Disaster Risk Management & Risk Reduction Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Explain the concepts of hazard, exposure, vulnerability, capacity and residual risk, and how they combine to produce disaster risk.
• Analyze the purpose, guiding principles and four priorities for action of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030.
• Distinguish disaster risk reduction from emergency response, crisis management and business continuity within the wider risk management cycle.
• Apply multi-hazard risk assessment methods to natural, technological and climate-related hazards relevant to the Gulf and the Middle East.
• Interpret hazard, exposure and vulnerability maps and use them to identify priority areas, assets and population groups.
• Evaluate structural and non-structural risk reduction options, including land-use planning, building codes, resilient infrastructure and nature-based solutions.
• Assess the components of people-centred early warning systems and design clear, actionable risk communication messages.
• Examine disaster risk governance arrangements, including strategies, legislation, institutional roles, risk data and disaster loss accounting.
• Compare disaster risk financing and transfer instruments such as contingency funds, insurance and catastrophe risk instruments.
• Integrate community participation, inclusion and climate adaptation considerations into disaster risk reduction planning.
• Develop a disaster risk reduction action plan with priorities, responsibilities, indicators and a monitoring approach for the participant's organization.

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Learning Outcomes

• Explain disaster risk in terms of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity, and distinguish it from the impacts of a single event.
• Describe the priorities for action and global targets of the Sendai Framework and relate them to national and local responsibilities.
• Prepare a multi-hazard risk profile that covers natural, technological and climate-related hazards relevant to the participant's context.
• Use hazard, exposure and vulnerability information and maps to identify priority areas, assets and population groups.
• Recommend a balanced combination of structural, non-structural and nature-based risk reduction measures for priority risks.
• Evaluate an early warning arrangement against the four elements of people-centred early warning and propose improvements.
• Draft risk communication messages that are clear, credible and actionable for different audiences.
• Identify gaps in disaster risk governance, legislation, institutional roles, risk data and loss accounting.
• Outline a layered disaster risk financing approach that combines retention and transfer instruments.
• Apply community-based and inclusive approaches to reduce the risk faced by groups with higher vulnerability.
• Integrate disaster risk considerations into climate adaptation, development planning and public investment decisions.
• Produce a disaster risk reduction action plan with measurable indicators and a practical monitoring and review process.

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