Community-based disaster risk management training course

This course has been designed to improve the effectiveness of specialists and non-specialists in disaster response, helping them to link disasters with development in a sustainable manner.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

-  Understand the linkages between disasters & development and concepts of hazard, risk, and vulnerability assessment.
-  Describe the basic concepts of underlying CBDP and its relation and distinction between hazard, disaster and emergency.
-  Understand the key policies for sustainable development, with a special emphasis on disaster management (including preparedness, mitigation & risk reduction)
-  Understand Vulnerabilities, Capacities and their interplay in determining the risk.
-  Identify potential emergency needs and begin identifying the various players (local population, NGOs, GO etc.) which have potential roles to play in emergency response.
-  Understand the participatory facilitation of hazard, vulnerability, capacity and risk assessment of individuals, families and communities.
-  Understand basics of emergency need assessment and standards in emergency response and use of Sphere standards for the same.
-  Apply sphere standards to the context of CBDRM.

The principal aim of RedR training is to improve effectiveness in disaster response. In addition, RedR training is intended to enhance professional development, many of the skills developed will not only be of benefit to the trainee but also to his or her employer. They are particularly valuable for those likely to be involved in a professional capacity in humanitarian assistance and disaster risk reduction.