Area of Themes

Theme: I Introduction to Mountain Hazard and Risk Reduction in Asia

The Hindu Kush Mountain range is extremely vulnerable to earthquakes and natural disasters caused by water. Climate change and land-use degradation are putting tremendous strain on this fragile mountain region. This module’s main goal and purpose is to connect and synthesize existing data, research, conceptual work, and practical cases regarding risk, resilience, and risk reduction.

Module 1: Overview of Mountain Hazards Issues:

Objective: To provide an overview of mountain hazard issues, including types of hazards, risk factors, and strategies for mitigating and responding to these hazards. The researchers will learn about the specific hazards that are commonly found in mountain environments and learn how these hazards can impact people and communities.

Module 2: Floods in the Hindu Kush Region: Causes and Socio-Economic Aspects

Objective: To understand the causes of floods in the Hindu Kush region, including meteorological and geological factors such as monsoons, snowmelt, and landslides.

Module 3: Seismic Hazard in the Himalayan Intermontane Basins:

Objective: To understand the geological and tectonic setting of the Himalayan Intermontane Basins, and how they contribute to the high seismic hazard in the region.

Module 4: Demographic Changes, Economic Changes and Livelihood Changes in the HKH Region

Objective: To explore the impact of demographic and economic changes on the livelihoods of people in the HKH region, including changes in employment opportunities, access to resources, and social and economic status.

Module 5: Mitigating Global Sustainability and Climate change through Ecosystem Resilience: Harmonizing Built and Natural Environments in the HKH Region

Objective: To provide an overview of the climatic disasters that commonly occur in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region.

Module 6: Indigenous Resilience and Adaptation in High Altitude Arid Zone Communities

Objective: To provide an overview of the strategies employed by indigenous peoples in high altitude arid zone communities to adopt and respond to disasters.

Module 7: Gender and Disaster Resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region

Objective: To increase understanding of the specific gender-based vulnerabilities and needs in disaster-affected communities in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region.

Theme: II Disaster Emergency Planning Preparedness and Risk Reduction in Asia

This training module aims to enhance knowledge on the efforts for disaster preparedness and risk reduction in Asia.

Module 1: Enhanced risk identification and analysis:

Objective: To provide an understanding of the process of risk identification and analysis in relation to disasters. This module also works to help researchers understand the importance identification and analysis processes play in reducing a country and/or region’s vulnerability to disasters.

Module 2: Increased investment in disaster risk reduction

Objective: To raise awareness of the economic and social benefits of investing in disaster risk reduction and the consequences of not investing.

Module 3:Improved access to disaster risk finance

Objective: To explore mechanisms to improve access to disaster risk finance and the challenges associated with such mechanisms.

Module 4: Scaling up of community-based and gender-focused approaches

Objectives: To learn from best practices and provide an understanding of ways to scale up community-based and gender-focused approaches to disaster preparedness and risk reduction.

Module 5: Increased regional cooperation on IDRM

Objective: To explore the current factors leading to increased IDRM cooperation and identify ways to expand cooperation. This module will also focus on strategies to overcome barriers to IDRM cooperation.

Theme: III Disaster Mapping

This training module aims to enhance knowledge on the essentials of risk assessment, including key concepts, assessment processes, frameworks, and common challenges. Additionally, this module will increase understanding of the use of risk information in public decision making.

Module 1: Introduction to the role of disaster risk assessment: Issues and challenges in reducing risks and disasters

Objective: To provide an overview of disaster risk assessment and explore critical issues and challenges associated with reducing disaster risk.

Module 2: Essentials of risk assessment and decision making

Objective: To provide an understanding of the critical components of disaster risk assessment and disaster risk decision making.

Module 3: Undertaking disaster risk assessment:  The roles and duties of stakeholders

Objective: To identify and examine the roles and responsibilities diverse stakeholders have in undertaking disaster risk assessments.

Module 4: How to facilitate the country-specific disaster risk assessment process?

Objective: To support researchers in their ability to identify strategies that can be applied in their country to enhance risk assessment processes.

Module 5: Basics of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing

Objective: To provide researchers with an overview of GIS and remote sensing and enable them to perform basic GIS procedures.

Theme: IV TOT module on Mountain hazards and disaster risk reduction

This training module is developed as a tool to train policy makers and senior programme managers in disaster risk reduction (DRR) mainstreaming and climate change adaptation (CCA). This module will explore the perspectives and elements that contribute to the DRR and CAA policy making, planning and programming processes.

Module 3: Mainstreaming DRR and CCA in Planning and Policy Making 

Objective: To provide an overview of how to effectively integrate DRR and CCA into planning and policy making activities at the national and sub-national level.

Module 4: Skill and capacity development of the students

Objectives: To provide workshops and trainings that support the student’s ability to successfully apply DRR and CCA to policy making, planning, and programming.

Theme: V Psycho-Social Resiliency

Module 1: Understanding Crisis and Its Impact on Mental health

Objectives: To understand the impact of crisis on mental health and well-being and to assess the typical reactions of individuals in a crisis situation.

Module 2: Disaster Stress reaction and Support Mechanism

Objectives: To understand the stress reactions that occur during a disaster and the role of positive psychology in coping with them, and also to assess the support system available to individuals during a disaster and evaluate its effectiveness.

Module 3: Disaster Anthropology loss and impact

Objectives: To understand the concept of anthropological loss and its significance in the context of disasters.

Module 4: Multicultural aspect and Indigenous coping

Objectives: To understand the multicultural aspect of disaster response and the need to take into account cultural diversity when planning and implementing disaster management strategies.

Theme: VI Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) law

Module 1: Land-use Planning and Zoning:

Objectives: To familiarize the systematic and scientific land
use planning by which can be  protect the Fertile cultivation lands declination, climate change, forest area declination and its affects on. Environment.

Module 2: Building Codes and Standards:

Objectives: To acquaint with the building code (also building control or building regulations) that has been formulated
by local council (Authority).

Module 3: Early Warning Systems and Emergency Management:

Objectives: To acquaint with the Early Warning Systems (EWS) and emergency management and its implication and impact (structural and nonstructural measures).

Module 4: Climate Change and DRR Law:

Objectives: To acquaint the climate change phenomenon, its impacts on various dimension (Human, environment
and ecological) and   climate change law, policies and regulations.

Module 5: DRR – Federal, Provincial, local (Community Resilience)

Objectives: To introduce the law, act, policies, rules and regulations formulated by various tiers National government.