GIS For Disaster Risk Management

Date

Venue

Registrations

8th to 12th Jan 2024

Nairobi

5th to 9th Feb 2024

Mombasa

4th to 8th March 2024

Nairobi

1st to 5th April 2024

Istanbul

6th to 10th May 2024

Nairobi

3rd to 7th June 2024

Dubai

1st to 5th July 2024

Nairobi

5th to 9th Aug 2024

Nairobi

2nd to 6th Sept 2024

Nairobi

7th to 11th Oct' 2024

Mombasa

4th-8th Nov' 2024

Nairobi

2nd to 6th Dec 2024

Nairobi

A fast increase in vulnerability of communities exposed to dangerous events is being caused by urbanization and rapid population growth coupled with extreme climatic events. As an outcome, disasters are frequently taking a massive toll on property and life. Development both in non-urban and urban locations calls for the integration of satisfactory steps to lower the effect of disasters. There's increased demand for risk-informed decision making in planning for good coping systems for catastrophe risk reduction. This course on GIS for disaster risk management is going to create considerable awareness of all the disaster management Professionals about the benefits of GIS usage.

Program Objectives:

• Utilize GIS & remote sensing in catastrophe danger assessment and management;

• Utilize  historical disaster info and components at risk data;

• Apply GIS in hazard, risk and vulnerability assessment;

• Employ risk info in emergency preparedness planning;

• Visualize hazard &chance info; and also

• Apply GIS to post-disaster assessment of damage

Duration

5 Days

Who Can Attend?

The program is open to everyone that is working or maybe will be operating in the groups where spatial info is used and where it is deemed to be utilized for the goal of catastrophe chance managing, disaster management, and reduction of disaster risk. There's no requirement GIS knowhow for a participant who's enthusiastic about this particular program.

Training Outline

Module one: Terminologies of catastrophe management

• Terminologies of catastrophe management

• GIS as well as remote sensing

• Handling spatial info

Module two: Post Disaster Impact and Damage Analysis

• utilization of satellite imagery for recovery and disaster relief

• Impact analysis and also preliminary damage assessment

• Building damage assessment

Module three: Pre Disaster Risk Assessment

• Hazard Assessment

• Elements vulnerable and also vulnerability assessment

• Types as well as approaches of risk evaluation, risk evaluation, cost-benefit

analysis

Module four: Risk Information for Risk Reduction Planning

• Risk evaluation

• Visualization of risk info

• Risk spatial planning and information

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