#Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Asia

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[ad_1] By Anjali Sharma WASHINGTON – India on Saturday has called to increase international collaboration on knowledge sharing, technology transfer, and sustainable development to enhance disaster resilience globally. Principal Secretary to Prime Minister P K Mishra led a high-level Indian Delegation, took part in G-20 Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group Ministerial Meeting from 30 October-1 November, held in Belem, Brazil. The consensus was reached in finalizing the first Ministerial declaration on Disaster Risk Reduction. Dr. Mishra shared the progress made by the Government of India in reducing disaster risks and in up scaling disaster financing in India. He emphasized India’s proactive approach to disaster risk reduction on five priorities of DRRWG, which were enunciated during Indian Presidency of G20 i.e. Early warning systems, Disaster resilient infrastructure, DRR financing, Resilient recovery and Nature based solutions. He shared the Prime Minister’s global initiative of Coalition for Disaster Resilience Infrastructure, which now has 40 countries and 7 International Organizations, as members. The Indian delegation took part in Troika meetings with the Ministers of Brazil and South Africa, and held bilateral meetings with ministers from the host country Brazil and other countries namely Japan, Norway, South Africa, South Korea, Germany, and Heads of invited International Organisations. Dr. Mishra shared experience and steps being taken, including the focus on promoting traditional practices to suit local conditions responding to the call by the United Nations Secretary General on Extreme Heat. The first DRR WG was established on India’s initiative during its Presidency of G20 in 2023. Dr Mishra, praised the  Brazilian Presidency on its continuation of the DRRWG, and scaling it up to Ministerial level and affirmed India’s support to South Africa on DRRWG on their upcoming G20 Presidency next year. India’s participation underscores its growing role in global DRR efforts and its commitment to building a safer and more resilient world. The post India calls for global cooperation to enhance disaster resilience appeared first on Global Governance News- Asia's First Bilingual News portal for Global News and Updates. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] By Anjali Sharma WASHINGTON – India on Saturday has called to increase international collaboration on knowledge sharing, technology transfer, and sustainable development to enhance disaster resilience globally. Principal Secretary to Prime Minister P K Mishra led a high-level Indian Delegation, took part in G-20 Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group Ministerial Meeting from 30 October-1 November, held in Belem, Brazil. The consensus was reached in finalizing the first Ministerial declaration on Disaster Risk Reduction. Dr. Mishra shared the progress made by the Government of India in reducing disaster risks and in up scaling disaster financing in India. He emphasized India’s proactive approach to disaster risk reduction on five priorities of DRRWG, which were enunciated during Indian Presidency of G20 i.e. Early warning systems, Disaster resilient infrastructure, DRR financing, Resilient recovery and Nature based solutions. He shared the Prime Minister’s global initiative of Coalition for Disaster Resilience Infrastructure, which now has 40 countries and 7 International Organizations, as members. The Indian delegation took part in Troika meetings with the Ministers of Brazil and South Africa, and held bilateral meetings with ministers from the host country Brazil and other countries namely Japan, Norway, South Africa, South Korea, Germany, and Heads of invited International Organisations. Dr. Mishra shared experience and steps being taken, including the focus on promoting traditional practices to suit local conditions responding to the call by the United Nations Secretary General on Extreme Heat. The first DRR WG was established on India’s initiative during its Presidency of G20 in 2023. Dr Mishra, praised the  Brazilian Presidency on its continuation of the DRRWG, and scaling it up to Ministerial level and affirmed India’s support to South Africa on DRRWG on their upcoming G20 Presidency next year. India’s participation underscores its growing role in global DRR efforts and its commitment to building a safer and more resilient world. The post India calls for global cooperation to enhance disaster resilience appeared first on Global Governance News- Asia's First Bilingual News portal for Global News and Updates. [ad_2] Source link

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Puluhan Mahasiswa dari Filipina dan Indonesia Bahas Perubahan Iklim di Summer Course UGM

