1. Community Based
Disaster Risk
Management
Approach

2. • 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

3. • 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

4. • 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.

5. • 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.

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

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

8. Traditional Approach CBDRM Approach
1. People affected by 1. People affected by
disasters are disasters are
helpless victims active actors in
rebuilding their
lives and
livelihood.

9. Traditional Approach CBDRM Approach
2. Victims are 2. People capacities
passive recipients are used and built
of external aid. on through their
participation.

10. Traditional Approach CBDRM Approach
3. Damage and needs 3. Damage, needs and
assessment are capacity
rapidly done by assessment are
external experts. done with people’s
participation
considering gender,
culture, children
and age.

11. Traditional Approach CBDRM Approach
4. Assistance include
4. Focus on physical material aid, and
and material aid organizational /
and technical motivational
solutions. aspects to
address root
causes of
vulnerabilities.

12. Traditional Approach CBDRM Approach
5. Focus on individual,
5. Focus on family, community
individual preparedness and
households strengthening its
organization.

13. Traditional Approach CBDRM Approach
6. Donors (outsiders) 6. Community
decide on what members
the affected participate in
families and decision - making
community needs. to prioritize needs
and risk reduction
measures.

14. Traditional Approach CBDRM Approach
7. Providing aid is the 7. Disaster risk
responsibility of the management is
disaster everybody’s
management responsibility.
institution. Disaster agencies
have supportive
role.

15. Traditional Approach CBDRM Approach
8. The aim of disaster 8. The aim is to reduce long
management is to – term vulnerabilities and
reduce the to increase people’s
immediate suffering capacities to better cope
and meet with disasters. Building
emergency needs, a safe, disaster
and to bring things resilient and
back to normal. developed community