Pretoria: 11- 15 November 2024
Overview
This Disaster Risk Management course seeks to provide a deeper understanding of disaster related aspects such as prevention, preparedness, rescue, recovery, and reconstruction. The course takes participants through dissecting central concepts, dynamics and theoretical frameworks of disasters, vulnerabilities, and climate change adaptation. It covers such aspects as socio-economic and political dimensions, and health implications of disasters at the local level.
Furthermore, the course outlines historical perspectives of disaster risk management, the changing nature of humanitarian crises and disasters in fragile contexts as it tackles vulnerability reduction and resilience building, climate change and forced migration. The course also helps delegates deepen their understanding of aspects such as disaster management planning, legislative issues concerning disaster risk management, the trans-disciplinarity of disaster risk management and what disaster relief and recovery entail. Finally, the course addresses risk assessment, prevention, mitigation, preparedness, rehabilitation and reconstruction and relevant legislation.
This course is designed for disaster and risk staff, government employees, development officials, paramedics and health officials, fire department personnel, police officers, NGOs, CBOs, and rescue companies
The course helps deepen participants’ understanding of:
- Important disaster risk management concepts and the relationship between the different concepts
- Theoretical underpinnings of disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management practices
- Disaster Management Framework and related laws and rules
- Complex connections and interactions between hazards and vulnerabilities and how risk is contextually configured
- Methods and tools for identification and analysis of hazards and vulnerabilities
- Trans-disciplinary nature of disaster risk management
- Planning processes in disaster risk management and the importance of planning for disaster risk reduction