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Rebecca Carr
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- What I do for DRR education and how I can contribute to this site
- My work in Disaster preparedness began with my enrollment onto the MSc in Disaster Management & Sustainable Development at Northumbria University.
My career in this field began in UK emergency planning with my work at Brent Council. Brent is one of the most ethnically diverse borough in the UK and therefore has some of the most interesting work regarding emergency planning.
I led the development of the emergency planning guidance for schools and created a working group for this plan. This included individuals from within Brent Councils Education department and from schools in Brent. This guidance included integrating disaster education into classrooms, emergency grab bags for both children and staff, exercising multiple evacuation routes and business continuity for schools.
The development of this guidance also led me to the idea for an emergency planning workshop for schools, which was accepted by the London Local Authorities Emergency Planning Group. I contacted a number of leading advocates for school emergency planning and disaster education, including Justin Sharpe, who all agreed to present their work and I along with colleagues organised the first successful London Local Authorities schools emergency planning workshop.
Through the development of communication links and fostering good working relationships with Brent's multi faith group, I was able to obtain the Unit a seat at the multi faith quarterly meeting, chaired by the Chief Executive of the Council. This enabled me to introduce people to the emergency planning unit and importantly show how the various faith and community groups could work with us in the event and aftermath of an emergency in the borough, for example some of their buildings may be suitable to use as rest centres. Residents in ethnically diverse parts of major cities may rely on their faith leaders rather than the council and successful ties with these groups enables us to engage with individuals that are normally inaccessible.
I also represented all London Local Authorities on the Faith Sector Panel. This quarterly meeting was made up of all major faith representatives from throughout London and focused on discussing strategic issues.
I am currently back with Brent Council Emergency Planning & Business Continuity Unit, supporting a number of work streams currently in process.
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International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage
Posted by Rohit Jigyasu on May 15, 2012 at 5:34am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Please note that application for the course has been extended to 31 May 2012. Details are available at http://www.ritsumei-gcoe.jp/heritagerisknet.dmuch/itc/index.html
Which countries visit Edu4DRR most?
Posted by Justin Sharpe on March 26, 2012 at 5:57pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
As a geographer I was intrigued as to where our visitors and users of Edu4DRR come from, so I made this list! With flags too! Do we need groups for the more popular countries? What do you think?
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Children of the Tsunami
Posted by Briony Towers on March 13, 2012 at 3:42am 0 Comments 0 Likes
This beautifully made documentary investigates children's experiences of the Japanese tsunami and nuclear disaster. It will be of real interest to anyone who works in the field of child-centred disaster risk reduction. The children articulate their experiences with great insight and in doing so, they further challenge the notion that children are passive victims of disaster who must rely on adults to speak for them. Of particular interest, is the children's desire to take what they have…
Continue School board apologizes for tsunami death
Posted by Justin Sharpe on January 24, 2012 at 9:42am 0 Comments 3 Likes
The following news story has come from NHK, the Japanese TV station which broadcasts via satellite in English, but is an important step and a warning about the dangers of ignoring safety messages!
The education board in Ishinomaki City, northeastern Japan has admitted responsibility and apologized for the large number of deaths among students at the Okawa Elementary School in last year's tsunami.Continue
70 of the school's 108 students were killed in the March 11th…
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Climate Change and Disaster Risk Online Course
May 21, 2012 to June 20, 2012 – Online
Climate Change and Disaster Risk (CCDR) is a four-week specialization course within the Natural Disaster Risk Management Program that aims at supporting the global agenda of Managing the risks associ…
Organized by Jesus Dominic Dizon | Type: drr/cca, online, course
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Cheers for this! It's great to have you involved with edu4drr. I've just beeing going over the shakeout report today and will be writing a shortened educators guide, so that we can build on our experience and suggest useful tools for lessons before during and after the next. If you find any good videos on youtube etc you can upload them by clicking on the video's link here! Also when you get the chance have a look at the 'Resources' tab and look at the drills/plans section and comment on the lockdown stuff I wrote...Any good for your Borough by the way? Anyway keep in touch, I'll request you as a friend!
Justin
Glad to see you have joined! Great photo by the way, but you are a little modest on your profile! It would be good if you could add some detail about what you want to do in the future or to bring to the network it would be good! Look out for the newsletter soon!
Justin