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Community Planning For Disaster Management

The document discusses the importance of community planning for disaster management. It outlines the role of village disaster management committees in creating awareness, guiding disaster plan preparation, and forming teams. These teams include early warning and communication, evacuation and shelter management, search and rescue, health and first aid, relief coordination, and water and sanitation. The community plays a vital role as first responders in the critical initial hours after a disaster when external help may be delayed. Communities are also important for risk reduction through education and initiatives with the government.

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Community Planning For Disaster Management

The document discusses the importance of community planning for disaster management. It outlines the role of village disaster management committees in creating awareness, guiding disaster plan preparation, and forming teams. These teams include early warning and communication, evacuation and shelter management, search and rescue, health and first aid, relief coordination, and water and sanitation. The community plays a vital role as first responders in the critical initial hours after a disaster when external help may be delayed. Communities are also important for risk reduction through education and initiatives with the government.

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Community Planning for Disaster Management

Role of Village Disaster Management Committee:


The BDO that is the main responsibility would be create
awareness amongst the community members so as to reduce
the impact of any hazard and also guide the community in
the preparation of the village Disaster management Plan.
We also need to have skilled people who are trained in First
aid and search and rescue. We need to enhance our skills to
be also to respond better in case a disaster strikes.
The BDO that is need to form Village Disaster Management
Teams (VDMTs). The team should have volunteers who can
be trained in basic functional areas that are critically required
in that situation.
There is a bit of serious discussion within the villagers as to
what were the different Disaster Management Teams that
were likely to be formed in the Village. The Doctor would
need help in the PHC to ensure that he can concentrate on
critical cases while First Aid can be handled by others.

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It is Possible that a group can do to come up with a set of
names for each of the following teams:-
Early warning and communication team.
Evacuation and Temporary Shelter management team.
Search and Rescue Team
Health and First Aid team
Relief Co-ordination team
Water and Sanitation team

Picture: - Role of village Disaster management Committee.

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Role of Community

The importance and need for community planning for any hazard
that is likely to occur in an area. During and immediately after a
disaster. It is most often the neighbours or people of the community
who respond first. They are normally with ‘first responders’ before
the affected the people can seek any support from the local
authorities of any Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The first
few hours before and after a disaster are critical and precious to save
lives and reduce further injuries. Often, external help may take time
to reach the disaster site. It is in this situations that well trained
community members play a vital role and are considered as
lifesaving assets.

Further communities play a vital role in risk reduction, without


whose education and involvement, a disaster management could not
be complete.

Mitigation measures that can be taken for various hazards. But to


effectively mitigate hazards that are prevalent in a particular locality,
there is need for the community to join hands and take up initiatives
along with the government.

The Government of India strongly advocates the building of


community capacities in various aspects of disaster response and
urges community to develop disaster management plans to prevent,
mitigate and better to combat various hazards. Teachers as educated
members of the society play a crucial rule on guiding and facilitating
the process of Planning in Communities, to reduce disaster risks.

1) First Responder: Since the community is at the site of the disaster,


it is first one to respond to it.

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2) Source of Maximum Information: When a disaster occurs in an
area, no one will have better or more comprehensive and ‘up to
date’ information on the people living there and its resources than
the inhabitants of that area.

3) Local Coping Mechanisms: Most disasters are recurrent; hence


there is always a traditionally established coping mechanism that is
handled down over the generations. This would Ideally be the most
immediate response measure for the local environment though it
could be the most immediate response measure for the local
environment though it could be improved through technical baking.

4) Self-help is in self interest: It would be the natural Instinct of the


community to respond quickly on such occasions since over
dependence on external resources may be time-consuming and even
ineffective.

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