The free short course “Emergency Risk Communication in Disaster and Humanitarian Crisis” (29 April – 1 June 2019, classes are on Monday evenings & Saturday mornings) organised by Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care (JCSPHPC), and Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Disaster Preparedness and Response Institute (HKJCDPRI).
This is the 2019 running of the same course held in 2017. Details of the course run in 2017 can be seen here.
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2019
18/01/2019
Download the Hong Kong Jockey Club Disaster Preparedness and Response Institute's (HKJCDPRI) Disaster Preparedness Calendar 2019 for free!
Get ready for 2019 and here comes our Calendar to fill you with the collection of disaster preparedness tips that are commonly faced by general public in Hong Kong as well as when we are travelling overseas.
Come and visit www.choosetosurvive.org.hk for more disasters preparedness tips and make your choices in face of disasters!
14/01/2019
HKSKH Lady MacLehose Centre (Group & Community Work Unit)Community Campaign on Disaster Resilience for Sub-Divided Flat Residences in Kwai Tsing
Sub-divided flats are mostly in inappropriate settings, leading to avoidable risks of fire and diseases outbreak. HKJCDPRI and its collaborating partner, HKSKH Lady MacLehose Centre, understand how crucial it is to mobilize, empower and encourage the residences in Kwai Tsing to fight for themselves a safer living environment. Therefore, various community engagement activities, including home visits and mobile educational booths were organized. A press conference, organized to announce the findings of “Community Survey on Physical and Mental risks resulted from Inappropriate Living Environment”, had called for more awareness and actions on the issue from both the government and general public.
14/01/2019
Carbon Care InnoLab / Tai O Sustainable Development Education WorkshopFlood Preparedness and Climate Change Awareness Enhancement Campaign in Tai O
As a low-lying costal area, Tai O has long been suffering from significantly higher risk of flood compared to other districts. Projected sea-level rise, as well as more frequent / severe typhoon and heavy rain due to climate change pose a even more serious threat. In view of the potential hazard, HKJCDPRI collaborated with 2 grass-root organizations, Carbon Care InnoLab and Tai O Sustainable Development Education Workshop, to conduct educational talks, workshops and exhibitions. Community members and key stakeholders were encouraged to join the move to reduce flood risks in Tai O. A community survey was also conducted, reiterating that the flood management mechanism led by the government is inadequately understood by the residences in Tai O. Recommendation has been made to enhance the flood preparedness and response, especially among the residence in Tai O.
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2019
29/03/2019
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Disaster Preparedness and Response Institute (HKJCDPRI) joined the Hong Kong Observatory’s (HKO) Open Day on 23-24 March 2019, to promote community resilience by encouraging the public to prepare disaster survival kits.
Being prepared means being equipped with the proper supplies needed, in the event of a disaster. Your kit should be assembled well in advance based on your personal and family needs, since you may have to evacuate without any prior notice.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Disaster Preparedness and Response Institute (HKJCDPRI) joined the Hong Kong Observatory’s (HKO) Open Day on 23-24 March 2019, to promote community resilience by encouraging the public to prepare disaster survival kits.
Being prepared means being equipped with the proper supplies needed, in the event of a disaster. Your kit should be assembled well in advance based on your personal and family needs, since you may have to evacuate without any prior notice.
We should always prepare for the best and plan for the worst. Therefore, it is best to assume that after a disaster, basic services such as electricity, gas, water and telephones may be cut off for days. Roads will be inaccessible by vehicles, while public transportation will also be shut down. You may therefore need to survive on your own, while away from home or remain at home.
An easy-to-carry kit will therefore provide you emergency food, water and other supplies in sufficient quantity to last for at least 72 hours. Relief workers and materials will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone immediately. Therefore, a 3-day supply could help you to maintain your safety and health before reaching those.
Bear in mind also the special needs of different vulnerable groups, such as the babies, children, elderly and people suffering from chronic diseases. Regular relief items and basic medications may not suit their needs, so be prepared to put additional items in your survival kits that can help them also to survive.
The Open Day is HKO’s annual signature event, attracting thousands of participants to gather at the HKO Headquarter. This year, the theme is "The Sun, the Earth and the Weather" which echoed the 2019 World Meteorological Day. Exhibitions on-site introduced information about space weather, and showcased how the HKO applies the latest technology to provide various services including weather forecasting, aviation weather, microclimate monitoring and radiation monitoring.
