DISASTER MANAGEMENT
DIMERSAR is an acronym for DIsaster Management, Emergency Response, Search And Rescue.
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DIMERSAR TRAINING IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT "...Key to developing the affected communities ability to respond to disasters or reduce disasters happening in the first place, is that we must make these programmes sustainable...."
<-- Gary Foo
DIMERSAR PRINCIPAL
"$1 spent in preparedness and preparation can save $100 in response."
These are our specialitiies and key competenciers and we do this through consulting, training, advising, managing and leading and responding. We do this with governments, Crown Agencies, private companies, NGOs, Community groups and selected individuals who are involved in this area.
We plan and support operations, provide Disaster Risk Reduction, Coordination, Reduce risk, mitigate the effects of disasters and emergencies, and to recover from disasters. We also develop sustainable capacity development and Capacity Building methods.
Disaster Management has many faces and definition but oestensibly it is the organisation, coordination and management of information, resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of major emergencies where slow and predictable or rapid onset. This includes the 4 main headings (and several sub-headings) such as Mitgation, Preparedness, Response (including Disaster Relief Operations) and Recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters on people and their lives.
Disaster Management is synonymous with so many terms such as Emergency management, Disaster Recovery Management, Disaster Risk Management or Humanitarian Disaster Coordination etc, International Disaster Management requires many skills, functions, abilities and personal acumen.
SOURCE PHOTO: Taken by us in Haiti, during the Earthquake Response January 2010 in Port Au Prince
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DISASTER LINKS
We would like to highlight the contributions and information by many global experts, such as Mr Saroj Kumar Jha of the World Bank.
DiMERSAR
DIsaster
Management
Emergency
Response
Search
And
Rescue
There are many complementary activities with this such as Medical, Humanitarian or Coordination.
DIMERSAR not only delivers training and consultations in this area but also has a string international network of people and groups within specialised organisations.
Defining Risk
Hazard:
An external risk factor represented by the potential occurrence of a natural or man-made event that can occur in a specific place, with an expected intensity and duration.
Vulnerability:
An internal risk factor of a person, object or system exposed to a hazard, which corresponds to how it may be affected.
Risk:
The probability of exceeding a specific level of social, environmental and/or economic damages, over a predetermined period of time.
“Acceptable risk” refers to the specific value of damage a community is willing to assume.
Risk is based on quantifying the damage expected to occur from a specific hazard. It depends not only on the hazard, but also on the susceptibility and capacity of the affected to respond.
The equation R = f (A,V) means that risk is a function of the hazard and the level of vulnerability, and is directly proportional to both of these factors. In order to prepare an accurate risk estimate, it is necessary to analyze both the hazard and the level of vulnerability
Source: USAID Disaster Assistance Publication
