Welcome to the Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Course
Entitled “Lahat Dapat Handa (Everyone should be prepared): Strengthening Resilience through Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DiDRR)”
We are thrilled to welcome you to this 2.5-hour course that aims to explore the intersection of disability and disaster risk reduction and management.
Course Objectives
The primary objective of this course is to deepen your understanding of the critical importance of disability-inclusive approaches in disaster risk reduction and management. Moreover, this course will provide you with practical ways on how to implement DiDRR in the Philippine setting, and also at the local level – at the provincial, city/ municipality and barangay levels. Over the course modules, key concepts, strategies, and best practices on DiDRR will be tackled.
Target Course Takers
DRR policy makers are the primary change agents in the community; thus, this course is designed for policy makers at the national and local levels. National policy makers include staff, heads and officials of the Office of the Civil Defense and members of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Local policy makers include councilors and chief executives (governor, mayors, and barangay captains).
As DiDRR needs a concerted effort, this course also targets disability policy makers, organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), disability advocates and their allies, nonprofit organizations, foundations, humanitarian workers and other private organizations involved in disaster resilience initiatives.
Whether you already consider yourself an expert or a newbie on DiDRR, this course is for you. It is because – LAHAT DAPAT HANDA!
Instructions
Select ‘Start Course’ to begin.
Note: Your progress is being saved. In order to complete the course, you are required to view the lessons in sequential order. This course provides an accessible experience and is optimized for screen readers. At the end of the course, you will get a certificate issued by the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
The annex lists resources and shares a references
Accessibility Notice
Userway accessibility is enabled and can be accessed from the bottom left corner. Text-to-Speech accessibility is enabled and can be accessed from the bottom right corner.Users can also access voiceover from the keyboard. Shift and V for increasing the speed of the voice, Shift and C key for decreasing the speed of the voice. Shift and P is to play/pause the voiceover and Shift and S is to stop the voiceover.
Data Privacy Notice
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Acknowledgement
This DiDRR e-learning course entitled “Lahat Dapat Handa (Everyone should be prepared): Strengthening Resilience through Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction”, was prepared under the overall guidance of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), particularly by Aiko Akiyama and Madhurima Sarkar-Swaisgood.
Valuable input and research support was provided by colleagues from ESCAP: Alysha Brahmantiara Putri, Flora Cheung and Celine Dimperio.
The team wishes to acknowledge insightful ideas and contributions from the Office of Civil Defense headed by Undersecretary Ariel F. Nepomuceno, particularly colleagues from the Civil Defense Training Institute, Director Eugenio A. Gepte, Jr. and Aurora May Cabañeros. The team would also like to thank the suggestions and valuable recommendations from colleagues from the National Council on Disability Affairs, particularly by Executive Director Glenda de Rama Relova, and Mr. Dandy Victa.
This e-learning module had been developed by Katherine Velmonte (National Consultant from A2D Project) and Jopen Espinol (Web Developer). Illustrations throughout the module were produced by Victor Cantal and Katherine Velmonte.