Effective disaster risk reduction is an avenue for development and unleashes opportunities

2. Disaster Risk Reduction
Is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and
reducing the risks of disaster.
It aims to reduce
 socio-economic vulnerabilities
 the environmental and other hazards that trigger
them

3. Risk: is a function of the hazards to which a
community is exposed, their vulnerabilities and
capacity of that community to absorb the shock.
Mathematically:
Risk is proportional Hazard * Vulnerability
Adaptive Capacity

4. The amount of risk a community faces is determined by
their individual and collective vulnerability
Vulnerability is determined by:
 exposure to hazard
 sensitivity to hazard
 adaptive capacity

5. Who are the most vulnerable:
 The poor
 Women
 The elderly
 Children
 People just recovering from shock
 Communities that have not suffered similar shock in
the past

6. Disaster can throw people into poverty, especially
repeat events
It can cause
 transitory poverty
 or chronic poverty

7. Disaster can make people:
 Dispose their productive asset
 Misuse their savings
 Misappropriate and divert their income
 Loan money from informal sectors at high interest
rates

8. Effective DRR entails:
 Disaster preparation and awareness
 Integrating disaster risk management into national
development
 Post disaster needs assessment
 Improved disaster risk financing and insurance

9. Development Benefits of Disaster Risk Reduction
 Economic advancement
 Job creation
 Community cohesion
 Reduced fatalities

10. Development Benefits of Disaster Risk Reduction
 Economic advancement
 Job creation
 Community cohesion
 Reduced fatalities