BALIPORTALNEWS.COM, YOGYAKARTA - Sebanyak 23 mahasiswa dari lima negara mengikuti Summer Course on Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation (Eco-DRR and CCA) di Fakultas Geografi UGM pada 21-26 Agustus 2023. Dalam kegiatan yang berlangsung secara bauran tersebut para peserta belajar tentang upaya mitigasi dan adaptasi terhadap perubahan iklim yang resilien melalui pendekatan ekosistem. Tahun ini summer course diikuti peserta dari Filipina dan Indonesia yang sebagian besar merupakan dosen, mahasiswa Program Master ataupun Doktoral dari Fakultas Geografi dan Fakultas Teknik UGM dari Departemen Teknik Arsitektur dan Perencanaan. Kegiatan ini juga diikuti oleh perwakilan instansi pemerintah. Beberapa diantaranya Sekolah Tinggi Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika (STMKG) dan Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan (KLHK) Republik Indonesia. Pembukaan summer course dilaksanakan pada Senin (21/8/2023) yang dihadiri oleh 23 peserta dan narasumber yang berasal dari lima negara. Sambutan disampaikan oleh Koordinator Summer Course sekaligus mewakili Fakultas Gegorafi yaitu Wakil Dekan Bidang Penelitian, Kerja Sama, dan Alumni, Dr. Dyah Rahmawati Hizbaron, M.T., M.Sc., Lalu, dilanjutkan sambutan oleh perwakilan dari Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) Office. Dyah menyampaikan penyelenggaraan summer course tahun ini pertama kali dilaksanakan secara luring setelah terjadinya Pandemi Covid-19. Summer course kali ini merupakan kelanjutan dari berbagai aktivitas terkait Eco-DRR and CCA yang telah diselenggarakan oleh Fakultas Geografi UGM sejak tahun 2010. Summer course terdiri dari berbagai kegiatan berupa Short Course, Summer Course, Training of Instructors, Workshop, Webinar, Joint Research Project, dan Young Researchers School. Ditambahkan Dyah, untuk narasumber dari UGM berasal dari Fakultas Teknik, Pusat Studi Bencana, dan Pusat Studi Asia dan Pasifik. Selain narasumber dari luar UGM berasal dari University of Glasgow, Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) Kyoto University, Universita de Padova, UN Environmental Programm (UNEP), Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR), University of Nagoya, and Chinese Academy of Science. “Lewat kegiatan summer course ini diharapkan dapat meningkatkan upaya memahami data, kondisi lapangan, dan upaya mitigasi dan adaptasi terhadap perubahan iklim yang resilien melalui pendekatan ekosistem. Upaya ini sejalan dengan komitmen UGM dalam peningkatan kualitas pembelajaran baik secara luring maupun virtual sebagai World Class University,” paparnya.(ugm.ac.id/bpn) Read the full article

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From 1973 through 2017, Bangladesh’s three major rivers devoured more than 160,000 hectares of land. And researchers say river erosion is accelerating – driven in part by a changing climate.

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Climbing the Mountain in Japan

Climbing the Mountain in Japan

Mr.Takeshi Komino (on r.) General Secretary of CWS Japan with Dr. Ohashi, a pioneer in the development of the Non-Profit sector in Japan (Photo by Douglas Smith 2018) There continues to be surveys and accounts of the decline in attendance and affiliation with churches in the U.S. Although often characterized as evidence of the increasing secularization of the society, I believe this…

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Survival 101: A Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan

Barangay Pamplona Dos, Las Piñas City

The Philippines has a high vulnerability to natural hazards which attributes the country’s geographic position in Southeast Asia. Disasters like typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions ravage the country every year, leading to the loss of lives and millions of damages to infrastructure and livelihood. Therefore, all cities and barangays must prepare their Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Plan in order to be ready for disasters and lessen its negative impacts on their community.

14 December – I visited the Barangay Hall of Pamplona Dos in Las Piñas City. The visit made me learn about the different ways of how the community prepares for disasters and the rules and plans that they make to spread awareness to each member of the community.

Barangay Pamplona Dos covers 8 zones, and all of these have common experiences when disasters happen. Typhoon/Flood is the most prevalent disaster that the community experiences. On usual typhoons, they don’t experience too much damage since it is still tolerable.

One of the worst disasters that they’ve experienced was the Typhoon Ondoy last September 2009. It caused destruction of properties, loss of lives and experienced a lack of coordination in the medical assistance and lack of support from evacuation operations. Another one is a typhoon last 2006 which caused flooding to many areas due to lack of preparedness in case of disaster and unclogged drainage systems. Those who live in low-lying areas are the most vulnerable to disasters like this, most especially, they are the ones close to the community’s creek. In disasters like floods and earthquakes, they are vulnerable because of the unsafe design of some houses built in the community and the lack of knowledge and skills on preparedness and protective measures. In cases of fire, they are likely vulnerable due to poverty and lack of education. 

Ondoy-unscathed Las Pinas Has Different Story TodayABS-CBN News - https://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/metro-manila/08/19/13/ondoy-unscathed-las-pinas-has-different-story-today

The heads of the barangay were alarmed by the different difficulties that they experience in their community during disasters therefore, they implemented ways on how they can prevent these negative effects to their community. One of which is they conduct seminars to educate the members of the community about the different practices to be done during times of disasters. They also have a mandatory drill for them to be familiar with the evacuation areas and practices to take note in times of the disaster. They also implement the proper segregation of waste to prevent clogged drainage. 