The HKJCDPRI introduced to the participants essential and special items in a disaster survival kit.
Mr Shun Chi Ming, Director of the Hong Kong Observatory, visited the HKJCDPRI’s booth and experienced virtual reality (VR) video on adverse conditions under Typhoon No. 8 through the goggles.
Children were keen to learn the ways, and have the capacity to help protect themselves and their family, at the time of an emergency or a disaster.
29/03/2019
The United Nations system has a special leadership role in global risk and disaster reduction by its universal character, inter-disciplinary and multi-sectoral scope and role as a forum for global dialogue.
This session contains our selected documents and guidelines published by the United Nations system such as the United Nation Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC), The United Nations Human settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and other related agencies.
The United Nations system has a special leadership role in global risk and disaster reduction by its universal character, inter-disciplinary and multi-sectoral scope and role as a forum for global dialogue.
This session contains our selected documents and guidelines published by the United Nations system such as the United Nation Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC), The United Nations Human settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and other related agencies.
*Descriptions of documents are taken from the source documents. The documents are not owned by the HKJCDPRI, and are freely and publicly available, unless specified otherwise. We ask users to use them with respect and credit the authors as appropriate.
Frameworks and Recommendations by UNISDR
Publication | Publication Year | Author | Description |
 | 2018 | UNISDR | This Strategic Approach to Capacity Development for Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction seeks to establish among all stakeholders a common understanding of capacity development within the disaster risk reduction (DRR) context. This Strategic Approach is a resource of empowerment for all relevant capacity development partners and stakeholders, and its goal - A Vision of Risk-Informed Sustainable Development by 2030. |
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
| 2015 | UNISDR | The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai Framework) is the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda, with seven targets and four priorities for action. The Sendai Framework is a 15-year, voluntary, non-binding agreement which recognises that the State has the primary role to reduce disaster risk but that responsibility should be shared with other stakeholders including local government, the private sector and other stakeholders. |
| 2005 | UNISDR | The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA) is the first plan to explain, describe and detail the work that is required from all different sectors and actors to reduce disaster losses. The HFA is a 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards. |
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
| 1999 | United Nations | The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) was launched by the Economic and Social Council and endorsed by the General Assembly as an international framework for responding to the challenge presented to the international community by the increasing incidence and scale of disasters. UNISDR was created as an inter-agency secretariat of ISDR together with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction. |
Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World
| 1994 | United Nations | The Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation and its Plan of Action was adopted at the 1994 First World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, building on the mid-term review of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. |
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
| 1989 | United Nations | Given the increasing concern about the impact of disasters, the UN General Assembly declared 1990-1999 the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). Initially, IDNDR was influenced largely by scientific and technical interest groups. However, the broader global awareness of the social and economic consequences of disasters caused by natural hazards developed as the decade progressed. |
Global Assessment Report (GAR) Disaster Risk Reduction
Publication | Publication Year | Author | Description |
| 2019 | UNISDR | This GAR is about understanding better the systemic nature of risk, how we are able to recognize, measure and model risk, and about strategies to enhance the scientific, social and political cooperation needed to move towards systemic risk governance. It reinforces the message that we need to reduce vulnerability and build resilience if we are to reduce risk. It looks at what countries and regional and international organizations have been doing according to formal reporting under the Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM). It also considers country practices in developing national and local plans to enhance risk reduction capacity, to integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) with development planning and climate change adaptation (CCA), and to pay special attention to risk in rapidly growing cities and fragile/complex contexts. |
| 2017 | UNISDR | The GAR Atlas presents the output of a Global Risk Model (GRM) that can estimate the disaster risk associated with different kinds of hazard faced by national economies throughout the world. The model uses a state-of-the-art probabilistic approach analogous to that applied by the catastrophe modelling and insurance industry over recent decades. This model has been developed by a consortium of leading scientific and technical organisations, under the coordination of UNISDR. |
| 2015 | UNISDR | The fourth edition of the GAR is a resource for understanding and analysing global disaster risk today and in the future. The report explores the large potential losses from disasters currently face by many countries - especially those which can least afford to invest in future resilience and the cost and benefits of disaster risk management (DRM). |
| 2013 | UNISDR | The third edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is a resource for understanding and analysing global disaster risk today and in the future. It explores why increasing disaster risks represent a growing problem for the economic and business community at different scales and examines how paradoxically business investments that aimed to strengthen competitiveness and productivity may have inadvertently contributed to increasing risk. |
