🌍 DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT (DRM) — FULL COURSE OUTLINE

SkillBridge Institute

DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
Practical & Applied • World-Class Course

🎓 Course Level

Beginner to Intermediate (with advanced practical components)

🎯 Target Learners

• Community leaders
• NGO & development workers
• Project managers
• Local government staff
• Students & job seekers
• Disaster volunteers
• Entrepreneurs in risk-prone areas

⏳ Course Duration

6–8 weeks (Flexible, self-paced)

🧭 Teaching Style

• ✔ Real-world cases
• ✔ Community-based examples
• ✔ Practical assignments
• ✔ Simple tools & templates
• ✔ Simulations & scenarios

🌍 MODULE 1: Foundations of Disaster Risk Management

Goal: Build strong conceptual understanding using real examples.

Lessons:
• What Is a Disaster?
• Disaster Risk vs Hazard vs Vulnerability vs Capacity
• Types of Disasters (Natural, Human-induced, Biological & Health-related)
• Disaster Trends in Africa and the World
• Disaster Risk as a Development Issue

Practical Activity:
✓ Identify 5 common disasters in your community
✓ Simple risk mapping exercise

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📊 MODULE 2: Disaster Risk Assessment & Analysis

Goal: Identify and measure risks practically.

Lessons:
• Community Risk Assessment (CRA)
• Hazard Identification & Profiling
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Capacity Assessment
• Risk Ranking & Prioritization

Tools:
✓ Risk matrix
✓ Hazard mapping
✓ Vulnerability checklist

Assignment:
✓ Conduct a mini disaster risk assessment

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🛡️ MODULE 3: Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies

Goal: Shift focus from response to prevention.

Lessons:
• Structural vs Non-Structural DRR
• Climate Change & Disaster Risk
• Early Warning Systems
• Community-Based DRR
• Integrating DRR into Development

Exercise:
✓ Design a low-cost DRR plan

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📋 MODULE 4(PRACTICAL 1): Emergency Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) During Disasters

Goal: Prepare learners before disasters strike.

Lessons:
• Emergency Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) During Disasters
• Example: Emergency Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Emergency Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Template

Assignment:
✓ Develop a preparedness plan for a school, village, or business

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📋 MODULE 5: Disaster Preparedness & Planning

Goal: Prepare learners before disasters strike.

Lessons:
• Preparedness vs Response
• Contingency Planning
• Evacuation & Shelter Management
• Emergency Supplies & Logistics
• Roles of Government, NGOs & Communities

Assignment:
✓ Develop a preparedness plan for a school, village, or business

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🚑 MODULE 6: Disaster Response & Emergency Management

Goal: Teach emergency coordination skills.

Lessons:
• Disaster Response Cycle
• Emergency Operations Centers
• Search & Rescue Basics
• Emergency Health, WASH & Shelter
• Coordination & Communication

Simulation:
🔥 Real disaster scenario simulation

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🏗️ MODULE 7: Recovery, Rehabilitation & Resilience

Goal: Move from relief to long-term recovery.

Lessons:
• Early Recovery Planning
• Livelihood Recovery
• Build Back Better (BBB)
• Psychosocial Support
• Measuring Recovery Success

Task:
✓ Design a post-disaster recovery plan

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🏛️ MODULE 8 (PRACTICAL 2): Communication During Flooding

Goal: Understand communication during disaster.

Lessons:
• Principles of Crisis Communication During Flooding
• Setting Up WhatsApp Business as a Flood Communication Hub
• Automating Flood Response Logic with AutoResponder for WA

Exercise:
✓ Design an automated whatsapp system to be used in crisis

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🏛️ MODULE 9: Disaster Risk Governance & Policy

Goal: Understand systems, laws, and leadership.

Lessons:
• National & Local DRM Structures
• Roles of DRM Authorities
• Sendai Framework & SDGs
• Financing DRM
• Ethics & Accountability

Exercise:
✓ Map DRM stakeholders in your country

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💼 MODULE 10: Practical Skills & Career Pathways

Goal: Make the course job-ready.

Lessons:
• Careers in DRM
• DRM Skills for NGOs & Donors
• Proposal Writing
• Monitoring & Evaluation
• Technology in DRM (GIS, Mobile, AI basics)

Capstone Project:
🎓 Develop a complete DRM Plan for a real location

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📝 Assessment Structure

• Quizzes – 20%
• Practical assignments – 40%
• Final DRM project – 40%

📜 Certificate Title

Certificate in Practical Disaster Risk Management
Issued by: SkillBridge Institute