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 How 2: Develop a disaster management strategy
You will be attending this 3-day life changing workshop, focusing on Strategic Planning and develop your strategic planning skills. On completion you will have addressed the current reality in your area and will have developed a Disaster Management Strategy and implementation plan to suit your organisations specific needs that will be aligned with the National Disaster Management Strategic Implementation Plan. |
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How 2: Develop a disaster management framework and get it adopted
You will experience a weeklong exciting workshop in your province, where to representatives of all the metros and district municipalities will be invited. Your current documents (if any) could be used and, with the assistance of Pat Reid and Ferdie Mocke, members of the drafting team of the National Disaster Management Framework, you will develop your own framework while developing and practicing your policy formulation skills. |
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How 2: Perform a DM current reality & gap analysis
When attending this 3-day workshop, you will learn how to conduct a current reality or gap analysis in your own area. The Disaster Management Evaluation Tool, as made available by the NDMC, will be used and you will learn how to apply your evaluation skills. Gaps will be identified and recommendations to fill these gaps will be made. |
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How 2: Obtain buy-in and commitment from politicians and senior management
In a 2-day series workshop, with the help of an experienced facilitator, you will learn presentation and negotiation skills. This will assist you in how to present your objectives in an acceptable and convincing way. You will learn the best ways in how to convey the importance of disaster management in your own community and organisation to the decision makers. You will learn how to identify and convince a “champion” to help you in whichever way possible to get the message across. |
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How 2: Establish and manage DM advisory forums
This 2-day workshop will assist you to establish, plan and facilitate Disaster management Advisory Forums. You will learn how to develop a Terms of Reference, how to invite the appropriate role players and stakeholders; how to plan meetings, as well as prepare and present progress reports. You will also be able to Establish Technical Task Teams and facilitate multi-disciplinary task teams. All this will be done using the comprehensive facilitation skills that you will be taught during this existing workshop. |
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How 2: Build high performance teams
In this 2-day workshop on team building and inter-personal skills, you will be equipped to cope with all team related activities. You will learn how to place yourself in a specific team role according to your abilities and temperament. You’ll be able to develop action plan to improve teamwork and explain the benefits and provide guidelines for successful diversity management. |
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How 2: Plan & achieve community participation in DM planning
In this 2-day workshop you will be exposed to and equipped with community communication skills. Communication skills are the most important skills of any person interacting with communities and are often neglected. During this workshop the emphasis will be on insight into community dynamics and the application of various communication skills in order to convey a clear message and achieve the full commitment and participation of your community in the Disaster Risk Management Planning process. |
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How 2: Empower your staff through personal development planning
One of the most important aspects of skills development is succession planning. Especially in the Disaster Risk Management field, you should always be ready to hand over you duties to someone else, or function in another role when needed. In this 2-day workshop you will learn all about mentoring and coaching requirements, process and methodologies. You will also learn how to engage in a mentor-protégé relationship, plan mentoring interventions and affectively mentor a protégé. |
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How 2: Plan & conduct community based risk assessment
As part of the community focus in Disaster risk Management, it is essential to be able to facilitate and conduct community based risk assessment. During this 3+2-day workshop, you will not only learn the principles of risk assessment and methodologies applied to community based risk assessment, but will have the opportunity to apply it in practice. You will acquire the skill on how to compile a comprehensive risk assessment profile based on identified hazards, defined vulnerabilities and available capacity. Practical and easy to use GIS and “mutual” assessment tools will be used to assist you to acquire this essential risk assessment skill. |
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How 2: Plan & exercise contingency plans
After completion of this 2-day interactive workshop you will be able to apply your scenario planning and simulation skills to develop and exercise disaster management contingency plans. This will include the processes to plan and execute an effective exercise programme to ensure effective response during and after disasters. |
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How 2: Plan & execute risk reduction projects
Legislation puts a large emphasis on risk reduction. This 2-day workshop will focus primarily on development of project management skills enabling you to plan, scope, manage and execute risk reduction project in an effective and efficient manner. The very practical and interactive workshop will provide you with the knowledge, skills and attitude necessary to lead risk reduction in the true sense of the word … by examples based on practical skills. |
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How 2: Integrate Disaster Management and IDPs
Disaster Risk Management and Development is synonym. Disaster Management plans should be incorporated into the IDPs and this requires specific skills and a very practical approach. This 3+2-day workshop will provide with the opportunity to acquire integration management skills, enabling you not only to develop both disaster management and integrated development plans, but to integrate it into a well balanced and acceptable “community resilience” development plan. |
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| How 2: Introduce DRM to specific target groups: |
- Executive Workshop
This ½ day or 1-day workshop (depending on the needs of the client and availability of executives) is aimed at obtaining the commitment and buy-in of executive and senior management (e.g. Municipal Managers and Heads of Departments) and providing them with a strategic overview of disaster risk management. It will provide a solid platform for the participants to be able to manage and oversee the development and implementation of a disaster risk management programme within their respective areas of responsibilities.
