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Community-based DRR
Strengthening and sharing local, community-based knowledge to increase community capacity, preparedness and response to natural hazards and decrease vulnerability to disasters
Hawaii: Disaster preparedness survey for Maui residents
11 Mar 2010, Maui Weekly
The County of Maui Civil Defence Agency is encouraging residents to participate in a public survey to help the County improve the existing planning and preparedness strategy and play a greater role in seeking federal funding for mitigation actions...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 1.3 [PDF, 114Kb]Community Participation and decentralisation is ensured through the delegation of authority and resources to local levels
- Indicator 3.2 [PDF, 116Kb]School curricula , education material and relevant trainings include disaster risk reduction and recovery concepts and practices
- Indicator 3.4 [PDF, 102Kb]Countrywide public awareness strategy exists to stimulate a culture of disaster resilience, with outreach to urban and rural communities
- Facilitating community-managed disaster risk reduction15-26 Mar 2010, Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
- Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference and Exhibition04-06 Apr 2010, United Arab Emirates (Dubai)
- Community-managed disaster risk reduction - two courses12-23 Apr 2010, Indonesia (Medan)
- Diploma in disaster managementKenya (Nairobi)
- Emergency and Disaster Management (Certificate)Swinburne Univ, Victoria, Australia
- Emergency and Disaster Management (Diploma)Swinburne Univ, Victoria, Australia.
From ISDR System and other DRR actors
- FEMA faces challenges integrating community preparedness programs into its strategic approach2010, GAO, United States of America - gov
- Supporting community recovery and risk reduction in Yogyakarta2009, IFRC
- Report on the 2008 great Sichuan earthquake2009, UNCRD
- Chilean girl saves island2010, CNN
- BBC World Debate: ‘Prevent or React’2009, BBC
- The long last mile2007
External Online Resources
- British Red Cross: Better prepared after the tsunami
- Cruz Roja Media Luna Roja reducción del riesgo de desastres / IFRC Latin America disaster risk reduction (in Spanish)
- DesAprender: plataforma de intercambio (in Spanish)
- Eldis: community-based adaptation exchange
- FAO: DRR-TECA (technology for agriculture) practices and technologies
- inTERRAgate
- NZAID: The Pacific strategy 2007-2015: reducing vulnerability
- ProVention Consortium: community risk assessment toolkit
- Selemat Project
- Sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region
- Tearfund international learning zone (TILZ): disaster risk reduction
- UNFCCC: local coping strategies database
- Women preparing for disasters Bangladesh
Find or contribute curricular, extra-curricular and public awareness materials on disaster prevention and school safety for primary, secondary, vocational, community-based education and public awareness.