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Presentation made at GWP-C's Disaster Mitigation Workshop held in Guyana in December 2009.
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Hydro-Climatic Disasters in Water Resources Management
30 Nov - 02 Dec 2009, Georgetown, Guyuna
Understand correlation between hazard, vulnerability and risks
Evaluate disaster risk reduction initiatives
Appreciate use of knowledge and information sharing to build safe and resilient communities
Hazards are part of natural environmental and normal life
Disasters reflect the ways societies structure themselves and manage hazards
Vulnerability is the measure of effect of hazards upon the society
DRR - reducing the vulnerability to the effect of environmental hazards to a manageable and acceptable level by enhancing risk management initiatives
What section of the population is most affected by disasters?
Why?
Vulnerability - people's exposure to hazards and their susceptibility to hazard impacts
Capacity - Collective institutional action to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from hazard impacts
What are the important dynamics propagating disasters in Guyana?
Location and extent Frequency and probability of occurrence Intensity/severity Duration of disaster Predictability Hazard environment
Successful disaster response plan require information and mobilisation
Challenges reaching people in different locations quickly and simultaneously
Right message, timely, sufficient and accurate
Maps a good medium for communicating hazards information to non-specialists
Formats and symbols should be kept familiar
Suggest some measures to reduce mitigate water related disasters
Seen in light of multi-thematic and multi-sectoral approach in the DRR process
Sound background knowledge on hydro-climatic hazard, risk and vulnerability
Incorporate disaster risk management in WRM framework
Hazards are normal part of environmental occurrences but disasters enhanced by poor planning
Poverty engenders vulnerability to disaster risks but disasters multiply poverty
DRR starts with risk identification and assessment of vulnerability to enhance decision making
Communication of disaster information should be timely, effective and where it is required