On completion, the participants will have a strategic overview of the legal obligation and financial need for disaster risk management and the associated planning and responsibilities; will understand the basic principles of disaster risk management and a disaster management programme and how it apply in their area of responsibility and will be able to oversee a basic disaster risk and vulnerability assessment and participate in effective risk reduction and mitigation strategies, programmes and projects. The participants will be able to describe the relationship between disaster management, development and service delivery; the need for a disaster risk management framework and implementation strategy. They will be able to take on leadership roles and be in the position to make informed decisions in terms of investment in disaster risk management and also the integration thereof into the normal service delivery obligations. |
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- Municipal Managers & HODs
This 1-day workshop will follow the format and content of the Executive Workshop. The only difference between the two will be that the legal obligations of the Municipal Managers & HODs will be emphasised. On completion, they will have reached all the outcomes mentioned above. They will also understand that disaster risk management is a continuous and integrated multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary process of planning and implementation of measures aimed at the prevention or reduction of the risk of disasters; the mitigation of the severity or consequences of disasters; emergency preparedness; a rapid and effective response to disasters; and post-disaster recovery and rehabilitation. |
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- Community Leaders
Community leaders, councillors and ward committee members are very important in an integrated disaster risk management programme. They interpret the needs of the people and are ultimately accountable for service delivery. It is therefore crucial that all community leaders have a clear understanding of disaster management and how that can assist them to achieve the community and their personal goals.
On completion of this 2-day workshop, the participants will be able to explain the basic requirements of the Act and the NDMF applicable on the municipal's sphere of government and specifically as applicable to community leaders; describe the requirements of the Act in terms of creating institutional capacity with special reference to primary and secondary responsibilities, joint planning structures and cooperation agreements and the role of community leaders; assist to perform a basic hazard and vulnerability exercise in their area of responsibility; explain the process involved in risk reduction planning and describe the response and recovery planning process and define the basic elements required in such plans as applicable for community leaders. The participants will also be able to assist in assessing the status of the disaster risk management programme in a community and will be able to make informed decisions in terms of investment decisions or recommending corrective actions. |
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- Volunteers
Volunteers are not only the first line of response during disasters, but they also play a major role in community awareness creation, risk reduction planning and providing basic capacity to improve community resilience.
On completion of this 2-day workshop, the participants will be able to explain the basic requirements of the Act and the NDMF applicable on municipals sphere of government and specifically as applicable to volunteers; describe the requirements of the Act in terms of creating institutional capacity with special reference to primary and secondary responsibilities, joint planning structures and cooperation agreements and the role of volunteers; assist the organ of state to perform a basic hazard and vulnerability exercise; explain the process involved in risk reduction planning; describe the response and recovery planning process and define the basic elements required in such plans as applicable for volunteers and describe how volunteers should be managed. |
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- Community Development Workers (CDWs)
Development and disaster management are two sides of the same coin. The community development worker could therefore be a very valuable resource for disaster management – if he/she is properly capacitated and trained.
After completion of this 3-day workshop, CDWs will be able to explain the relationship between sustainable development and disaster risk management and apply it in their work environment; describe basic disaster risk management terminology and principles; assist in a basic community based risk assessment and advise on basic risk reduction and response plans in the communities. Armed with these basic skills the CDWs will be able to enhance their own role as community development agents and make a valuable contribution towards integrating disaster risk management into all developmental initiatives in their respective communities, including IDPs. |
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How 2: Facilitate a workshop (train the trainer)
All people have valuable experience and knowledge – the role of the facilitator is to validate these experiences and to add new information to this experience-knowledge base. Through adequate outcomes-based education, training and awareness programmes and learning opportunities, facilitated by competent facilitators, the likelihood of disasters and the subsequent impact can be substantially reduced. Practical skills to facilitate advisory forums, risk reduction work groups, planning sessions, problem solving, workshops and community forums will provide you the ability to successfully implement the Disaster Management Act and the National Disaster Management Framework's requirements.
The 3-day course includes the following key topics:
• Assessment of Existing Competencies
• Basic Principles of Facilitation
• Group Dynamics
• Communication Skills
• Preparing and Planning for Effective Facilitation
• Co-facilitation
• Assessment of the Facilitation Session |
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Accreditation
Due to our relationship with UNISA and the fact that all the material is also contained in the full “UNISA Programme in Disaster Management”, UNISA will issue attendance certificates to participants in these workshops until the material that has been submitted to the LG SETA has been accredited. |
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