Alternative Learning System 2015 Las Piñas East National High Schoolhttps://www.facebook.com/740189109411796/posts/late-uploadearthquake-drilllpenhsals2018alsisreal/1704648796299151/

The barangay also has its Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan which shows all the important things to consider to be ready in times of disaster. This includes their community’s profile and population so that they will be familiar with its capacities and vulnerabilities, experiences, and risks, the practices to be done, the evacuation procedures, and other preventive measures.

The leaders of the barangay aim for the safety and protection of all the residents of the Barangay in times of disasters that is why they provide a layout of the plans for their evacuation. They want to make sure that all will be fully equipped with the right amount of knowledge and skills to prevent such risks to happen.

Currently, the leaders of the barangay coordinates with LGU’s and Barangay Officials, conduct Rescue and Evacuation Operations and have a regular inspection of the physical state of their community to ensure its safety and to fix broken portions immediately. They also have a list of the breakdown of the equipment that they need for rescue operations. For each disaster, they have assigned different officials to lead the evacuation and safety practices and for the proper dissemination of tasks and responsibilities.

One of the issues that are on the heat in the community now is the unsafe construction and design of the houses. This makes the residents vulnerable to all the prevalent disasters that may affect the community. Also, some of those who belong in the informal settlers’ sector experience hardships in dealing with disasters due to their location. These issues are hot due to the complaints of the residents themselves.

When the local government hears about this, they can help by giving financial support to the community and by providing programs to help improve the infrastructures in the area to avoid the possibility of worse effects of disasters.

As we all know, our country is at the Pacific Ring of Fire and in between the Pacific and Eurasian Fault which makes it vulnerable and prone to disasters like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The climate change also affected the weather in our country that is why we experience sudden changes in the weather in most areas. 

Because of the widespread of the news of different disasters occurring around the country, the Philippine Government thought of improving and has successfully made significant strides in the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Planning and activities through the development of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) which acts as the lead agency for DRR in the Philippines. The disaster focal points are the NDRRMC and the Office of Civil Defense (OCD). The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is responsible for leading immediate disaster relief efforts. The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is a primary responder in disasters and have been deployed often to several disaster relief operations in the country in recent years. The Philippines has endured disasters that involve national and international assistance.

Philippines: Disaster Management Reference Handbook (march 2018) - Philippineshttps://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/philippines-disaster-management-reference-handbook-march-2018

Likewise, in a community, the leaders also study the area and analyze which among are the problems and how can they be able to help them in times of disasters.  They also give assignments of tasks to each head for them to make sure that they can monitor the population. They also provide alarm systems to make sure that the residents are well-informed if there is a disaster happening. They also make sure that they have coordination with those who can help them provide the equipment, food and medical assistance that they need. 

Disaster Preparedness and Awareness is highly prominent, for we all know that some happen unexpectedly. I was able to see the significance of each step in the plan to survive in disasters. Besides the importance of having a DRRM plan, it is also a must to ensure that everyone is being able to practice it because if they only know it through words, they may find it hard to practice and apply it if ever it happens in real life.

Our country is vulnerable to disasters so this should be a wake-up call for us to think of ways to protect ourselves from the negative effects of these disasters on our country. The lives of many people are at stake if we don’t get to be educated and equipped with the right amount of knowledge about safety during disasters. So, as a member of this community and this nation, I can help prevent by creating programs or participating in activities that will help ensure that each one has a share of knowledge to the capacities and vulnerabilities of the community.

 It is highly necessary to carry out, conduct and take part in seminars, programs, and drills that will help us learn and enhance our skills in survival. We must take into consideration the lives of the whole population because one wrong move or lack of preparedness may affect the lives of many.

 Disaster Ready, Live Life Safely.

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UNDRR, SM Prime laud women leaders in disaster resilience

SM Prime Holdings (SMPHI) recently announced its support for the global search for women leaders in disaster resilience.

For the second consecutive year, SMPHI is sponsoring Women’s International Network on Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) Leadership Awards, a flagship program of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

SMPHI Vice President for Corporate Compliance Liza B. Silerio said that the support is aligned with the company’s drive to recognize women’s leadership in disaster risk reduction. “This is important in inspiring other women to fully and effectively participate in promoting gender equality and empowerment while building our collective resilience.”

