Penataan Kota Bermuatan Antisipasi Bencana

. Many types of disasters are resulted from natural phenomenon that cannot be avoided. What should we do is reducing the risks of the disasters. Here human safety is placed in the first priority. Each type of natural disaster brings specific hazard. Learning from previous disasters and scientific data of an area (or a city), we can analyze the potential of hazards, vulnerability, and strategy of mitigation for each threat of disaster. In reducing the risks of natural disasters, a city should be equipped with integrated plan for anticipating disasters. Follow are steps that should be needed: (1) Identifying disaster potentials; (2) Setting-up spatial plan that contains disaster-preparedness; and (3) Building institutions and tools of disaster management

Reduction of Natural Disaster Risk Through Contingency Plan in Cilacap District

Cilacap Regency is one of the areas that have the highest level of natural disaster vulnerability in Central Java. Various types of disasters have the opportunity to occur and have an impact on the entire region. To anticipate the impact of these potential natural disasters, the district government has issued a contingency plan to reduce the risk of disasters. This study aims to describe how to reduce the risk of natural disasters through contingency planning. The study uses a qualitative approach with the case study method. Data and information obtained through focus group discussions (FGD), interviews, and documentation studies. The informants were determined purposively, coming from elements of the government, private sector, and a community of 25 people. The results of the study illustrate that the role of contingency planning is very important to reduce disaster risk. The contingency plan document clearly contains various guidelines and technical steps taken by stakeholders in anticipating natural disasters. The guidelines for the action plan are supported by techniques that can be easily learned so that the stages of the process of how to anticipate natural disasters can be carried out by anyone. The implementation of a natural disaster risk reduction contingency plan in the Cilacap Regency received support from the implementer, the environment, resources, and disposition. Key words: Contingency Planning, Mitigation, Polic

Where do women birth during a pandemic? Changing perspectives on Safe Motherhood during the COVID-19 pandemic

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, health systems all over the world are either stressed to their maximum capacity or anticipating becoming overwhelmed. The population is advised not to attend hospital unless strictly necessary, yet this advice seems to apply to all but healthy women during childbirth. Specialized hospital care during childbirth can be lifesaving in case of obstetric complications or for COVID-19 symptomatic women, while strong evidence suggests the appropriateness of midwifery units that are integrated into the healthcare system for eligible women. We must ask ourselves whether obstetric units are the appropriate birthing facilities for healthy women during the pandemic. We have learned from previous crises that the needs of women and children are often badly served during disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns over escalation of mistreatment and abuse media are already reporting on restrictions to the rights of birthing women in Europe and the US. In addition, concerns have emerged over increased risk of infection to COVID-19 among birthing women and familied by concentrating all women in obstetric units and lack of optimal care due to pressure on staff and resources. Women's rights in childbirth are being threatened by lack of care during labor, restrictions on accompaniment, unnecessary interventions including inductions, separation of mother and baby and prohibition on breastfeeding. An effective response to the crisis depends on strong and coordinated health care systems where mothers can birth safely, and the needs of the newborn babies are met. The interpretation of what constitute safe care is a stimulus for a strong debate between those who argue for strengthening community and primary care services and those who recommend for centralization of all births in hospitals. This debate is particularly salient during this pandemic and in preparation of future pandemics. We propose a strategic response in the face of the pandemic by expanding the use of midwifery units both alongside the obstetric unit and freestanding (in the community). Where midwifery units are absent pop-up units can be created quickly following the example of the Netherlands. This strategy in high income countries is evidence-based and also serves as a response to the surge in requests of safe childbirths pathways away from the obstetric unit by concerned women at unprecedented rates. We urge policy makers to consider replicating this model in low- and middle-income countries where hospital conditions are more precarious. A strong collaboration between midwives, nurses, obstetricians and neonatologists and the integration of primary care and acute services could ensure safety while maximizing the rational use of resources. Immediate strategic action would ensure that women are able to access appropriate care at the appropriate time, while hospitals continue to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and obstetric units are kept for women needing specialist care

Flood Risk Mapping Using GIS and Multi-Criteria Analysis at Nanga Pinoh West Kalimantan Area

Flood is one of the disasters that often hit various regions in Indonesia, specifically in West Kalimantan. The floods in Nanga Pinoh District, Melawi Regency, submerged 18 villages and thousands of houses. Therefore, this study aimed to map flood risk areas in Nanga Pinoh and their environmental impact. Secondary data on the slope, total rainfall, flow density, soil type, and land cover analyzed with the multi-criteria GIS analysis were used. The results showed that the location had low, medium, and high risks. It was found that areas with high, prone, medium, and low risk class are 1,515.95 ha, 30,194.92 ha, 21,953.80 ha, and 3.14 ha, respectively. These findings implied that the GIS approach and multi-criteria analysis are effective tools for flood risk maps and helpful in anticipating greater losses and mitigating the disasters

