02 Basic Concept of Hazard, Exposure, and vulnerability Flashcards
(Basic Concept of Hazard, Exposure, and vulnerability)
What are the most vulnerable sector
- People whose capacities are low and insufficient
- cannot easily withstand and overcome incoming disasters
- Composed of supposedly “destitute” people
- Farmers and laborers
- Urban poor
- Indigenous people
- Persons with disabilities
- Women and children
(Basic Concept of Hazard, Exposure, and vulnerability)
Less vulnerable sector
- Members with capable capabilities based on their:
- Ability to acquire material resources
- Skills and trainings
- General position in society
- More well-off than the most vulnerable sector
- Composed of professionals, small entrepreneurs, and others
- They extent assistance and support to vulnerable sectors
(Basic Concept of Hazard, Exposure, and vulnerability)
Not vulnerable sector
- Sector having high position in the communities
- Mostly targeted by the other sectors because:
- They have high capacity
- They have less vulnerabilities
(Basic Concept of Hazard, Exposure, and vulnerability)
Physical/ Material vulnerability
- Location and type of construction and materials
- Land, water, and other means of production
- Infrastructure and services
- Human capital
- Environmental Factors
Basic Concept of Hazard, Exposure, and vulnerability)
Social/ Organizational vulnerability
- Weak or strong
- Leadership qualities-and structure
- Legislation
- Administrative structures and institutional arrangements
- Decision-making structures
- participation levels
- Divisions and conflicts
- Degree or justice, equality, access to political processes
- Community organizations
- Relationship ti government, administrative structures
(Basic Concept of Hazard, Exposure, and vulnerability)
Attitudinal/ Motivational vulnerabilities
- Attitude towards change
- Sense of ability to affect their environment
- Initiative
- Faith, determination, fighting spirit
- Religious beliefs, ideology
- Fatalism, hopelessness, despondency, discouragement
- Self-reliance
- Consciousness awareness
- Unity and cooperation
- Orientation toward past, present and future
(Basic Concept of Hazard, Exposure, and vulnerability)
Defining Capacity
Capacity is all the strengths, attributes, and resources available within an organized structure that can be used to achieve an agreed goal
(Basic Concept of Hazard, Exposure, and vulnerability)
- Ensure locally generated, owned, and sustained capacity.
- Development of drrr capacity should concern entire societies
- Development of technical capacities needs to be combined with other types
- An enabling strong political ownership and commitment at the highest levels of authority are essential for translating capacity into performance
Drrr capacities and coping capacity
(Basic Concept of Hazard, Exposure, and vulnerability)
Is the process to determine how people cope in times of crisis to reduce the damaging affects of hazards
Capacity assesment
(Tools for capacity assessment)
Reveal how people cope with adverse events in the past;
Historical calendar
(Tools for capacity assessment)
Visual representation of economic activities, coping strategies, availability of money and time, ETC;
Seasonal Calendar
(Tools for capacity assessment)
Shows differences in access to and control over resources between me and women in households and in the community
Gendered resource mapping and gendered benefit analysis
(Tools for capacity assessment)
Insights on the coping strategies of individual households
Livelihood analysis
(Tools for capacity assessment)
Formal and informal service structures for delivery of community services
Institutional and social network analysis
(Tools for capacity assessment)
Presence of service delivery institutions, balancing organizations, human resources, status of media, and availability, of disaster preparedness equipment will reflect the capacity of a community or district
Tools for capacity assessment
(Tools for capacity assessment)
Presence of service delivery institutions, balancing organizations, human resources, status of media, and availability, of disaster preparedness equipment will reflect the capacity of a community or district
Tools for capacity assessment
(Tools for capacity assessment)
An inventory of various equipment and human resources in the communities and district can be prepared
Tools for capacity assessment