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction Mami Mizutori expressed gratitude for the support, stating, “The awards highlight the key role of women as leaders and agents of change in building resilience and actively participating in the creation and implementation of DRR strategies, policies, plans, and programs in their regions. Their stories reflect the diversity of solutions required to meet the converging challenges of accelerating climate change and disasters in the region.”

“We look forward to continued collaboration with SM in our DRR agenda,” Secretary General Mizutori added.

The WIN DRR Excellence Awards 2022  sponsored by SM Prime has 15 finalists shortlisted from 420 nominations received across 24 countries in the Asia-Pacific. The winner will be announced at the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction Brisbane on 21 September 2022. US$10,000 will be awarded to an individual woman who has achieved exceptional professional success in DRR. 

The WIN DRR partnership is consistent with SM Prime Holdings’ social commitment to women's empowerment, resilience, good health, and well-being of women. The company’s corporate social responsibility arm, SM Cares, supports programs that advance these causes.  

The Women's International Network on Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) is a professional network to support women working in disaster risk reduction, in all their diversity. Its overall goal is to empower women to attain leadership and enhance their role in decision-making in disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific. The WIN DRR Philippine Network is powered by SM Prime and Asia Pacific College.

Earlier this year, SM Prime through its SM CARES, partnered with UNDRR in celebrating women's empowerment through a webinar on the role of women in disaster resilience. In her keynote message, Mizutori emphasized that “women’s equal participation and leadership in public life including disaster risk reduction is important and it is also essential to reducing disaster risk in achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals.”

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ABOUT SM PRIME HOLDINGS

SM Prime, one of the leading integrated property developers in Southeast Asia, remains committed to its role as a catalyst for economic growth, delivering innovative and sustainable lifestyle cities, thereby enriching the quality of life of millions of people. Sustainability and Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience form part of SM Prime's core business strategies. It ensures that its risk-informed investments catalyze sustainable development and positive change in the communities where it operates.

For more information on SM Prime Holdings and its other programs for disaster preparedness, visit its website at www.smprime.com.

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Nominations for speaker(s) at Asian Local Leaders' Forum event, 2022 APMCDRR, Brisbane, Australia

Local leadership is among the most understated strengths of successful DRR practices. Recognising the immense role that local champions play and celebrating their achievements is critical. From emergency response to preparedness, anticipatory action to early recovery, the leadership in moving things along is demonstrated by the local communities and their leaders. The Asian Local Leaders Forum for Disaster Resilience (ALL4DR) seeks to do just that. The forum, launched at the AMCDRR in New Delhi in 2016 and a second successful edition in 2018 in Mongolia, is now seeking to celebrate and recognise leaders at the 2022 Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR), Brisbane, Australia.

At this stage, we are inviting recommendations for speakers at the event. We are looking for local champions who embody innovative thinking for risk reduction. These passionate individuals within their communities could be local representatives (informal or elected), volunteers, micro or small businesspeople, or even be part of a youth group. Ideally, they should be articulate speakers who can champion the role of local leadership in strengthening resilience and who are turning ‘Think Resilience’ into a ‘Resilience Movement'. The potential speaker would speak from his/her personal experience and would be recognised for their efforts.  

Due to logistics constraints, we can only consider speakers from among those already confirmed to attend in person at the APMCDRR. Shortlisted local leaders will be selected by an international jury and will be felicitated during a special local leader’s event at the APMCDRR.

Please send us your recommendations no later than Friday, 05 August 2022.

Fill the form by clicking at the link https://forms.gle/bwYFH9MXfWsjDyG5A

For such strong local champions who will not be attending, we would request you to still share their details in the format below the mail. Select case studies will be integrated into an opening showcase.  

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Bangladesh battles the country's longest-running floods since 1998

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Bangladesh battles the country's longest-running floods since 1998

Hundreds have died, and over a million find themselves displaced or marooned

Flood-prone lands at an embankment in Bangladesh. Image from Flickr by Rezwan. Used with permission.

The monsoon season has arrived in South Asia and has already ravaged large swathes of farming and urban areas, leaving millions who were already suffering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in financial ruin. Approximately 10 million people in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal have been affected by monsoon floods in 2020, the worst flooding since 1998. Over 550 people have died as a result, while over a million have been displaced or marooned. One-third of Bangladesh was underwater after torrential rains caused 53 rivers to overflow in June, when Bangladesh was just beginning to recover from the devastation left by Cyclone Amphan in May. Expat Bangladeshi M. Jubair Ahmed posted some images of flooding in the southern parts of the country:

Flood in Southern part of Bangladesh pic.twitter.com/iEdQOrkVCl — M. Jubair Ahmed (@MJubairAhmed1) August 21, 2020

Journalist Rafiqul Islam Montu wrote on the GainConnection website that:

Villagers lost their livelihood and have found no work, hence no income. Unemployment is rising. Cyclone affected families are struggling to get their daily food. There is an acute shortage of drinking water as well. The COVID-19 pandemic has made things worse, as relief supplies are affected. The west coast of Bangladesh is facing multiple disasters.

