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Preparedness Plan
Preparedness Plan
A preparedness plan is preparatory in nature and is acted in a state of uncertainty until an actual emergency or disaster occurs. During an actual contingency, effective and quick action is required. However, this action very often depends on having plans already in place before a disaster strikes. It is thus pivotal that appropriate preparedness actions are taken in time to avoid needless loss. Also, it is equally important to prioritize preparedness actions to better meet the humanitarian needs when a disaster evolves.
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In our contingency plan, Svartlamon will have adequate preparedness to better achieve response strategies in conjunction with implementation and operational support plans. While the Svartlamon Disaster Committee to be formed at the initiation of the contingency plan is anticipated to lead community-level preparedness actions, all stakeholders should play a role in supporting the preparedness plan in form of a partnership or program.
Response strategies
Develop disaster management partnership and committee
Table 8: PREPAREDNESS PLAN
Preparedness actions GOVERNANCE STRATEGIES
• Identify potential stakeholders • Organize community meetings to discuss • Apply for funding for operation
Provide training about disaster management and sea level rise
• Invite existing experts or hire people to provide training • Advertise and inform residents about the training program • Purchase necessary teaching material • Prepare teaching space
PHYSICAL STRATEGIES
Improve road infrastructure • Carry out road mapping • Select construction company • Apply for funding • Purchase materials • Organize community meetings to discuss • Select a committee member to follow up the process
Build shoreline protection, e.g. tide gate/sea walls • Carry out mapping activities • Start the project application and approval procedure • Select construction company • Apply for funding • Select a committee member to follow up the process
Improve building materials • Organize community meetings • Discuss with the funding actors and the cooperative banks about loan/subsidy provision procedure • Carry out community mapping to identify vulnerable buildings • Apply for funding from the municipality/NGOs to support the project • Purchase materials • Hire architects and engineers
Improve sewage and stormwater pipe capacity • Carry out mapping and investigations • Start the project application and approval procedure • Apply for funding • Call for bills on the construction and select construction company • Select a committee member to follow up
Ensure power supply • Select the generator suppliers and start negotiation • Identify potential site for emergency power plant • Contact instalment companies • Select a committee member to follow up
Response strategies
ensure drinking water and food supply
Emergency medical and social service
Continued: PREPAREDNESS PLAN
Preparedness actions OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES
• Prepare a warehouse for food and water storage • Purchase enough food stock • Prepare vehicles for transport • Hire people/ select committee members to maintain the stock and to monitor operation • Carry out community level demographics to identify people with special needs • Purchase or arrange all necessary equipment in advance • Organize regular meetings to update service providers with information and knowledge • Organize exercises and simulations • Hire/assign a specialist to follow up
provide emergency shelter • Carry out community mapping to identify potential places that could be used as emergency shelters • Negotiate with owners about the plans to prepare the place as an emergency shelter • Arrange and purchase necessary furniture, equipment and supplies • Hire a staff/ assign a committee member for follow-up and maintenance • Identify potential site that could be used to construct a specific shelter in the future
Plan a route for evacuation • Collect data including demographics and geographical data, etc. • Select partners of expertise, e.g. programming and Algorithm • identify suitable evacuation vehicles, helicopters, lifeboats/fleet • Contact fire and police department to discuss • Select a committee member to follow up
Assisted evacuation of the disabled, sick people • Carry out community level demographics to identify people with special needs • select a doctor, a nurse and a social worker to follow up their situations • Purchase and arrange necessary medical equipment and supplies • Select a committee member to follow up the preparation
Improve pre-warning system • Collect and update meteorological data • Identify new knowledge and technologies that could be applied to improve the system • Examine the existing pre-warning system and identify the drawbacks to be improved • Establish connection between the Svartlamon Disaster Committee and the municipal pre-warning actors Post-disaster recovery support • Apply for funding for the insurance purchase • Purchase insurance • Identify social service organizations and sign agreements • Establish a foundation for post-disaster recovery • Select a committee member to follow up
Conduct studies for sea level rise and disaster reduction • Identify potential research partners and sign agreements • Identify urgent research topics • Apply for research funding
