Risk & Resilience Institute

"..All societies, classes and social groups possess a distinctive “geographical lore,” a working knowledge of their territory, of the spatial configuration of use values relevant to them, and of a conceptual apparatus with which individuals and groups cope with the world. With this knowledge, people either choose to live in hazardous environments because they understand the environment and feel that the benefits outweigh the risk or they have little choice over where they live"

Come join us to know more about a project - Mili Juli - supported by ICCROM - conserving culture, promoting diversity, Svenska Postkodstiftelsen and CRRP.India, which tries to revisit the idea of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR)!

Catch Tanmay Gound, Saran Prakash and Rishab Goenka as they share their experiences on Saturday, 26 June 2021 - 12:30 - 14:00 PM (IST)!

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Chocolate Talk on DRR Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) - Re-inventing the spirit of Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) : Mili JuliSpeakers:Tanmay Goun...

Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) has always had a parochial interpretation, emphasising more on tools imported from distant lands rather than relying on one's culture - indigenous knowledge and traditional practices.
Even documentation followed a standard approach.
Not anymore!

Take a look at how Risk & Resilience Institute and CRRP.India, with support from ICCROM - conserving culture, promoting diversity and Svenska Postkodstiftelsen (The Swedish Postcode Foundation) changed the status quo!

Read Mili Juli -https://f5a2cf69-6b4b-4e71-b049-a2fc3731dd92.filesusr.com/ugd/cc3920_6d525fda6b2e44f69864a6f985bf8d9b.pdf

GIDM launches its 5 hours’ basic course on Disaster Risk Management (DRM)
The glimpse of the course is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SbVrUnSQag
The course is available on NeGD’s LMS Platform https://gidm.lms.gov.in/default.aspx, or, you can access the course through GIDM’s portal at https://gidm.gujarat.gov.in/en/learning-management-system

Happy learning!

Learning Management System | Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management, Government of Gujarat For long we have been taught that disasters are of two types, natural and man-made. Isn’t it? But very few of us are aware that, according to recent developments based on years of research, it has been proved that disasters cannot be natural?

Why Tsunami Day?

THE TRUE STORY BEHIND WORLD TSUNAMI AWARENESS DAY

Wakayama Prefecture is in western Japan. And it was there that a tsunami occurred on 5th November 1854 as a result of the Ansei-Nankai earthquake. And that is the date chosen by UN General Assembly to mark World Tsunami Awareness Day which is celebrated today for the 4th year.

Every Japanese school child knows the story “Inamura no Hi” or The Fire of the Rice Sheaves. The story goes that after feeling the earthquake, Hamaguchi Goryo, a local leader in the village of Hiromura on the Kii Peninsula, anticipated a tsunami would come when he noticed the lowering of the tide and a rapid decrease in the level of well water.

He guided his fellow villagers to evacuate to higher ground by setting fire to his precious sheaves of rice, knowing that the villagers would run uphill to help put out the flames. He informed them of the tsunami risk and told them to make sure that everyone left the village for higher ground.

Hamaguchi Goryo’s efforts to reduce disaster risk did not stop with this creative act of early warning. After the destruction caused by the tsunami, he financed with his own money the building of a five metre high and 600m long embankment. He also planted trees along the coast to mitigate the impacts of future tsunamis.

This early example of community-based disaster preparedness was a four year project which united the community, and provided job opportunities for villagers whose livelihoods and homes were affected by the tsunami.

Today, Mr. Goryo’s grasp of the fundamentals of disaster risk reduction are celebrated in this story which transmits to new generations the importance of early warning systems, the value of traditional and local knowledge, the need both to build back better and to invest in resilient infrastructure. He was people-centred and inclusive in his approach.

He wanted to reduce loss of life, the numbers of people affected by disasters, economic losses and damage to critical infrastructure.

And those are precisely the key targets for reducing disaster losses outlined in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 which was adopted at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015.

His actions continue to inspire the people of modern day Hirokawa town in Wakayama Prefecture where the embankment is repaired every year on 5th November.

World Water Day! Save some!

Water is an essential building block of life. It is more than just essential to quench thirst or protect health; water is vital for supporting economic, social, and human development.

Happy birthday SFDRR!

Happy 4th birthday to the the global plan to reduce loss of life, nos of people affected, economic losses & damage to infrastructure. These last four years have been hottest on record and seen a remarkable range of extreme weather events. It's available here free in eight languages http://bit.ly/2SjY9Fx

Look out folks!

Even a weak El Nino is likely to make 2019 warmer than 2018 which gave us:
Atlantic: 15 storms, 8 hurricanes
Western Pacific: 29 storms, 13 typhoons
Arctic sea ice: 2nd smallest annual max
Algeria: record 51.3˚C
France, Germany, Switzerland: record warm year