Disaster Risk Assessment and Hazard Assessment

1. Facilitated By: KhydijaWakeel Disasters Risk Assessment Date: 10 October, 2009 Courtesy: FalakNawaz (ADPC)

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4. What is Disaster Risk Assessment ?? You already know what is a RISK…. Assessment is a participatory process undertaken in phases and involving on spot collection, interpreting and analyzing of information from sources. Disaster risk assessment at community level is Hazards, Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment

5. What is Disaster Risk Assessment ?? DRA involves a participatory analysis and combination of both scientific and empirical data concerning the probabilities of hazards in particular area, the negative effects expected to result to each element at risk for each particular hazard and considering the coping mechanism Risk assessment is a structured analytical procedure to identify hazard and to estimate the probability of their occurrence and the consequences in the lights of the conditions. These estimates are then compared with a standard or criterion in order to decide whether or not action is desirable, to reduce the probabilities or to protect people property or environment

6. Disaster Risk Assessment Process Hazard Assessment Vulnerability Assessment Capacity Assessment Risk Perception

9. Risk Assessment How to assess the risk Hazard Types Low Capacity High Vulnerable Hazard Impact Mitigation Plans

10. Objectives and Outputs of Disaster Risk Assessment

11. HAZARD ASSESSMENT Courtesy:FalakNawaz (ADPC)

12. The purpose is to specify the nature and behavior of the potential hazards and threats people face Hazard assessment means the identification of hazards in given location (D&E Reference Conference 1998) Hazard Assessment is a process of estimating, for defined areas, the probabilities of the occurrence of potentially damaging phenomenon of given magnitude within a specified period of time (Simeon Institute 1998)

13. The process of studying the nature of hazards determining its essential features (degree of severity, duration, extent of the impact area) and their relationship

14. Types of Hazards

17. Factors to consider in understanding the nature & behavior of hazards Origin Factors which create, result in a hazard. Can be natural or man made Warning Signs and signals Scientific & indigenous indicators that hazard is likely to occur Rainfall duration, intensity, quantity, speed of wind, temperature, movement of animals, insects and birds Forewarning Time gap between warning signs & the impact of hazard Relatively short but can vary from a few hours (over-night) to a few days

19. Tools for Hazard Assessment Hazard Maps: To locate the probable area covered by a hazard’s impact and the elements at risk Historical Profile or timeline: Can make us understand how hazards have changed over time; which hazards have happened in the past or the start of particular hazard occurrence Seasonal calendar: Visualizes the ti,e. frequency and duration of common hazards Hazard matrix Helps to systemize information on the characterizes of hazards, specifically warning signs and signals, forewarning, speed of onset, frequency, period of occurrence and duration

21. Hazard Matrix

23. Historical profile

24. Time Line

25. Seasonal calendar

26. Hazard Assessment Matrix

28. References Training material from UNDP/NDMA for Disaster Risk Management Training