings/installation.
To reconstruct infrastructure
and other public utilities;
To assist in the physical and
psychological rehabilitation of
persons who suffered from the
effects of disaster
 LOCAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MANAGEMENT COUNCIL (LDRRMC)
1) To play a central role in coordinating and sustaining a multi-level, multi-stakeholder
platform to promote disaster risk reduction in the region or for a specific hazard.
- A local government's active dedication and leadership are critical for the execution
of any local policy. Measures to reduce catastrophe risk to cope with many
stakeholders and levels of government. In numerous, in certain circumstances, a
complete catastrophe risk reduction strategy takes a long time to fully implement,
and the leadership is responsible for this. The role of local government is particularly
important in maintaining political momentum and external backing stakeholders all
along the way.
2) To effectively engage local communities and citizens with disaster risk reduction activities
and link their concerns with government priorities.
- Local governments are naturally in the greatest position to promote residents'
knowledge of catastrophe risks and respond to their concerns as the most direct
public service provider and liaison with citizens. Even the most ardent. If
communities are not adequately educated and involved, advanced national
catastrophe risk reduction efforts (such as early warning systems) may fail. Similarly,
community preparation strategies can be just as beneficial. Local governments
should play a prominent role in community education and training as expensive
public investments in decreasing catastrophe deaths.
3) To strengthen their own institutional capacities and implement practical disaster risk
reduction actions by themselves.
- A local government is required to consider and institutionalize disaster risk
reduction in its day-to-day operations, including development planning, land use
control, and the provision of public facilities and services, as the governmental body
responsible for the long-term development and viability of its area.
4) To devise and implement innovative tools and techniques for disaster risk reduction,
which can be replicated elsewhere or scaled up nationwide.
- A local government is better positioned than a national government to create and
experiment with numerous new tools and approaches, applying them to particular
contexts and situations, due to its smaller scale and flexibility. Priorities in policy.

 PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RED CROSS

- PRC Disaster Management. The Disaster Management Services (DMS) is one of the
major service delivery programs of the PRC. Its main activities focus on the three
phases of disaster management (pre, during, post). DMS is implementing four major
programs such as disaster risk reduction, preparedness, response, and rehabilitation
and recovery. Some of the activities undertaken are training, relief management,
emergency shelter, livelihood for disaster recovery, cash transfer programming, and
shelter in recovery program (shelter repair assistance and core shelter).
 COMMUNITY BASED DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
- is a disaster risk reduction and management process in which at-risk communities
actively participate in the identification, analysis, treatment, monitoring, and
evaluation of disaster risks in order to reduce vulnerabilities and strengthen
capacities, and in which people are at the center of decision-making and disaster
risk reduction and management activities.
RISK KNOWLEDGE
- Activities focused on understanding the community’s existing hazards and risks,
vulnerabilities, and capacity to face a disaster situation. Studying trends of past
disaster events to develop possible scenarios of future disasters.

Tools: Baseline and Endline Data, Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA), Early
Warning System (EWS) Assessment, and Hazard and Risks Mapping

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FOR RESPONSE

- The activities focus on building the capacity of the community to take actions prior
to, during, and after a disaster. This involves recruitment and training of Red Cross
143 volunteers, training, developing a DRRM Plan, contingency planning, equipping,
simulation exercise/drill, and public awareness and dissemination.
EARLY WARNING AND EARLY ACTIONS
- This activity is not a stand-alone component of the DRRM. It is usually included in
the Risk Knowledge (to identify appropriate Early Warning System design and
procedures), and Disaster Preparedness (to establish the EWS and testing through
the simulation exercise/drill). EWS Factors: Alert and Lead Time, Monitoring and
Warning, Dissemination and Communication, and Response
RISK MITIGATION
- This component deals with the physical risk reduction affecting the community to
either prevent or mitigate the impact of the hazards using either structural or non-
structural measures.
REHABILITATION AND RECOVERY

- Disaster Risk Reduction as inclusion to the disaster recovery program for the
Immediate repair or reestablishment of essential services and building resilient
communities.

e.g. Restoration of repairable public utilities, promoting safety awareness on housing

and shelter repair, and provision of livelihood assistance.

PROGRAMS

 COMMUNITY BASED DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MANAGEMENT (CBDRRM)

 SCHOOL BASED DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MANAGEMENT (SBDRRM)

 DISASTER RISK REDUCTION MANAGEMENT in WORKPLACES