Training module on comprehensive landslides risk management

This module is a compilation of various training programmes, seminars, workshops and conferences on landslides conducted by the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), and it is a five-day training course focusing on imparting basic and requisite knowledge/skills needed by different stakeholders at various levels in the field of landslide management.

The module has been designed with multi-hazards risk management approach and briefly discusses all types of vulnerabilities for all the stakeholders in an integrated holistic manner. It has been divided into 14 sub-modules, each targeting specific learning units to enable certain learning event, with focus on stakeholders in various sectors at different levels, particularly geologists, engineers, administrators, planners, NGOs, civil defence and environmental agencies. The 14 sub-modules are:

• Sub-Module 1: Landslides – Introduction
• Sub-Module 2: Landslides Inventory and Hazard Zonation
• Sub-Module 3: Landslide Risk Assessment
• Sub-Module 4: Landslide Risk Treatment
• Sub-Module 5: Landslide Investigations
• Sub-Module 6: Instrumentation, Monitoring and Warning for Landslides
• Sub-Module 7: Landslides Remediation
• Sub-Module 8: Response to Landslide Disasters
• Sub-Module 9: Landslide Education, Training and Capacity Development
• Sub-Module 10: Mainstreaming Landslide Risk Reduction in Development
• Sub-Module 11: Standards, Byelaws and Guidelines
• Sub-Module 12: Community Based Action Plan for Multi-Hazard Risk Management
• Sub-Module 13: Emerging Issues
• Sub Module 14: Group Exercises Focusing on Lessons Learnt from Past Disasters and Good/Bad Practices