| 2011 | UNISDR | The second edition of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is a resource for understanding and analysing global disaster risk today and in the future. Drawing on new and enhanced data, the 2011 report explores trends in disaster risk for each region and for countries with different socioeconomic development. At the same time, over 130 governments are engaged in self-assessments of their progress towards the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), contributing to what is now the most complete global overview of national efforts to reduce disaster risk. |
| 2009 | UNISDR | The 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) was launched in Bahrain on May 17, 2009. The Report provides hard-hitting evidence to demonstrate how, where and why disaster risk is increasing globally and presents key findings from a global analysis of disaster risk patterns and trends, including where high mortality and economic loss is concentrated. |
Framework and Recommendations on Climate Change
Publication | Publication Year | Author | Description |
Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
| 2016 | United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC) | The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance, starting in the year 2020. |
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
| 1997 | United Nations | The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets. Recognising that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities." |
United Nation Develpoment Goals
Publication | Publication Year | Author | Description |
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
| 2015 | United Nations | Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The SDGs are part of Resolution 70/1 of the United Nations General Assembly: "Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development." The goals are broad and interdependent, yet each has a separate list of targets to achieve. |
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
| 2000 | United Nations | The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were the eight international development goals for the year 2015. Each goal had specific targets and dates for achieving those targets. |
Framework and Recommendations from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Habitat)
Publication | Publication Year | Author | Description |
| 2016 | United Nations @Habitat | The New Urban Agenda was adopted at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, on 20 October 2016. The New Urban Agenda represents a shared vision for a better and more sustainable future. If well-planned and well-managed, urbanisation can be a powerful tool for sustainable development for both developing and developed countries. The Habitat agenda is updated every two decades. Past versions can be seen here: Habitat II: The Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements and the Habitat Agenda (published 1996) Habitat I: The Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements (published 1976) |
Reference Materials for Humanitarian Response during Disasters
Publication | Publication Year | Author | Description |
Disaster Response in Asia and the Pacific: A Guide to International Tools and Services
| 2013 | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) | Disaster Response in Asia and the Pacific: A Guide to International Tools and Services is designed to help disaster managers in national Governments gain basic knowledge of how to use international tools and services. It aims to support the growing disaster response and disaster response preparedness capabilities that exist at national level across Asia and the Pacific. |
Other Useful Tools
Publication | Publication Year | Author | Description |
| 2016 | UNISDR | The UNISDR Terminology aims to promote a common understanding and usage of disaster risk reduction concepts and to assist the disaster risk reduction efforts of authorities, practitioners and the public. |
| 2018 | UN OCHA | The 2018 set includes 295 icons covering topics such as humanitarian clusters, disasters, logistics, security incidents and a user experience/user interface design. |
1: Living with risk: a global review of disaster reduction initiatives. (2004). United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
28/03/2019
Occupational health is an important topic for health practice. In order to protect health and well-beings, the need to understand the principles of occupational health and prepare for unforeseeable events is rapidly growing. This course will provide the participants with the overview of occupational hazards and health impacts, fundamental of hazards assessment and control. In addition, it will introduce the workplace emergency planning and responses to industrial disasters, as well as the related challenges to occupational health.
Occupational health is an important topic for health practice. In order to protect health and well-beings, the need to understand the principles of occupational health and prepare for unforeseeable events is rapidly growing. This course will provide the participants with the overview of occupational hazards and health impacts, fundamental of hazards assessment and control. In addition, it will introduce the workplace emergency planning and responses to industrial disasters, as well as the related challenges to occupational health.
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28/03/2019
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(The content of this course is developed by Prof. Shelly Lap-ah Tse, Director of Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Studies, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The author and her team of tutors (Dr. Feng Wang, Dr. Miaomiao Sun, Miss Suyang Wu) are responsible for the scopes and contents of all lectures included into this course, unless specified elsewhere. The guest editor of this online course is Mr Arick Wan-chung Ng. CCOUC owns the copyright of the diagram and pictures in this course.)
Notes:
The 3rd cohort is now open for registration and study on a first-come-first-served basis. Upon registration, students are allowed to study the course until 31 October 2022 at their own pace. A certificate of completion will be issued for participants who have successfully completed the course.
