Developing a curriculum for a ladderized master in disaster risk management program: case of the Camarines Sur States agricultural college, Bicol, Philipppines

This document presents a case study in institusionalizing disaster risk management in higher education and training institutions.

In developing the curriculum, the process used was the DACUM (an acronym for developing a curriculum). The output of the DACUM process serves as guide in developing a curriculum which first objective is to work theoretically and practically in all the stages of disaster risk management - disaster risk reduction, response and recovery, and understand how these are interconnected. That will appropriately and precisely meet the requirements of the industry which is the target market of the graduates.