Unit 1-2

The Global Assessment Report 2015 states that the policy objective of anticipating and reducing risk is called

• Disaster Risk Management (DRM

• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

• Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM

it describes the actions that aim to achieve the objective of reducing risk

• Disaster Risk Management (DRM)

• Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM

• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR

It is something with the potential to cause harm.

• Hazard

• Disaster

• Magnitude

these are the kind of risks that subject mankind and his natural world to all kinds of tragic events that can end up taking everything.

• Hazard

• biological

• Disaster

It is the systematic process of using administrative directives, organizations, and operational skills and capacities to implement strategies, policies, and improved coping capacities in order to lessen the adverse impacts of hazards and the possibility of disaster

• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

• Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM)

• . Disaster Risk Management (DRM)

It provides key strategic actions that give importance to activities revolving around hazards evaluation and mitigation, vulnerability analyses, identification of hazard-prone areas and mainstreaming DRRM into development plans

• Disaster Response

• Disaster Preparedness

• Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

provides for the key strategic actions that give importance to activities revolving around community awareness and understanding; contingency planning; conduct of local drills and the development of a national disaster response plan.

• Disaster Preparedness

• Disaster Response

• Rehabilitation and Recovery

gives importance to activities during the actual disaster response operations from needs assessment to search and rescue to relief operations to early recovery activities are emphasized

• Rehabilitation and Recovery

• Disaster Response

• Disaster Preparedness

priority area cover areas like employment and

livelihoods, infrastructure and lifeline facilities,

housing and resettlement, among others.

• Rehabilitation and Recovery

• Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

• Disaster Response

Philippine National DRRM was formerly known as the

• Philippine National Disaster Reduction (PNDR)

  
  

• National Disaster Risk and Reduction (NDRR)

  
  

• National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council (NDRRMC)