What do you understand by community-based disaster preparedness? Explain the process and preparation strategy of community-based disaster management plans for resilience.
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Assessment of vulnerable areas, resilient infrastructure Vulnerable population: Children, pregnant women, elderly. 4) Formulation of prepared-ness plan: Should take cognizance of needs of community, clarify measures to be taken by the community before, during & after disaster. Specify roles & responsibilities to various officials, departments, NGOs, panchayats, etc II. During the occurrence of Disaster: 1) Organizing search rescue activities: identifying victims, bringing them to safer places, first-aid of shelter 2) Providing shelter to people & livestock, to be given in pre-planned locations, ensure sanitation, food supply, clean water 3) Debris clearance & dead-body identification Disposing dead bodies & livestock in a major concern in this phase by should be planned accordingly Clearance of debris due to collapsing infrastructure III. Post disaster phase: Detailed damage assessment: to understand the magnitude of loss, tell in terms to drivers of damage to infrastructure, damage to crops, etc
Conclusion
Communities have good social capital of trust and work well in coordination, but they alone cannot tackle issues as the disaster's capacity is far, so government should work with them and build their capacity, thus reducing the burden on central disaster relief machinery as they will be helped by strong local capacities and communities.
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Sayali Bhika Pagar
Disaster Management
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Community-based disaster preparedness and resilience
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