The voluntarily repaired #embankment was washed away by the pressure of the tide. People are floating in the water again. The embankment that collapsed in Cyclone Ampan was repaired at the initiative of the villagers. Picture of the west. #coastofBangladesh.@third_pole pic.twitter.com/EJMgN5qgcp — Rafiqul Montu (@ri_montu) July 24, 2020

According to Bangladesh's Ministry of Agriculture, BDT 13.23 billion (US$ 156 million) worth of crops have been damaged, and approximately 257,148 hectares of farmland submerged by floodwaters, affecting over one million farmers. According to UNICEF, more than 3.3 million people in Bangladesh, among whom 1.3 million are children, have been rendered homeless or are living in hazardous, unsanitary conditions. The devastation comes at a time when emergency and health services are overwhelmed with responding to the COVID-19 epidemic. 

Read More: COVID-19 is rapidly exhausting Bangladesh healthcare system amidst alarming rise of infected people

The impact of India's water management

India has built over 5,000 dams and embankments on transnational rivers, with many of these affecting the flow of water o Bangladesh. In the dry season, rivers such as the Teesta are reduced to narrow streams. When India opens its floodgates during the monsoon season, the added pressure causes erosion on river banks, affecting nearby settlements. Bangladesh has several longstanding issues with India around the sharing of water. The latest agreements signed in 2019 between India and Bangladesh have been met with criticism from Bangladeshi citizens who say the arrangements favor India, which possesses a natural advantage as rivers headwaters are located within its borders.

Experts blame India for prolonged flood in Bangladesh https://t.co/LYeeiY73Gk pic.twitter.com/w4kWWydjdd — South Asian Monitor (@S_A_Monitor) August 17, 2020

Two-step trigger system

This year, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) worked with International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) to implement a new model of anticipatory humanitarian action that aims to distribute humanitarian aid to potentially affected populations before a disaster strikes. The program has a two-step trigger system — a pre-activation trigger, based on the GloFAS forecast, and an activation trigger, based on the Government of Bangladesh's Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC). After the two triggers have been activated, the government distributes allocated funds accordingly.

It's finally happening! They call it #anticipatory #humanitarian #action. Interesting.. but what happened to Disaster Risk Reduction #DRR as a term? Faster than floods: How to prevent a double disaster in Bangladesh https://t.co/vZt0WQucbi — Minna (@MinnaAja) August 19, 2020

On July 4, severe flooding was forecast for the approaching weeks along the Jamuna River. The United Nations promptly released US$ 5.2 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for distribution among the communities most likely to be affected by the floods. Recipients of the funds can then prepare by purchasing food, medicine, and reinforcing their homes before the flooding occurs. Raquib Rony, who works at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Bangladesh office, tweeted:

81179 tube wells were damaged by the on going #floods in #Bangladesh. With the support of @IFRC, @BDRCS1 started to provide tube well disinfection services where the water receded. Families do not need to worry to go other places to collect drinking water.

BDRCS #Jamalpur Branch pic.twitter.com/cl3QaFTyfk — Raquib Rony (@RaquibRony) August 20, 2020

Climate activist Greta Thunberg announced in a July 28 tweet that she will donate 100,000 euros to BRAC, ActionAid Bangladesh, and other humanitarian organizations in Bangladesh and India working in the field:

Right now millions are suffering from extreme flooding fuelled by the climate crisis in India and Bangladesh – already hit by the devastation of cyclone Amphan and COVID-19. My foundation will donate €100.000 prize money to BRAC, Goonj, Action Aid India- and Bangladesh. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/oOMZ3jrhsV — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) July 28, 2020

Since July, Bangladeshi students have been participating in a digital campaign in partnership with Fridays For Future — Bangladesh, the national chapter of Thunberg's climate movement, posting portraits of themselves holding placards with demands and slogans such as “no future under water” and “mother nature shouldn't be drowned.”

