resilience
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building resilience strategy in managing natural disastersPresented in Gambia in December 2015
Bibhuti Bhusan GadanayakDRR & CCA Specialist
NDMA-UNDP, The Republic of Gambia55, Kairaba Avenue, Banjul, The Gambia
West AfricaEmail:[email protected]
ContentsThe context of disasterAfrica disaster statisticsMapping risk West AfricaWest Africa risk mapping drivers…….enoughFocus on communityDefinition resilienceDomain of practiceElements of Coastal Community Resilience
Governance, Livelihood, Coastal resource management, land use planning, risk knowledge, warning and evacuation, Emergency response and Disaster recoveryBuilding resilience4 Pillars of disaster resilienceWhen a city become disaster resilientDisaster resilience?????Thank youDuration: 15 minutes.Number of Slides: 16
Content
Coastal populations dramatically increasing (leading towards more demographic vulnerabilities)
Climate change is anticipated to increase the coastal hazard threat trends (sea level rise, floods, storm – both intensity & frequency)
New problems of “mega disasters” emerging
Disasters are undermining years of development efforts
Increase in anthropogenic and human induced vulnerabilities
The context of Disaster
No of events: 1,699No of people killed 708,712Average killed per year 24,438No of people affected 319,465,876Average affected per year 11,016,065Ecomomic Damage (US$ X 1,000) 24,141,032Ecomomic Damage per year (US$ X 1,000) 832,449
Africa disaster statistics, 1980 to 2008
Source: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/countries/statistics/index_region.php?rid=1
% of people reported affected by disaster type
….so focus on Community Resilience
The Hyogo Framework for Actions (HFA) -2005-2015 has increased the focus on building community resilience for disaster management
Resilience…….… “the potential of a particular configuration of a system to: maintain its structure/function in the face of disturbance, and the ability of the system to re-organize following disturbance-driven change . . .
(Louis Lebel, 2001)
“the capacity to survive, adapt and recover from a natural disaster. (IFRC, 2004)
HFA, disaster resilience is determined by the degree to which individuals, communities and public and private organisations are capable of organising themselves to learn from past disasters and reduce their risks to future ones, at international, regional, National and local levels.
(UNISDR, 2005)
Summery,……the capacity to bounce back.
Disaster Management
Community Development
Coastal ManagementResilience
Domains of practice
Elements of Coastal Community Resilience
Governance
Society and Economy
Coastal Resource management
land use and structural design
Risk knowledge
Warning and evacuation
Emergency response
Disaster recovery
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Leadership, systems, and institutions appropriate to the community that support actions to promote resilience
1. Governance
2. Socio-economy and LivelihoodsProsperous, sustainable, diverse economies and livelihoods that allow communities to help themselves before, during, and after disasters
3. Coastal Resources Management
Active management of renewable resources and protection of habitat and features that sustain those resources and buffer communities from natural disasters
4. Land use management Active management of land uses in the community that allow development to be directed away from
environmentally sensitive and vulnerable areas Zoning, building codes, and infrastructure development guidelines that reduce exposure to
coastal natural disaster risks
5. Risk knowledge
An understanding of risks from coastal natural disasters a community faces and its vulnerability to disasters
Ability to receive alerts and notifications of coastal hazards and to warn and evacuate at-risk populations
6. Warning and evacuation
7 & 8. Emergency response and disaster recovery
Ability of community to mobilize to manage coastal disasters with minimal dependence on outside
assistance Ability of a community to manage post- disaster
assistance
1. Preparedness (hazard, vulnerability, and risk assessments; predictions, forecasts and warning; disaster planning scenarios; insurance; intelligent community)
2. Protection (implementation of building codes and lifeline standards; site-specific design and performance standards for essential and critical facilities)
3. Emergency response (evacuation; emergency medical; mass care; search and rescue; emergency transportation, local, regional, and international assistance)
4. Recovery (reconstruction; local, regional, and global business resumption; post-disaster studies for pre-disaster preparedness)
4 - pillars of disaster resilience
- If, it is prepared for the inevitable natural hazards that are likely to occur at the wrong time and in the wrong place relative to the city’s social constructs
-If, its people, buildings, infrastructure, essential and critical facilities are protected by codes & standards against the potential disaster agents of likely natural hazards
-it is able to: a) respond effectively in real time to move people out of harm’s way,
b) meet their needs in a crisis environment, and c) protect assets, with and without help
- it’s policies not only resist disasters without failing, but also are mandates to look beyond to a future of sustainable developmnt
When a city becomes disaster resilient????
integrates research and scientific knowledge gained from “disaster laboratories” with emerging technologies and the community’s political process to adopt realistic public policies
Disaster resilience????
Community disaster resilience: what’s needed: to find the COMMON AGENDA (CA) of technical and political solutions
Technical solution PCA Political Solution
