Contingency Plan

Our contingency plan is to introduce a DRR plan framework to the community, with considering the DAPP framework as its implementation strategy. Thus, as a DRR plan, our plan considers a collection of actions that span from preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation strategies. This is due to the fact that even though the area has a complete amount of information, and most of the people are aware of the risks and hazards surrounding the area, they do not have proper information and knowledge regarding disaster-related management and planning. Introducing a DRR plan to them will then be beneficial in the long run, especially if this plan is executed and committed by the community themselves.

The preparedness plan is done by identifying actions that can be taken prior to a crisis to improve the response. Emergency management consists of four phases before and after the event happening (see figure 34).

“Preparedness: Actions undertaken when mitigation efforts have not prevented or are unable to prevent a disaster from taking place.” (PennState, n.d.)

In our case many of the interventions mentioned in the implementation plan can be used to improve preparedness, fostering a resilient community development and providing protections against flooding. Especially the short term solutions help to be able to cope better with the impacts of an event. (see implementation plan)

In the preparedness plan, we divide our actions into three different categories; actions that handle Heavy rain and flooding, actions that focus on community capacity building and social capital, and actions that handle quick clay and landslide mitigations. The reason being, as our scenario and site analyses put, a dense city with heavy rainfall would increase the risk of quick clay landslides in the area, accelerating the degradation of quick clay integrity. Thus, it is crucial to address each risk systematically, while also promoting community capacity building due to our localized and frugal approach, relying on the community’s social capital to do actions and gain resources rather than readily available authorities or financial capital.

The response and recovery strategy in this DRR plan mostly comes from the build-up of the preparedness plan as our main focus. Without it, the response and recovery strategy would be worth much less than if it has been prepared beforehand. Furthermore, future mitigation improvements should also be considered after the recovery plan to improve the existing preparedness plan, as will be described in the implementation plan.