#RT @GretaThunberg: RT @FFF_Bangladesh: Today's, FFF Barishal has addressed the biggest problem facing Bangladesh right now in their online strike. They want Permanent solution & recovery for flood affected people. @GretaThunberg @Fridays4future #Digi… pic.twitter.com/VL2TbluCWK — Travis 4 Climate

(@Travis4Climate) August 15, 2020

For many Bangladeshis, however, such tragedies have become normalized, cyclical events that people endure every year:

“Every time a flood comes, it destroys our house, crops and takes the lives of many. Everything is washed away by the mighty river Padma, leaving us without shelter, food or livelihood. But life goes on.”https://t.co/RyUoCMet45 — The Third Pole (@third_pole) August 15, 2020

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Makati highlights investments in building resilience at Seoul forum

#PHinfo: Makati highlights investments in building resilience at Seoul forum

MAKATI CITY, Oct. 4 (PIA) -- Makati Mayor Abby Binay on Monday presented to the international community the city government's strategy of investing heavily in building resilience to to minimize the adverse effects of natural weather disturbances on families, communities, and the local economy.

The mayor, being the only Filipino presenter at the International Urban Resilience Forum held in Seoul, South Korea emphasized that Makati was third in the world and the first in the Philippines to have formulated its Pre-Disaster Recovery Plan.

“Our city is susceptible to disasters caused by geological, meteorological, and technological hazards. We are committed to investing in resilience – be it in terms of knowledge, human resources, and physical assets, to mitigate the damage to lives and properties as well as the local economy,” Mayor Abby said.

The mayor’s presentation, titled “Makati City: Building Resilience at the Local Level,” laid out the city’s disaster management plans and strategies, which are focused on the following objectives: Reduce disaster-related mortality and injuries; Minimize the number of affected people; Reduce direct disaster economic loss; and Minimize damage to infrastructure and disruption of basic services.

The Makati Pre-Disaster Recovery Plan contains the city’s policies and activities from pre-disaster to post-disaster phases, including vital mechanisms and systems to be pre-positioned for smoother and faster recovery.

The mayor also presented the Makati Earthquake Contingency Plan and the Contingency Plan for Hydro-Meteorological Hazards aimed to address the needs of residents who live near the Pasig River and in some barangays that sit on top of the West Valley Fault. “The goal is to minimize casualties and manage damage that can be caused by massive flooding and a strong quake generated by the West Valley Fault,” she said. 

Mayor Abby also cited the legal bases for the city’s DRRM initiatives, including Republic Act 10121 or the Philippine DRRM Act of 2010, which is the basis of the city’s DRRM Framework, institutionalization of plans, fund appropriation, and implementation of programs. Other legal bases include Climate Change Act of 2009; Children’s Emergency Relief and Protection Act; and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Global Targets.

She said the city has ensured that its plans and strategies are aligned with those at the national and regional levels, with the goal of harmonizing approaches among the four thematic areas:  prevention and mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery and rehabilitation.

The forum, co-hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and organized by the Seoul Institute of Technology, aimed to provide a venue for local government units across the globe to share their DRRM best practices. The participants included mayors, governors, executives in disaster management, professors, academics, disaster experts, and urban planning specialists.

At the start of her term in mid-2016, Mayor Abby vowed to continuously build the city’s resilience in line with her vision of a “smart city” with sustainable and resilient communities.

To date, the city has purchased 141 DRRM vehicles to improve the response time and capabilities of police officers, firefighters, and emergency responders. 

The city has also installed 136 automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in public schools and the City Hall and 307 CCTV cameras, which are being monitored by Makati C3.

Over 500 emergency go bags have been distributed to families living in the five-meter buffer zone of the West Valley Fault, while 92,802 bags and 25,466 hard hats have been distributed to public school students in the city.

The city’s DRRM Office has also trained first responders, barangay officials, and volunteers on the use of AEDs, basic life support, rapid damage assessment and needs analysis training, restricted land mobile training, and institutionalized incident command system training.

In 2017, Makati established the country’s first DRRM Academy at the University of Makati, which aims to develop ordinary citizens into certified DRRM practitioners with the end-goal of transforming communities into highly resilient and sustainable drivers of local and national progress.

The mayor also recently bared plans to build a modern complex integrating the city's central fire station, police headquarters, rescue team and public safety department. The Makati Command Control and Communications Center (C3) will also be turned into an Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform, to be used in the development of an integrated DRR data and information management system.

For this year, the city’s total budget allocation for its Protective Services Sector amounts to P2.59 billion. This includes P800 million for its Peace and Order and Public Safety (POPS) Plan, and P900 million for its Local DRRM Fund.

