DISASTER

PREPAREDNESS &
PLANNING
P.Nagarjuna Reddy
 Introduction

Disaster preparedness and planning

• Ensures that people can respond to disaster safely and effectively
• Means figuring out what to do if essential services breakdown, developing a plan for
contingencies and putting that plan into practice
• Crucial for surviving with least damage
• May help save lives
 Objectives

• To reduce loss of lives and property damage

• Prevent economic disruption

 Ways of achieving

• Creating public awareness about safety from disasters

• Linking development programs to disaster planning
• Protection of habitations from adverse hazard impacts
• Preparing safety codes for prevention of technology hazards
• Creating a detailed database on hazard occurrences, damage caused to
infrastructure and economic loss
 STRATEGY
for
disaster preparedness and planning

• Purpose is to create a suitable institutional mechanism at national/state

level that would help in the formulation and updating of short and long
range action plans for the preparedness, mitigation and prevention of
disasters
• Should focus on capacity building at local and regional levels
• Should ensure developing a community disaster preparation program
 Components
of
disaster preparedness and planning
1. Early alert
2. Identification of risk reduction micro-projects
3. Vulnerability and Capability Assessment
4. Means of subsistence
5. Community response and emergency plans
6. Community first response and risk-reduction brigades
 Requirements of disaster preparedness

• Synchronization
• Public participation ( Volunteers)
• Consolidation (reinforcing, institutional analysis)
• Coordination (local authorities, NGOs etc.)
• Training (educational institutes, families, community members, small
enterprises)
 1. Prepare for a moderate sized disaster
2. Prepare for more common types of disasters

Principles of 3. Prepare for predictable disaster tasks

4. Adapt to routine emergencies
Disaster
5. Modular expansion
planning 6. Cost-sharing (Joint training, combined dispatch
centers, Joint purchasing of standardized equipment)
7. Executing the plan
 Involvement of Disaster plan users

To have successful execution of plan, the following initiatives have to be taken

up:
• Designation of positions rather than persons
• Acceptance of the plan( by the elected representatives, departments that are to be
involved, the public)
• Importance of the planning process (Participation of all those who are connected)
• Planning by the users (Central vs State)