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National Institutions That Provide Capacity and Knowledge Support for Disaster Risk Reduction National Institutions that Provide Capacity and Knowledge Support for Disaster Risk Reduction 1 as of 26 October 2016 There is a range of national institutions involved in in-country capacity development for disaster/ emergency management and disaster risk reduction; some focus on setting policy, and formulating plans and programs, some delivering professional development training courses and vocational education, while others are focusing on delivering higher education courses in disaster management (DM) and/or disaster risk reduction (DRR). 2 Equally significant is the range of other institutions involved in professional development and higher education in related fields (e.g. engineering, architecture, medicine, nursing, social work, economics, agriculture etc.) where DM/DRR modules are added into their professional education and in service training. The Inventory of National Training Institutions identifies DM/DRR Training courses in 92 countries, including 90 countries whose cities officially signed up in the UNISDR Making Cities Resilient (MCR) Campaign. 3 The institutions, with the role they play in capacity development and a summary of the DM/DRR courses they offer, is organized according to the 5 regions of the world in Annex 1. The full inventory forms the basis of the analysis. 1 This summary is based on the 2014 project report Building Capacities for Resilience in Countries and Cities: Are National Training Institutions Capable and Prepared to meet the Challenges? commissioned by UNISDR ONEA-GETI and based on desk review and consultations with institutions and UNISDR Making Cities Resilient (MCR) campaign stakeholders. The desk review covered DRR capacity development by national governments, UN agencies, donors, regional intergovernmental organizations; websites and publications of training and higher education institutions, and DRR organizations database on PreventionWeb, as well as on discussions with officials from national/local governments, mayors, MCR Steering committee members, training institutions, universities, UNISDR and UNDP staff during the MCR stakeholder forum in Sept 2012 in Incheon, and the 4th session of the Global Platform in Geneva in May 2013. The inventory of National Training Institutions offering Disaster Management and Disaster Risk Reduction Training Courses and List of Regional and International Institutions Providing Training on Disaster Risk Reduction was updated in October 2016. 2 Disaster Management: The organization, planning and application of measures preparing for, responding to and recovering from disasters; Disaster Risk Reduction: Disaster risk reduction is aimed at preventing new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development. http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/terminology 3 Throughout 2010-2020 and beyond, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Making Cities Resilient Campaign (MCR), together with partners, aim to support sustainable urban development by promoting resilience activities and increasing local level understanding of disaster risk. http://www.unisdr.org/campaign/resilientcities/ 1 The inventory identifies at least six distinct categories of national training institutions (NTIs)4 involved in capacity development for DRR as follows: a. Departments within the National DM Agencies/ National Platforms that lead DRR Capacity Development elements of national programs on DRR that NDMAs develop, implement and coordinate b. National training institutions delivering training and education services in disaster/emergency management (DM) and DRR c. Universities offering education programs in DM/DRR d. National institutions providing DRR technical support, research, and knowledge management services e. DM Departments /Training Institutes of National Red Cross/ Red Crescent Societies, f. Other institutions that provide DRR/DM training service in country. Many national institutions receive technical support from regional and international training institutions and other development partners. Some explanation and examples of each of the types is as follows: A. Departments of National Disaster Management Agencies/National Platforms that deal with Capacity development: Institutional arrangements for DM/DRR been set up or strengthened with new or renewed legal mandates, and take the form of Inter ministerial mechanisms (Systems, Councils, Commissions, etc), often directly linked to the head of government, or specially mandated Ministries or National Disaster Management Agencies (NDMAs) who serve as coordinators of the inter-ministerial arrangements and have executive responsibility for disaster and emergency response and coordination of DRR in country. National Platforms for DRR have been established in 81 countries globally and serve as conveners of multi stakeholder arrangements. The function of leading national efforts for DM/DRR capacity development and having sustained arrangements for training and education is the assigned responsibility of a specific division of the NDMA, like those existing within the NDMAs of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Turkey, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden and Brazil. B. National Disaster Management Training Institutions: Many countries have had such organizations within the Government sector in place for many years, with their roles and responsibilities evolving over time, sometimes part of the NDMA, or as closely linked stand alone institutions. These organizations are directly responsible for delivery of training courses and capacity development activities nationally. Some prominent institutions are: USA: National Training and Education Directorate (NTED), Emergency Management Institute (EMI) of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Centre for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) In Department of Homeland Security; Australian Emergency Management Institute (AEMI) , Singapore Civil Defense Academy (CDA), National Disaster Management Institute (NDTI) in Korea (formerly Civil Defense and Disaster Management Institute of Korea) and well established national training institutions for fire, emergency management, civil defense and preparedness response and recovery in China, Japan and Russia. In many countries, national technical support and training institutions received significant and substantial legal mandates under recent DM 4 For the purpose of this summary all types of institutions included in the listing and typologized in this section are referred to as “national training institutions”. 2 legislation. Examples of such institutions mandated by law are India’s National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) and state level centers that received a strong legal mandate under the Disaster Management Act 2005, the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Training Institutes under the Philippines Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010, and Thailand’s national Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Academy (DPMA) under its Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Act 2003. Larger federal countries have established sub national institutions in their particular region or state such as the Indian states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Uttarakhand, CICESE s a technical support partner of the Baja California State Mexico, and a particular focus on earthquake risk in the centers in Chengdu, China and Kobe Japan. C. National DM Training Institutions: The following types of Knowledge Management, Research and Technical Support roles are played by above two types of such institutions: a) Undertaking analysis of trends in DM/DRR and the sector; b) Development of guidelines for disaster and emergency management practice; c) Documentation/analysis of experience on disaster management including lessons learned; d) Technical support to planning DM and DRR activities, risk assessment and utilization of results in decision making; e) Contributing to development of national disaster inventories and loss data bases. Examples of work done by such institutions from Australia, USA, Sweden, India, Brazil and South Africa are given below. Work on knowledge management and research by other categories of institutions has been commented on in subsequent sections. D. Universities offering education programs in DM/DRR: A large number of universities in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan offer such courses. Higher education institutions often take on a complementary role to the civil service training or specialized DRR training institutions at national and regional level, by providing technical support and guidance. In some case best developed in the universities of Australia and UK, there is accreditation of short duration training courses offered by the professional training institutions and recognition of prior learning and credit transfer arrangements. The last decade has seen a significant upsurge in the establishment of such degree and post graduate programs in universities and supporting national institutions for shorter courses in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In Asia universities exist in the countries of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. In Africa such university programs exist in Benin, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. In Arab states, university programs exist in Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Palestine, Sudan and Syria. Universities playing a regional role in education for DRR include the Asian Institute of Technology
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