Local Disaster Risk Reduction Plan Example

This example is based on an imaginary city called Xuagram.

Essential 7: Understand and strengthen societal capacity for resilience.

Social connectedness and a culture of mutual help has a major outcome on the impact of disasters of any given magnitude.

# OBJECTIVE/ WORK ACTION INDICATORS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILITY

AREA
1 Improve students - Organize a day for public schools of 7.3.2 Is DRR included in By January 2017 Xuagrams city
knowledge of DRR Xuagram to inform students on behavior to school curricula, community The teaching material needs to official in charge for
adopt in case of emergency based trainings and be ready by October 2016 so education
- Make sure that schools have a fire exit education? that it reaches schools by 2017.
and evacuation drill Schools need to make sure they
have a fire exit by September
2016 and schedule an
evacuation drill by January 2017

2 Improve the presence - Promote resilience training in enterprises 7.3.3 Is DRR prevalent in By August 2017 Xuagrams city
of DRR in the and make sure that employers are aware of the private sector and does official in charge of
business sector and talk about DRR to their employees. the city support and business and
promote business economy
continuity?

3 Improve social - Implementation of a phone number (free
assistance program of charge) so that people from more
for the citys vulnerable parts of the city can receive
vulnerable population. assistance from the local government and
information on what services are available
for them
- Communication campaign promoting the
services available for the most vulnerable in
the city
- Construction of a new social center in the
neighborhood of Enilema (most vulnerable
neighborhood of the country)
4
5
6
7.1.1 Are healthcare and
social assistance programs
available and sufficient?
In particular, Q-81: Are
social assistance programs
available and adequate to
the needs of the citys 2016
vulnerable population
The phone number should be up Xuagrams city
and running by July 2016 official in charge of
Community Services
The communication campaign Xuagrams city
will be designed over the official in charge of
summer and start in September Planning and
Infrastructure
The center will open in January
2018
 Local Disaster Risk Reduction Plan Example

The table is not entirely filled-in, because not all criteria presented in Essential 7 are relevant to the city of Xuagram. For example 7.2 is not
relevant to the city of Xuagram, as theres already a high degree of social cohesion between people in the city, and a grassroots network of
collaboration and participation, in particular in disaster resilience building.

Row 1 commented:
- The Objective/Work area column is meant for you to input your ideas on what needs to be improved in order to reach the ten
essentials.
For example: Youve noticed that nothing is being done in Dublin to improve the knowledge of DRR of the local population (so if they will
react properly in case of emergency), so your objective will be to improve the local populations knowledge of DRR.

- Then, you will use the Action Column to describe what your local government will do to address this objective. Following the same
example, you could say: Organize a day for the public schools of Dublin to inform them on which behavior to adopt in case of emergency

- To fill in the Indicators column, you will have to refer to the Draft Local Urban Indicators for DRR. Following on the education
example: Educating the population will be measured when assessing Essential 7 Understand and strengthen societal capacity for
resilience, especially 7.3.1 Are the general public aware of local hazard and how to prepare and react in an emergency?

- Timeframe: You have to pick a deadline; it has to be quite realistic. For example, for educating children = I need to find a specialist, to
design the course (teaching material, pamphlets) and then to organize a special day in all public schools in the country. I can either say I
want it to be quite fast, starting September 2016 or maybe be slightly more realistic and say it will start in January 2017.

- Responsibility: The person in your local government that will be responsible for the task. Ex: Dublins city official in charge for
education