In 2008, the World Bank recognized Makati as one of “East Asia’s Climate Resilient Cities�� for its environmental initiatives that address air, water and land pollution that degrade the environment. In 2011, the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction named Makati as a “Role Model City” in line with its campaign on making cities resilient. In 2012, the UNDRR cited Makati as one of the 29 model communities in the world and “exemplars in disaster risk management and reduction.” (PIA-NCR)

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* Philippine Information Agency. "Makati highlights investments in building resilience at Seoul forum." Philippine Information Agency. https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1028208 (accessed October 04, 2019 at 09:33AM UTC+08).

* Philippine Infornation Agency. "Makati highlights investments in building resilience at Seoul forum." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1028208 (archived).

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We see on the news that there’s money coming in, but where is it?

Indonesia tsunami rebuild edges forward, but not for everyone.

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JBA Broadens Access to Sri Lanka Flood Model to Help Bridge Protection Gap

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JBA Risk Management has released its Sri Lanka Flood Model onto Simplitium’s ModEx platform. The initiative is specifically aimed at broadening accessibility to the Sri Lanka model for both the insurance and wider disaster risk reduction (DRR) community.

The announcement follows close collaboration between the Insurance Development Forum (IDF) and JBA on modeling the Sri Lanka National Natural Disaster Insurance Scheme (NNDIS) – a state-funded scheme providing protection for low income Sri Lanka households, backed by the international reinsurance market.

The model has been converted to an open “Oasis” format and updated to include new vulnerability functions, specific to the low-income houses and micro-enterprises covered under the NNDIS scheme in Sri Lanka. The model, which is the first probabilistic flood model for the country, helps analyze the potential flood losses to the scheme and in doing so provides greater understanding of risk to the international reinsurance market.

Dr. Iain Willis, managing director, Asia-Pacific, at JBA Risk Management commented: “This marks a significant milestone in what has been a very fruitful collaboration between the IDF and JBA. Launching the Sri Lanka Flood model on ModEx provides a wider platform for the reinsurance market to access this model, ultimately helping build greater flood resilience in Sri Lanka.”

Ian Branagan, chief risk officer at RenaissanceRe, and co-chair of the IDF Risk Modelling Steering Group, said the model is crucial for a data-poor but flood-prone country.

“As part of our support of the IDF, RenaissanceRe is proud to fund development of JBA’s Sri Lanka Flood Model, its application to the Sri Lankan National Natural Disaster Insurance Scheme (NNDIS), and its conversion to an open source format on the Oasis platform,” said Branagan.

“One of our founding tenets is improving the understanding of natural hazard risk through robust catastrophe models,” he added. “We hope our efforts to improve analysis of risks like Sri Lankan floods will help to enhance disaster risk financing and community resilience in low and middle-income countries while lowering barriers to high-quality hazard and risk information.”

Branagan added that supporting the development of open source models can enable improvements in local modelling capabilities: “It encourages greater ownership of the understanding and management of disaster risk by government agencies, thereby fostering efforts to reduce the natural disaster protection gap.”

Sri Lanka experiences major flooding on a regular basis, with significant events occurring annually since 2015. Insurance penetration is low but growing, with total gross written premiums increasing 15 percent in 2017.

The Sri Lanka Flood Model is available on Simplitium’s ModEx platform as well as JBA’s catastrophe modeling platform, JCalf and Oasis.

Matthew Jones, head of product development at Simplitium commented: “This is a great example of successful collaboration in the industry benefiting the reinsurance community and can be seen as a pathfinder solution for other low and middle-income regions around the world. We are proud to be able to support this important initiative with our ModEx platform and help improve the access to cat models such as JBA’s Sri Lanka Flood.”

Source: JBA Risk Management

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Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter- September 2018

Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter- September 2018

  DRR and data in the news

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Shri Kiren Rijiju inaugurates the ‘India Disaster Response Summit’

