Human Resource Development and training on
DRR in Iran(Challenges and Opportunities)
Ali Bakhtiari
National Disaster Management Organization (NDMO) of Iran
Visiting Researcher at ADRC
Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction(ACDR) 2014

Tokyo, JapanMarch 2014

Islamic Republic of Iran
Administrative System(at a glance)-Located in south-west Asia
Capital (and largest city) : Tehran
Official language(s) Persian (Farsi)
Legislature Islamic Consultative Assembly
Unification
Median Empire
Safavid Empire
Islamic Republic
Current constitution

625 BC
1501
1 April 1979
24 October 1979

 Area : 1,648,195 km2 (18th)
 Population :2013 (estimate ) : 77,163,154 (17th)

Natural hazards in Iran
 Due to its location, Iran is a disaster prone country.
 Situated in one of the most arid regions of the world, it suffers fromfrequentdroughts
floodsforest fires
sand and dust storms

 located in the Alpine-Himalayan mountain system, Iran is highly exposure
to earthquakes.

Background Iran took steps to enhance its national disaster management capacity. This
has resulted in strong disaster preparedness, relief and emergency response
capabilities at national and local levels.
 In terms of disaster preparedness and response, Iran has strong technicalinstitutions and institutional arrangements for disaster management at thenational level.

Background (continue..) Iran has significant experience and capacity in some technical areas ofdisaster risk management, such as:Hazard mapping

Hazards engineering

Reconstruction planning

Health ScienceSpecialized Working groups
Based on NDMO Act: Department for training at NDMO National Media ,public Awareness Rescue and Relief Organization, public Trainingopportunities National Day for DRR (18 Oct) National Earthquake Drill inSchools (7 December) Bam Earthquake Anniversary (26December) Conferences, workshops ,coursesand drills
 The development of DRR activities
is the concern of the entire Societygood practices
some examples such as:
 To establish institutional bases for administration of DRR education andTraining
 To include DRR in the educational Curriculums at elementary, secondary
and university level.
 To establish DRR - related Majors at Universities .
 To dispatch staffs involved in disaster management to international training
courses and visits.

Academic programmes

The majority of universities in Iranoffer courses related to Disasters
including: Earthquake Civil Water Science Agriculture Science geology
 Environment Science and etc.
The following universities andinstitutes offers Course directly
related to DRM/DRR

1) University of Tehran, Institute ofgeophysics
Level: Doctorate &Masters ingeophysics
Web: http://geophysics.ut.ac.ir
2) University of Tehran, Graduate
Faculty Environment
Level: Masters in Disaster management
Web: http://env.ut.ac.ir
3) University of Tehran, MedicalSciences
Level: PHD & Masters in Disaster andEmergency health
Geographical coverage: Global
Web: http://nihr.tums.ac.ir

Academic programmes (continue..)
4) Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS)
Level: PHD in Disaster and Emergency health
Geographical coverage: Global
Web: http://shmis.iums.ac.ir
5) International Institute of Earthquake
Engineering & Seismology (IIEES)
Level: PHD &Masters in geophysics, Masters in
Disaster Risk Reduction
Web: http://www.iiees.ac.ir
6) Shahid Beheshti University (SBU)
Level: Masters in Disaster management andmasters in Reconstruction after Disasters.
Web: http://www.sbu.ac.ir
7) Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
Web: http://www.uk.ac.ir
8) Iranian National Institute for Oceanographyand Atmospheric Science (INIOAS)
Web: http://www.inio.ac.ir

9) Natural disaster InstituteWeb: www.ndri.ir10) Applied and science university, Naturaldisaster Institute branch
Level: Masters in Disaster management,bachelor in Disaster management, bachelor
in relief and rescue.
Web: www.ndri.ir11) Iran Helal Institute of Applied-Science &Technology
Level: Masters in Disaster management,bachelor in Disaster management, bachelor
in relief and rescue.
Web: http://www.helal-uast.ac.ir

challenges
 Parallel activity made by different Organizations
 Weak monitoring and evaluation systematic mechanism for progressachieved.
 Non-continuity of trainings
 Shortage of comprehensive concepts and standards

The Way Forward
strength and improvement Community – based DRR
Urban Relief and rescue
Utilization of GIS, Remote Sensing and IT for DRM/DRR
 Earthquake monitoring, Early warning and dissemination
Urban Planning and DRR
 Risk Assessment
 Mediaありがとう(Thank you)

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