Disaster Recovery Concepts

Key components:

• Defining recovery and understanding the National Principles for Disaster Recovery
• Key recovery policy and legislative elements
• Community-centred approach focusing on local community experience over time
• Working with vulnerability (people, systems, groups) and encouraging diversity
• Recovery domains

Learning outcomes

Module 1: Disaster recovery concepts

• Explain what disaster recovery and disaster relief is
• List and define the National Principles for Disaster Recovery
• Discuss the four recovery domains and how they underpin disaster recovery.

Module 2: Community-centred flood recovery case study

• Give examples of real-world impacts of a disaster across the four recovery domains
• Identify how the four recovery domains are considered in a comprehensive and holistic needs assessment
• Explain how community-centred projects and initiatives benefit disaster recovery.

Target audience

This training is for anyone undertaking recovery work, irrespective of the role performed.

Assessment

There are five – seven quiz questions within each module. The quiz will have open navigation, allowing learners to navigate out of the quiz to look up information. Learners will need to pass the quiz to complete the module. The pass rate is 80%. Learners will have unlimited attempts at the quiz.

Accredited/Non-accredited training

This is a non-accredited course.

Training location information

This course is 100% online.

Personal information disclosure

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Duration

Online, self-paced course consisting of two learning modules.  Each module has an estimated completion time of 15 minutes.  The estimated duration of these modules will vary depending on your experience in emergency management and learning style.