Environmental Climate Risk Management (ECRM) Program

DRR –Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

PIPHRO Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is one of the core programs under Environmental Climate Risk Management (ECRM) sectors of the organization, it has been actively and directly involved in a systematic approach to identify, assessing and reducing the risk of disaster and helping those individuals affected as well. DRR aims to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger the situation.

Disaster Risk Reduction conceptually to minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risk throughout a society, to avoid (prevention) or to limit (mitigation & preparedness) the adverse impacts of hazards, within the broad context of sustainable development. Development and humanitarian works are the main responsibilities towards early recovery for those affected individuals.

PIPHRO gives emphasizes to this program considering Pakistan as a whole and Sindh in particular is a disaster risk areas. Most of the targeted areas of PIPHRO are vulnerable to many different hazards, including floods and droughts; tropical storms and hurricanes; Cyclones and tsunamis events. These hazards change the natural environment and result in social and economic disruption, trauma, property damage and loss of life.

Climate change resulting from global warming is ongoing and the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts rising temperatures, accentuated sea level rise, changing precipitation patterns, ocean acidification, and more extreme weather events for the region.

Since its inception PIPHRO has been engaged in responding those hazards. The Establishment of a separate program unit named ECRM laid the PIPHRO for a more comprehensive approach.

The Program is focusing all the four (4) phases of Disaster Cycle:

• Pre-disaster stage

1. Prevention/Mitigation

2. Preparedness

• Post-disaster stage

3. Response

4. Rehabilitation/Reconstruction

The Program also focuses on Advocacy & Lobbying with National Provincial and District governments on:

• To adopt the community based initiatives to better understand the consequences of Disaster Risk Management & climate change

• To make strategies to guard against them, to integrate disaster mitigation into development projects.

• Pre- disaster Stage: Disaster Prevention / Risk Mitigation, Monitoring and Management Plan

The goal of the Disaster Risk Mitigation, Monitoring and Management Plan is to identify as many potential risks as possible to occur. It helps to determine the potential risk and probability of occurrences and plans will then be made to avoid each risk. ECRM conducted an early warning to the disaster risk area in order for the village to be prepared for any possibility of risk occurrences and for them to mitigate the disaster impact.

• Post- disaster stage: Immediate Response and Rescue Operation

ECRM planned an immediate response and rescue operation for the disaster risk occurrences in the vulnerable village’s specially. Rescue Operations conducted or facilitated during the hardest strike of the calamities; then, followed by the immediate response for the immediate needs of the affected population.

• Recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction

During the post-disaster stage PIPHRO with the financial and physical supports of local and international partners are giving aids, supports, and assistance to the affected people of Sindh provinces specifically. The implementing projects will help the severely affected population to reconstruction their living condition through sustainable livelihood programs.

 

For instance, during the worse flood calamities in the history of Pakistan, DRR under ECRM Programs of PIPHRO works with local partners successfully implemented program that response to the immediate needs of the flood affected people of Sindh province.