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Linking preparedness, response and recovery
• Identify links between short-term humanitarian response and each stage of the disaster management cycle
• Identify importance of preparedness activities in informing the start of an emergency response
Disaster cycle stages are interwoven
Introduce and implement
mitigation and preparedness in
immediate aftermath of a
disaster
“There is no period when disaster risks can be safely ignored or set aside, specifically for countries which are highly vulnerable.”
(World Bank)
Mitigation
Minimise effects of disaster
long-term measures for reducing or eliminating riskor adverse impact
Preparedness
Planning how to respond
Activities before hazards occur to..• forecast and warn• evacuate people and property • reduce lead time for response
Response
Minimise hazards created by disaster
•Need for speed to save lives and address immediate humanitarian needs
Recovery
Returning community to normal
•rebuild destroyed property
•re-employment
•repair of infrastructure and services
Build back better
Resilience
• Which of these activities aim specifically to build resilience?
Resilience......
... promotes not only predictable, effective and timely humanitarian action
but also strengthens relationship between humanitarian and development
programming andcapacities of national and local actors to
manage increasing uncertainty and risk
Joint agency rapid assessment, Letan - ABC-Aid
Case scenario
• What do we already know about the disaster and the response?
• What preparedness activities would have helped?
• How might the effects have been mitigated against?
• Identify one area where you could ‘build back better’?
Degrees of sharing
Information
Joint assessment
s
Uses agreed tools
Agree common
plans and joint budgets
Each does own
Does not share
Each uses agreed tools
And shares
Joint planning
Each does own
And
shares
Individual decision- making