CAPABILITY AND CAPACITY BUILDING DISASTER PREPAREDNESS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Trainings - ANSWERSSimulation drills and exercises allow for practicing information taught and instructed by the organization in an active way to better retain that information. tabletop exercises functional drills full-scale exercises - ANSWERScommon drills and exercises (3) Tabletop Exercises - ANSWERSactivities held in an informal setting, around a table, and guided by a facilitator Tabletop Exercises - ANSWERSpurpose is to test policies and procedures and evaluate disaster preparedness plans and processes. Different staff of the healthcare team are present to explore the response to a real situation Functional Drills - ANSWERSverbal drills that allow for reviewing and running-through plans, policies, and procedures Functional Drills - ANSWERSmainly for leaders and management. Functional Drills - ANSWERSsimulates movement of personnel and equipment in a classroom setting Full-scale Exercises - ANSWERSmost realistic and use a field environment to mimic a real disaster Full-scale Exercises - ANSWERSVolunteer victims, response agencies, observers, evaluators, and all the healthcare departments are involved in this type of simulation Full-scale Exercises - ANSWERSThese are the most complex and resource-intensive exercises due to their scale, the people involved, the systems tested, and fields staged Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management - ANSWERSCBDRRM Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Training with reference from the CBDRRM Basic Instructors' Guide (BIG) of the OCD-JICA joint project - ANSWERScomposed of activities, measures projects and programs to reduce disaster risks and are primarily design by and for people living in high-risk communities and are based on their urgent needs and capacities. It corrects the top-down approach; whereby there is a meeting of the bottom-up (community or local level) and top-down (national or higher level) approaches for the integrated and responsive disaster management system. Training of Facilitators on Community Risk Assessment through Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Analysis (PCVA) - ANSWERSThe training aims to develop / increase knowledge and facilitation skills on participatory risk analysis and accessing the vulnerabilities and capacities of disaster-prone areas. Further, it provides a venue to acquire appropriate behavior and attitude to facilitate PCVA. Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Analysis - ANSWERSPCVA Training of Facilitators on Contingency Planning - ANSWERSthe training aims to develop a pool of trainer-facilitators with basic competencies to facilitate the formulation of Contingency Plans towards building safe and disaster resilient communities. Contingency Planning Formulation Workshop - ANSWERSThe workshop aims to formulate a Contingency Plan focus on the major hazard of the community, municipality or province towards efficient and effective emergency response Evacuation and Evacuation Center Management Training-Workshop - ANSWERSenhance the capacity of the LDRRMCs to manage evacuation and camps / evacuation centers prior, actual and post emergencies. Specifically, it will provide venue for camp managers, members, and other key actors to level off and complement efforts to an organized evacuation and decampment Municipal Comprehensive Development Planning-Workshop / Strategic Planning Workshop - ANSWERSaims to formulate a 5-6 year plan that addresses strategic needs of vulnerable population and groups, identify priority sectoral developmental programs framed towards building safe and resilient communities Rationalizing the Local Planning System - ANSWERSRPS Rationalizing the Local Planning System (RPS) - ANSWERSa tool of the DILG to put order in the planning system in the Philippines as there are more or less 27 plans that should be prepared by the LGUs.