Please note that Assessment Tasks One, Two, and Three are linked.

Assessment Task One asks you to apply the Sendai Framework principles to identify and address disaster risk at a community level.

You have been tasked with presenting an initial report to your local disaster management committee in relation to their local community implementation and engagement plan. To do this, you will apply the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction to your chosen geographical community (select a physical town or city - this will be used for all three assessment tasks). The report will be 2000 words (±10% deviation accepted) and must address, all of the following key components:

1.         Provide an overarching explanation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and briefly describe the targets and priorities for action.
2.         Describe a specific geographical community (town or city) that will be the focus of your report.
3.         Describe the geography of your community and include a suitable map showing the location of your chosen town/ city, in relation to its surrounds.
4.         Describe the socio-economic and cultural characteristics of your chosen community.
5.         Identify and evaluate the hazards that pose a risk to your chosen community and include multiple natural hazards and a least one human-induced hazard.
6.         List, describe, and analyse three existing vulnerabilities of the community in relation to your identified hazard/s. 
7.         List, describe, and evaluate existing human and physical resources that are available within your chosen community that may be used for disaster risk reduction.

Please see the Assessment One Criteria, marking rubric and template on your Moodle page for further information.

This is an individual assessment, and teamwork is not permitted for this assessment.

Level of GenAI use allowed:

Level 2: You may use Al for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas.

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a rubric, which is available from the Moodle unit site. Broadly, you will be assessed on:

• Use of the literature
• Knowledge of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
• Application of knowledge and skills related to emergency and disaster management
• Communication and presentation.

Please note that Assessment Tasks One, Two, and Three are linked.

You have been tasked with preparing a second report for your local government on a community implementation and engagement plan. 

This report is based on Assessment Task One. You must identify and develop three appropriate disaster risk reduction strategies and propose measures to mitigate or reduce the risk, with respect to your chosen community (from Assessment Task One). 

Your report should be 2,500 words (±10% deviation accepted) and address all of the following key areas:

1. Identify and describe existing disaster risk strategies in your chosen geographical community.
2. Propose at three specific disaster risk reduction strategies for your chosen community and align these with the Sendai Framework principles.
3. Discuss how these strategies may be implemented at the community level.
4. Identify and describe three key stakeholders, (e.g. government, emergency services agencies, community organisations) that could contribute to your disaster risk reduction strategies. 
5. Describe how you would engage and use each of these key stakeholders in your strategies and the risk reduction process.
6. You must include an Executive Summary as part of your report.           

Please see the Assessment Two Criteria, marking rubric and supporting assessment resources on your Moodle page for further information.

This is an individual assessment, and teamwork is not permitted for this assessment.

Level of GenAI use allowed:

Level 2: You may use Al for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas.

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a rubric, which is available from the Moodle unit site. Broadly, you will be assessed on:

• Use of the literature
• Knowledge of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
• Application of knowledge and skills related to emergency and disaster management
• Collaboration between community and emergency and disaster management
• Communication and presentation.

For Assessment Task Three, you will present an Implementation and Monitoring Plan as part of your chosen community’s disaster risk reduction strategies discussed in the first two assessments. You will prepare and present an eight-minute PowerPoint presentation that includes the following key points:

1.    A brief summary of your chosen community, including its identified hazards, risk and vulnerability.
2.    A description and analysis of three strategies, in line with the Sendai Framework, that would reduce the community’s vulnerability and enhance its resilience.
3.    A comprehensive Implementation Plan for your proposed disaster risk reduction strategies.
4.    A clear outline of the key steps and primary actions that would be undertaken to implement your proposed disaster risk reduction strategies.
5.    A list and description of key stakeholders (you identified these in Assessment Task one) and resources (consider financial, human and physical resources) that may be required to implement these strategies.
6.    A Monitoring Plan that could be used to evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies.

Submission Instructions:

You will upload two documents as part of your submission. A PowerPoint Presentation with embedded audio and a PDF/Word Document with your 'speaker notes'/transcript (this document you put through Turnitin)

• Submit your assessment as a Power Point Presentation with an embedded audio recording via Moodle.
• Include in-text references and a reference list.
• Your presentation must contain no more than 12 slides, with the first slide including the title, your name, and student number, and the last slide being your reference list.
• Upload a PDF or Word document of your ‘speaker notes’ (presentation transcript) to Moodle.
• The audio presentation must not exceed eight minutes in length.

Please see the Assessment Three Criteria, marking rubric and other supporting resources under the Assessment Tile in Moodle for further information.

This is an individual assessment, and teamwork is not permitted for this assessment.

Level of GenAI use allowed:

Level 2: You may use Al for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas.

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a rubric, which is available from the Moodle unit site. Broadly, you will be assessed on:

• Use of the literature
• Knowledge of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
• Application of knowledge and skills related to emergency and disaster management
• Collaboration between community and emergency and disaster management
• Communication and presentation