Support for Drought Response and Community Preparedness: Filling the Gaps between Plans and Action

This chapter examines which levels of government handle various aspects of drought, as well as interactions between levels of government, providing examples from states across the western United States. It also takes a look at aspects of drought that fall outside traditional lines of authority and disciplinary boundaries. As part of a discussion on how states support local drought response, the chapter details and contrasts how California and Colorado track public water supply restrictions, and describes Colorado’s process for incorporating input from river basins across the state into its water plan. Case studies focus on drought planning in the Klamath River and Upper Colorado River basins through the lens of collaborative environmental planning. The chapter concludes that drought planning will be more effective as more states coordinate and align goals and policies at multiple levels of government

Charitable Giving Report: How Nonprofit Fundraising Performed in 2013

The Charitable Giving Report, derived from The Blackbaud Index, includes overall giving data from 4,129 nonprofit organizations representing $12.5 billion in total fundraising from 2013. The Report also includes online giving data from 3,359 nonprofits representing$1.7 billion in online fundraising from 2013. This year's report features the addition of overall charitable giving data from 985 organizations and online giving data from 778 organizations

Using Space Syntax For Estimation Of Potential Disaster Indirect Economic Losses

The study of applicable network measures shows that Normalised Angular Choice can be used as criteria for selecting alternatives for minimizing indirect costs caused by road network damages. At the same time, this methodology cannot be used for monetizing indirect costs or identifying losses in different economic sectors. The study approach does not contradict the main theoretical approaches and it gives new opportunities for research on disasters recovery

Sistem Informasi Geografis Pemetaan Daerah Rawan Bencana Alam dengan Metode End User Development

Cilacap is the largest district in Central Java with an area of 225,361 hectares. Topographically, Cilacap Regency is located at an altitude of 1-198 meters above sea level, stretching from west to east. With this condition, Cilacap Regency is an area that is prone to natural disasters such as floods, landslides and earthquakes. The area of Cilacap district along with the many areas prone to natural disasters makes the importance of a geographic information system mapping areas prone to natural disasters. With this system, it is hoped that the community and local governments can take precautionary measures before a natural disaster occurs in their area. The purpose of the research is to design a geographic information system for mapping natural disaster-prone areas for the Cilacap Regency web-based area with End User Development method. This method is used because it is able to produce a system that meets user needs directly. The testing the feasibility study of the system is conducted using the SUS (System Usability Scale) method. The results of this study are a geographic information system for mapping natural disasters and website-based evacuation points with the test results getting an average score of 72. This shows that the system can be implemented properly and is able to show the location of the natural disaster evacuation point areas more quickly as well as it is able to help the community and BPBD Cilacap in anticipating natural disasters

The Role of the Internet of Things in Network Resilience

Disasters lead to devastating structural damage not only to buildings and transport infrastructure, but also to other critical infrastructure, such as the power grid and communication backbones. Following such an event, the availability of minimal communication services is however crucial to allow efficient and coordinated disaster response, to enable timely public information, or to provide individuals in need with a default mechanism to post emergency messages. The Internet of Things consists in the massive deployment of heterogeneous devices, most of which battery-powered, and interconnected via wireless network interfaces. Typical IoT communication architectures enables such IoT devices to not only connect to the communication backbone (i.e. the Internet) using an infrastructure-based wireless network paradigm, but also to communicate with one another autonomously, without the help of any infrastructure, using a spontaneous wireless network paradigm. In this paper, we argue that the vast deployment of IoT-enabled devices could bring benefits in terms of data network resilience in face of disaster. Leveraging their spontaneous wireless networking capabilities, IoT devices could enable minimal communication services (e.g. emergency micro-message delivery) while the conventional communication infrastructure is out of service. We identify the main challenges that must be addressed in order to realize this potential in practice. These challenges concern various technical aspects, including physical connectivity requirements, network protocol stack enhancements, data traffic prioritization schemes, as well as social and political aspects

Pelatihan Kepemimpinan Dalam Mitigasi Bencana Untuk Pemuda Marbot Masjid di Jawa Barat Melalui Kegiatan IDA Camp

Disaster mitigation training for the Indonesian people is a must because Indonesia is in a disaster-prone area. This training is intended to provide community understanding and preparedness in anticipating, dealing with, and resolving the impacts of disasters. In the three stages of disaster-related activities, the role of leadership is important, because in a disaster situation, the community is in a critical situation and tends to panic. Youth, especially marbots, are a community that has the potential to be mobilized to act as leaders in disaster situations