Strategic Disaster Risk Management and Leadership

Program Overview

As the global community continues to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, fight the spread of SARS-CovV-2 virus as well as recover from the multiple impacts of the pandemic crisis, governments, communities and organizations remain vulnerable to various natural, climate-induced and anthropogenic hazards. They are further challenged to effectively prepare for multiple shocks and stresses, ensure business and service continuity, and mitigate and adapt to potential impacts of disasters and climate change. To succeed in building resilience against disaster and climate change, all stakeholders such as public sector agencies, business entities, civil society organizations, and community organizations, among others, would have to be more agile and adaptive and to work collaboratively in order to thrive in today’s unpredictable world. 

This program will provide the professional training needed to improve emergency preparedness and strengthen disaster resilience of the organizations and communities where participants work and operate. By joining the program, participants will further hone their critical thinking skills to identify and evaluate risks and threats in advance and develop holistic solutions to reduce vulnerability and exposure of their organizations and communities to hazards, enhance their problem-solving ability to proactively manage risks and maintain organizational functioning during disaster or crisis, and enhance their leadership skills to empower their organizations and communities to take innovative actions towards disaster and climate resilience. 

Details

Program Objectives:

At the end of the program, the students will be able to: 

• Understand the various operational contexts of disaster risk and crisis management along with its frameworks, concepts, and tools and shift from a mindset of reactive response to proactive Risk Management and Resilience Building. 
• Analyze disaster risk and crisis environments and various stakeholders involved including their roles and interests, synthesize implications on organizations, communities and sectors and develop and evaluate disaster risk and crisis management strategies and measures. 
• Apply collaborative Governance approaches and Leadership strategies and skills to initiate concrete actions to enhance the disaster and climate resilience of their organizations and communities. 

What You Will Learn:

1. MODULE 1: Risk and Resilience 
   • Module 1 provides the theoretical and conceptual foundation needed to gain a broad comprehension of risk, disaster risk reduction and management, crisis management, and disaster and climate resilience. Students will learn to understand the disaster risk environment in terms of hazard, vulnerability, exposure, and capacity dimensions of risk and develop analytical and critical thinking necessary to address contemporary concerns and issues in the practice of disaster risk and crisis management. 
2. MODULE 2: Risk Governance and Resilience Leadership 
   • Module 2 spotlights the practice of disaster risk governance and resilience leadership, including approaches, strategies and tools to build disaster resilient communities and organizations. Students will explore effective approaches in collaboration and partnerships in various aspects of disaster risk reduction and management, crisis management, and resilience building. Specific cases like the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic crisis disasters will surface key players and their roles in disaster risk management from response and mitigation to recovery as well as the challenges encountered in collaborating and managing complex emergencies and disasters brought about by natural, climate-induced and human-made hazards. 

Key Benefits:

1. Well-Structured Program and World-Class Faculty 
   • The online program offers a venue for high-impact learning with real-time, experiential, and interactive online sessions. Participants will learn from AIM’s world-class faculty and its network of disaster risk and crisis management practitioners, humanitarian workers, and resilience leaders. 
2. Gain a Leadership Perspective and Deeper Understanding of Disaster Risk and Crisis Management 
   • The program helps leaders, managers, supervisors, and entrepreneurs develop a broader and deeper understanding of disaster risk and crisis management – both in the public and private sectors – through in-depth discussions of topics such as operations management, risk management, disaster preparedness, and humanitarianism and emergency management. 
3. Enhanced Leadership and Management Skills 
   • The program enhances the participants’ capability to lead and manage in a cross-functional setting, improving performance, planning, collaboration, and execution of cross-functional efforts leading to disaster preparedness and resilience strategies. 

Who Should Attend:

The program is recommended for professionals in the Government, Humanitarian, and Development Sectors, as well as Business executives, Managers, and Entrepreneurs who want to gain a deeper understanding of disaster risk and crisis management in this volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Moreover, this program is open to individual contributors who wish to make a difference in the disaster risk reduction space and be able to contribute to the building of resilience in their community.