The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju has said that India need to prepare itself for moving towards Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) from an approach of traditional Disaster Management. He emphasised that Disaster Mitigation Strategy should be areas of priority for addressing Disaster Risk Management. Shri Rijiju was inaugurating the ‘India Disaster Response Summit’, organised jointly by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Facebook, here today on how best to leverage social media platforms to 'prepare, respond and recover' for, during and after a disaster. Calling it a great example of execution on the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s ten-point agenda on Disaster Management, which has clearly listed harnessing technological innovations to create a culture of disaster resilience in the country, Shri Rijiju said, the world is moving towards partnerships, where people are proactively partnering with the Government in responding to disasters. This partnership is a benchmark and first of its kind – we are the first Government to partner with Facebook on disaster response, he added. Shri Rijiju also invited other technology companies to create tailored solutions for disaster-related challenges. Shri Rijiju said that reaching out to the people and communities is the primary responsibility of all stakeholders and efforts should be to make people aware, informed and to guide them during emergency situations. He urged community groups and stakeholders to find innovative ways to inform people on time in scenarios of Disaster Management. He said the efficacy of Disaster Management requires a well defined guideline and the role of media is vital when disaster strikes and even in executing rescue and relief operations. He exhorted the communities to come forward with new techniques of sharing information on real time basis for better handling of situation at disaster scenario. Technology can be leveraged in providing a quick response and information to people at time of need, he added. Shri Rijiju said collaboration with various stakeholders including NGO’s and private players could provide the necessary base for response with a vision towards ‘Capacity Building’ to handle disaster risk situation for addressing emergency rescue situations. He said that Government will act as facilitator towards information and communication among various stakeholders by helping evolve new modes of communication for better contact between the ‘Government and the People’. Shri Rijiju said that social media affects everybody’s life and common sources of communication through social media has played a vital role in day-to-day information communication, which needs to be leveraged in proper direction. Mentioning about earthquake resistant technologies adopted by foreign countries, he said that efforts should be in the direction of better planning towards evolving technology in line with better communication tools for disaster response planning. Speaking on the occasion, Shri R. K. Jain, Member, NDMA, said, the NDMA is proactively using social media for awareness generation. This collaboration is a milestone towards integrating social media with disaster response activities. He hoped this partnership will open new avenues for using mobile technology in disaster situations. Later participating during a panel discussion on the need for effective data analysis and tools, Shri Kamal Kishore, Member, NDMA, said, social media can help shape a future where, on the one hand, vulnerable communities become increasingly self-reliant and on the other hand, Government agencies have more powerful tools to get real-time feedback and reach out to people whom they seek to serve. Introducing the Disaster Information Volunteers (DIV) programme, wherein a network of trained volunteers would provide supplementary information on disasters in their local communities to assist Government relief efforts through the Facebook Workplace platform, Facebook Head (Policy Programmes) for South Asia, Shri Ritesh Mehta said we are aiming to empower communities by building products that connect people and create positive social impact. The programme will be piloted in two disaster prone states - Assam and Uttarakhand, he added. Facebook will now share its disaster maps, developed using aggregated, de-identified data, with NDMA. These maps can aid swift disaster response by providing real-time, actionable information. Senior officials of MHA, NDMA, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Central Government Departments, representatives of Facebook and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) attended the event. Read the full article

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Japan Asia Group Limited Review: Tsunami Reconstruction

We have been building a better and more resilient future for communities affected by the March 2011 earthquake/tsunami, based on Kokusai Kogyo’s social infrastructure development experience.

Disaster risk reduction

-3D laser surveying (DMC, LP)

-Various simulations, ocean short-wave radar

-Emergency communication systems DRR education

-Slope/dam monitoring/management

3D laser scanning (tunnel)

-Property tax/cadastral surveys

-GIS to manage. waterworks, sewage, road register

-Hazard maps, DRR planning

-Spatial information, surveying data archive sales

Geographic information system (GIS)

Immediate aftermath

-Aerial photography (nadir, oblique), Photo interpretation/analysis

-Detailed tsunami field surveys, CG tsunami simulations – rapid inundation analysis

Aerial photo by Kokusai Kogyo, Rikuzentakata City

-Local survey research

-Local govt. administrative support

-Survey of collapsed/washed away houses

Local survey research

Recovery

-Detailed disaster surveys, reconstruction planning

-Making maps for reconstruction planning

-Disaster waste surveys, making disposal plans

-Detailed disaster surveys, reconstruction planning

Waste disposal plan

-Survey of collapsed/washed away houses

-Management of house demolishing

-Waste surveys/developing waste disposal plans

-Supporting integration/use/evaluation of administrative data

-Developing/managing geographic information systems (GIS)

-Assisting community consensus building for reconstruction utilizing 3D simulations

-Provision/sale of tsunami simulation/survey/map data

Disaster debris analysis

Reconstruction

-Road, bridge, port etc. survey/design

-Liquefaction/slope stabilization countermeasures

-Radiation surveys/decontamination planning

-Survey, design, construction of renewable energy

-Recovery of industry (creating jobs for those affected)

Bridge survey/design

-Urban reconstruction plans (DRR/land use/urban plans)

-Development of basic urban infrastructure (land readjustment/victim relocation projects)

-Administrative support

-Development of integrated databases for reconstruction

-Renewable energy adoption for emergency power backup

-Eco town projects

Eco town

Japan Asia Group Limited Review

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