Download Elements of Prevention and Mitigation

Scope of Prevention and
Mitigation (DRR)
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Human Development
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Improved access to education;
Improved access to health care and nutrition;
Safe housing and settlement structures;
Reduced gender inequality;
Institutional support structures for the weaker segments,
like, differently abled persons, old people and orphans.
Income, asset and livelihood diversification;
Access to social safety nets.
Sharing local and traditional knowledge, participatory
action research and social learning;
Building knowledge-sharing and learning platforms.
Poverty Alleviation
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Improved access to and control of local resources;
Access to skill-generation facilities and services;
Greater involvement in decision-making;
Access to banking and insurance cover;
Protection of land rights and share in use of common
lands;
• Recognition of traditional rights and coping practices in
regard to natural resources;
• Appropriate changes in cropping, livestock and
aquaculture practices.
Ecosystem Management
• Maintaining wetlands and urban green spaces;
• Watershed and reservoir management;
• Identification of other stressors on ecosystems
and of habitat fragmentation;
• Maintenance of bio-diversity;
• Protection of Village common lands;
• Community-based rural resource management.
• Protection of wildlife habitats and corridors;
• Effective disease surveillance and treatment
facilities for the wildlife.
Ecosystem management
• Use of new varieties of crops and changes in
cropping pattern;
• Knowledge-sharing on use of chemicals in fields
and monitoring of their impact on ecology;
• Effective irrigation and water saving practices;
• Soil health surveillance and management;
• Assisted species migration and dispersal;
• Creation of Seed Bank, Gene bank and other ex
situ conservation.
Spatial or Land Use Planning
• Managing development in flood prone and other high risk
areas;
• Express Zoning regulations for the ecologically sensitive
areas;
• Master Plans based on Intelligent Urban Planning principles
and enforcement of zoning laws.
• Building an informed community to check the
misuse/manipulation of environment protection laws and
rules;
• Social audit of industrial and commercial establishments
prone to cause air, water or land pollution.
• Identification/construction/upgradation
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Evacuation/Relief Centres for both human and cattle.
Structural safety
• Upgrading building codes and practices to ensure
safety of built environment;
• Exploring new technological options;
• Availability of open spaces;
• Effective storm and wastewater management;
• Effective solid waste management;
• Moving to Integrated Transport Management practices;
• Strict enforcement of fire and power safety norms.
• Promotion of Green Infrastructure;
• Evolving cost-effective retrofitting solutions and timebound programme for retrofitting.
Institutional factors
• Disaster Management Plans at all levels and their
mainstreaming ;
• Revisiting the existing laws and rules to align them to the
needs of DRR and adaptation;
• Simplification and standardisastion of processes and
procedures for timely and effective response;
• Creation/upgradation of institutional support mechanism
within every agency of the government to take care of
Prevention and Mitigation policies and programmes;
• Special focus on local self-government institutions;
• Strengthening of community level participatory planning
mechanism.
Institutional factors
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Building robust and credible Early warning Systems;
Comprehensive hazard and vulnerability mapping and monitoring;
Inventory of search and rescue equipments;
Creation of food and fodder banks and standardised process for their
distribution to the needy;
Mapping of health care facilities and ensuring easy access to the
information on available services;
Contingency plan for stockpiling essential medicines and medical
equipments;
Contingency plan for setting up field hospitals and movement of
specialists to the needy areas.
Improving damage assessment systems in post-disaster scenario.
Putting in place DRR-oriented financial services comprising Insurance,
Catastrophe Bonds, Payment for ecosystem services, Disaster Contingency
Fund etc.
Household level Action
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Education on safe building norms and practices;
Awareness generation about green technological option:
Familiarising with electricity and fire safety norms;
Education on water and power conservation practices and scientific
disposal of solid waste;
Familiarisation with safe evacuation plans and emergency services;
Awareness generation of appropriate crops and cropping pattern,
organic farming, eco-friendly agronomic practices, and diversified
livelihood options.
Education on importance of preservation of natural resources;
Advocacy about the role of every member of community in keeping
vigil and raising voice against factors that aggravate the risk of
disasters.