This area seeks to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to reduce risk and increase preparedness and response capabilities. This includes the development of integrated processes of disaster risk management, disaster risk reduction activities, and capacities to assess the damage resulting from an impact and to clearly define the resources needed.

1. RISK PROGRAM MANAGEMENT (RPM):

Purpose: To provide the knowledge and skills required to develop and manage programme related to risk, emergencies and disasters. The duration of this course is 4 days of intensive work. Course contents include the following materials:

1. Introduction
2. Risk Management Approach
3. Work Meetings
4. Planning
5. Organization
6. Direction
7. Control
8. Ideal Characteristics of a Risk Manager

This course is offered in the following languages:

1. English (English RPM Reference Materials - 653kb PDF) (English RPM Pre-Work - 300kb PDF)
2. Spanish (Spanish RPM Reference Materials - 2mb PDF)

2. DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR):

Purpose: To provide concepts, information, tools, and instruments that will increase the overall understanding of the subject of Disaster Risk Management in general and the topics of Risk Reduction, Transfer, and Financing in particular. The duration of this course is 3 days of intensive work. Course contents include the following materials:

1. Introduction
2. Basic concepts of disaster risk management and development.
3. Disaster Risk Assessment
4. Disaster Risk Reduction
5. Transfer and financing disaster risk
6. Plan of action
7. Final exercise

This course is offered in the following languages:

1. English (English DRR Reference Materials - 599kb PDF)
2. Spanish (Spanish DRR Reference Materials - 632kb PDF)

3. DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND NEEDS ANALYSIS (DANA):
Purpose: To provide participants with the knowledge and skills needed to make an initial assessment on-site of damage in the areas of health, life lines, housing and productive infrastructure; to perform a needs analysis and propose priority actions. The duration of this course is 3 days of intensive work. Course contents include the following materials:

1. Introduction
2. Risk Management Approach
3. Adverse Event Characteristics
4. Work Teams and DANA
5. Operations and Logistics
6. Data Collection Techniques
7. Information Analysis and Interpretation
8. Measuring the impact of an event
9. Establishing priorities

This course is offered in the following languages:

1. English
2. Spanish
3. French

4. DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR DECISION MAKERS (DANADM):
Purpose: To provide knowledge & skills necessary to be able to make action decisions during an adverse event, utilizing the information generate by the local level damage assessment and need analysis. The duration of this course is 3 days of intensive work. Course contents include the following materials:

1. Introduction
2. Risk Management Approach
3. Adverse Events
4. Damage Assessment Preparation
5. Information / Decision
6. Vulnerabilities and Capacities
7. Decision making level in DANA

This course is offered in the following language:

1. Spanish (Spanish DANADM Reference Materials - 1mb PDF)

5. INITIAL DAMAGE ASSESSMENT (IDA):
Purpose: To provide individuals who have been designated to conduct initial damage assessments, with the process and techniques necessary to perform the tasks satisfactorily. The duration of this course is 2 days of intensive work. Course contents include the following materials:

1. Introduction
2. National Disaster Management Programme
3. Recognizing the effects of Hazards
4. Preparing to Conduct an Initial Damage Assessment
5. Conducting an Initial Damage Assessment

This course is offered in the following language:

1. English (English IDA Reference Materials - 223kb PDF)

6. SHELTERS AND SHELTER MANAGEMENT (SSM):
Purpose: To provide the participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform the required duties for the operational management of emergency shelters. The duration of this course is 2 days of intensive work. Course contents include the following materials:

1. Introduction
2. Risk Management – An Introduction
3. National Program
4. The Shelter
5. Administration
6. Operations
7. Problem solving

This course is offered in the following languages:

1. English (English SSM Reference Materials - 1.13mb PDF)
2. French (French SSM Reference Materials - 1.08mb PDF)

7. EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER MANAGEMENT COURSE (EOCMC):
Purpose: To provide participants with the basic knowledge and skills to adequately manage the effective organization of as well as function within an Emergency Operations Center. The duration of this course is 5 days of intensive work. Course contents include the following materials:

1. Introduction
2. EOCMC System
3. Administration and EOCMC Relationship
4. EOC General Theory
5. EOC Conceptual Organization
6. Information Management
7. Operating Procedures
8. EOC Physical Layout

This course is offered in the following language:

1. Spanish (Spanish EOCMC Reference Materials – 2 mb PDF; Spanish EOCMC Pre-Work – 40 kb PDF)