week 9 Man-made & natural disasters (Earthquakes) disaster preparation

Question 1

emergency kit supplies

Answer 1

• First aid kit, prescriptions and other personal items
  -Battery-powered or hand-crank radio
• battery-powered or hand-crank flashlight
  -whistle
  -emergency plan, copies or important documents and cash
  -phone charger & battery bank
  non-perishable food for at least 3 days
  -Garbage bags, moist towelettes & plastic ties
  -blankets, seasonal clothing ,footwear
  -water for 3 days, 4 L per person

Question 2

Sendai framework articulates the following:

Answer 2

• The need for improved understanding of disaster tisk in all it’s dimension of exposure
• Vulnerability & hazard characteristics
• The strengthening of disaster risk governance, including national platforms
• Accountability for disaster risk governance, including national platforms
• Accountability for disaster risk management
• Preparedness to build back better
• Recognition of stakeholder s& their roles
• Mobilization of risk sensitive investment to avoid the creation of new risk
• Resilience of health infrastructure, cultural heritage & workplaces
• Strenghening of international cooperation and global partnership
• Risk-informed donor policies and programs, icnldung financial support and loans from international financial institutions

Question 3

The 7 Sendai framework targets

Answer 3

1) Substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030, aiming to lower the average per 100,000 global mortality rates in the decade 2020-2030 compared to the period 2005-2015
2) Substantially reduce the number of affected people globally by 2030, aiming to lower the average global figure per 100,000 in the decade 2020-2030 compared to 2005-2015
3) Reduce direct disaster economic loss in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030
4) Substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructuree and disruption of basic services, among them health & educational facilities & develop resilience by 2030
5) Substantially increase the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategys by 2030
6) Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of the present framework by 2030
7) substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to people by 2030

Question 4

Sendai framework 4 prioirtiies for disaster reduction

Answer 4

1) Understanding disaster risk
2) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk
3) Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience
4) Enhancing diaster preparedness for effective response and to build back better in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction

Question 5

Mitigation

Answer 5

lessen the impact of disaster before it strikes

Question 6

preparedness

Answer 6

activities undertaken to handle a disaster when it strikes

Question 7

response

Answer 7

search & rescue, clearing debris, feeding & sheltering victims