Summary
The Diploma Programme aims at assisting in training government departments and agencies at various administrative levels to enable them to prepare disaster management plans, generate risk maps using qualitative and quantitative methods, adequately prepare for and prevent or mitigate hazard impacts, develop and implement policies and effective corporate governance related to disaster. It also provides guidance on effective communication, coordination, collaboration and cooperation in performing roles and responsibilities in times of disaster in order to build community resilience and ensure that impacts are minimised by an efficient and effective disaster response. It identify and map out various hazards in their areas of jurisdiction, identify groups that are vulnerable to those hazards, and the potential danger posed by the hazard to the groups and area at large. It explains the nexus among strategies for disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation. It also describes the importance of pre-disaster activities on the occurrence, scope and impact of disaster.
Disaster Communication and crisis counselling are covered in order to presents the importance of information sharing at the various stages in the disaster risk management process. Disaster types in your country and areas of development that usually affected by disasters in your country are discussed so as to enable participants familiarise themselves with past disasters, their levels of impact on development activities and efforts for controlling the disasters.
Lastly the programme looks at Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Development Efforts in order to explain how disaster risk management can be incorporated into mainstream development interventions and programmes and high lights the importance of regulations and resource mobilisation in Disaster Risk Reduction.
Objectives of the program are to:
- Provide comprehensive knowledge to the learners on disaster preparedness, prevention, management mitigation and rehabilitation.
- Enable the learners to carry out risk assessment and vulnerability analysis.
- Generate community awareness, and strengthen institutional mechanism for community mobilization and participation in disaster management.
- Develop communication skills for disaster preparedness.
- Create greater awareness about effective disaster response in various emergency situations.
Target Group
- Civil servants, NGO functionaries and volunteers, home guards, police, and civil defense personnel
- Engineers, administrators and other government and public sector undertakings officials.
- Rural development functionaries, primary health centers workers, relief workers, social workers, environmentalists etc
- All those who may fulfill the basic eligibility requirement
Mode of Assessment:
Students will be assessed by use of:
- Written essays /Assignments -50%
- Project work –Written work 30%, presentation 20%
Award of Certificate
A candidate who satisfy the Board of examiners in all the examinations and other course requirement shall, on the recommendation of the Board of Examiners be awarded the Diploma in Disaster Management.
Eligibility:
Graduate in any discipline
Course structure
SEMESTER 1
DMF 511: Terminologies in Disaster Risk reduction, Management and Identification of Risk factors
DMD 512: Hazard Mapping, Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
DMP 513: Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Preparedness
SEMESTER 2
DMV 521: Disaster Response and Relief
DMA 522: Participatory stakeholder Engagement
DMMP 523: Disaster Communications and Crisis Counselling
SEMESTER 3
Choose any two electives plus the module DMS 600 which is mandatory:
Electives 1
DMC 531: Displaced persons in civil conflict
DMD 532: Drought and famine
DMR 533: Rehabilitation and reconstruction
Electives 2
DME 541: Disasters and the environment
DMO 542: Disaster economics
DML 543: Disaster Logistics
Electives 3
DMI 551: International law of disasters and armed conflict
DMT 551: Emergency information management and telecommunications
DMS 600: Disaster management ethics (Mandatory) this module to run in parallel is mandatory.
DMD 552: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)/Critical Incident Stress (CIS)
The different options can be tailor-made for persons working in the field of disaster, risk and emergency management in either the public or the private sector such as: Disaster managers, Risk managers, Development officers, Fire Department Personnel Police officers, Health officers, Traffic and municipal security personnel, Town planners, NGO staff, Private security and rescue companies
Important information Please note that option 1 is compulsory for all first time students, and no certificate will be awarded until the successful completion of this option.
