Community and Health emergency Management

Dr: Khawla Al-HotiFamily physician.

Director of health services , Quriyat WillaytMRCGP,ARAB BOARD, Diploma in diabetes &Diploma Child Health

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Quriyat Willayat

77 Villages

Objective• Describe Lesson Learned From Community Based Approach

• Describe Willayat Health Committee Structure

• Describe vulnerabilities & capacity building

• List Challenges of community participation

• Design action plan for community project

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Definition

A group of individuals and households living in the same location and having the same hazard Exposure, Who can share the same objectives

and goals in Disaster risk reduction.

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“The local community is taken as the primary focus of attention (in a disaster reduction) since that is the common unit which is affected by a disaster and , more importantly ,responds to deal with the event.” Russell Dynes

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voluntary formation of community organization to implement DRR

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Lesson Learned• Community always try to adapt• Coping Strategies are often

inadequate• So, Training to enhance skills &

technological support is needed

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National

Regional

Willayat

Health Committe

Community Members

Community Support

Group

NonGovernmentalOrganization

GovernmentalSectors

VulnerabilitiesLack of:• Access to Health

• Access to Food & Water

• Access to Information

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When? How? whom? Where? What?

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If each individual does their part to prepare

Whole community will become safer andBetter equipped to cope with emergencies

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SEARCH and RESCUE BASIC PRINCIPLES 2 major components

SEARCH &RESCUETEAM(S)National

orProvincial

COMMUNITY BASEDFIRST RESPONDERS

INRESCUE ACTVITIES

(survivors/ Agencies..)

SearchRescue

Basic first aid and rescueSpecialized S&R

Training (preparedness)• First Aid, BLS• Safety (fire, road, electricity,..)• Drill, Evaluation and monitoring• Communicable disease (surveillance)

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Support Group

Support • Information centre (early warning)• Food & water (relief distribution)• Vulnerable• Shelter• Environmental health• Physical structure

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Health Education• Family emergency plan• School emergency plan• Livestock emergency Shelter• Public health measures

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Exercise1.Design action plan for the following:

Training Support Health education

2.List the challenges of community participation

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Thank Yuo

ADPC Indicators of a Minimum level of resilience

A community organization A DRR and disaster preparedness plan A community early warning system Trained manpower: risk assessment, search and rescue, medical first aid, relief distribution, masons for safer house construction, fire fighting Physical connectivity: roads, electricity, telephone, clinics Relational connectivity with local authorities, NGOs, etc. Knowledge of risks and risk reduction actions A community disaster reduction fund to implement risk reduction activities Safer sources of livelihood

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References• Building Disaster Resilient Communities, Publication of the

“local Network of NGOs” for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, June 2007

• Community based approach to disaster mitigation. Lorna P.victoria, director, centre for disaster preparedness

• Characteristics of disaster-resiliant community, A Guidance Note, Jhon Twig for the DFID Disaster Risk Reduction Interagency coordination group, August 2007