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• General response of Governments to instances of Disasters = Relief, Search & Rescue and Rehabilitation of Structures

• Increasing trend in disaster occurrence - casualties were rising and the costs were rocketing upwards

• some governments initiated mitigation and preparedness projects

•reports of wrong relief assistance and unsupported mitigation measures grew

• two decades ago, community based approach was recognized, firstly by the UN, then some governments followed

• People in the community suffer most the disaster damages. In reality, they are first front line responders. They undertake some precautionary measures and respond to the disaster even before outside help comes.

• CBDRM corrects the defects of the top-down approach. There is meeting of the bottom-up (community and local level) and the top-down (national and higher level) approaches for an integrated and responsive disaster management system.

Communities (people) are actively involved in the disaster risk assessment process.

vulnerable people themselves will be involved in planning and implementing disaster risk management measures along with local, provincial, and national entities through partnership.

1. People affected by disasters are helpless victims

1. People affected by disasters are active actors in rebuilding their lives and livelihood.

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2. Victims are passive recipients of external aid.

2. People capacities are used and built on through their participation.

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3. Damage and needs assessment are rapidly done by external experts.

3. Damage, needs and capacity assessment are done with people’s participation considering gender, culture, children and age.

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4. Focus on physical and material aid and technical solutions.

4. Assistance include material aid, and organizational / motivational aspects to address root causes of vulnerabilities.

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5. Focus on individual households

5. Focus on individual, family, community preparedness and strengthening its organization.

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6. Donors (outsiders) decide on what the affected families and community needs.

6. Community members participate in decision - making to prioritize needs and risk reduction measures.

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7. Providing aid is the responsibility of the disaster management institution.

7. Disaster risk management is everybody’s responsibility. Disaster agencies have supportive role.

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8. The aim of disaster management is to reduce the immediate suffering and meet emergency needs, and to bring things back to normal.

8. The aim is to reduce long – term vulnerabilities and to increase people’s capacities to better cope with disasters. Building a safe, disaster resilient and developed community

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