Summary and Recommendations: Natural Disaster Management
Summary and Recommendations: Natural Disaster Management
From the lesson learnt among the experiences of Natural Disasters and local management for livelihood strategies in Myanmar/Burma, we found some key points which are the causes of natural disasters or causes making people more suffered, and the good experiences which peoples found and practice for emergency response or management for livelihood.
Summary
- Extraction on natural resources without conducting assessment on possible impacts is the main course of future disasters
- Lack of environmental awareness and arrangement make the impacts more severe
- Lack of sharing information, lack of proper and effective management, lack of proper policy focusing on the benefit of grass-root people in case of disaster, lack of effective infrastructure are also the causes behind the unnecessary losses.
- Peoples’ participation and rights to participate in the conservation, emergency response and rehabilitation is the most necessary and important mechanism in natural disaster management
Recommendations
In order to respond the local phenomena of natural disasters and possible impacts from ASEAN, as the peoples of ASEAN, we strongly recommend and propose the following suggestions.
• To prevent the future disasters as the impacts of unbalance extraction on natural resources, economics co-integration should have standards for the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and social impact assessment (SIA).
• To encompass the two phases of disaster management; prevention and emergency response, strengthen the functions of (ASEAN Senior Officials On Environment) ASOEN’s and (ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management) ACDM’s subsidiary bodies focusing not only on ministerial levels but also on the participation of civil societies.
• ASEAN should have the role to address and should have the standard to ensure the transparency and accountability in humanitarian
From the lesson learnt among the experiences of Natural Disasters and local management for livelihood strategies in Myanmar/Burma, we found some key points which are the causes of natural disasters or causes making people more suffered, and the good experiences which peoples found and practice for emergency response or management for livelihood.
Summary
- Extraction on natural resources without conducting assessment on possible impacts is the main course of future disasters
- Lack of environmental awareness and arrangement make the impacts more severe
- Lack of sharing information, lack of proper and effective management, lack of proper policy focusing on the benefit of grass-root people in case of disaster, lack of effective infrastructure are also the causes behind the unnecessary losses.
- Peoples’ participation and rights to participate in the conservation, emergency response and rehabilitation is the most necessary and important mechanism in natural disaster management
Recommendations
In order to respond the local phenomena of natural disasters and possible impacts from ASEAN, as the peoples of ASEAN, we strongly recommend and propose the following suggestions.
• To prevent the future disasters as the impacts of unbalance extraction on natural resources, economics co-integration should have standards for the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and social impact assessment (SIA).
• To encompass the two phases of disaster management; prevention and emergency response, strengthen the functions of (ASEAN Senior Officials On Environment) ASOEN’s and (ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management) ACDM’s subsidiary bodies focusing not only on ministerial levels but also on the participation of civil societies.
• ASEAN should have the role to address and should have the standard to ensure the transparency and accountability in humanitarian