Community-based DRR

This approach engages the local community, including the most vulnerable, in managing local disaster risk with community specific risk reduction measures while recognizing existing capacities and coping mechanisms. This includes community assessments of hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities, and their involvement in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of local action for disaster risk reduction. Community-based DRR is a key disaster risk management approach.

Latest Community-based DRR additions in the Knowledge Base

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Cover and source: GOAL International
Documents and publications

This toolkit is intended to measure community health resilience, raise community awareness of the potential impact of shocks and stresses on individual and family health, and enhance community motivation to develop and implement health resilience actions.

GOAL International
Update

A new initiative targeting service investment to build resilience in low-capacity communities in the United States would help build capacity at the local level, train individuals in grant writing and resilience work, and ensure critical federal funding.

Federation of American Scientists
Update

Severe floods in Nepal caused damage, displacement, and health risks, highlighting the need for better early warnings, impact-based forecasts, and community-based flood management.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Students are shown planting trees in a school in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Update

Bangladesh has limited coping capacity or budget to adapt and respond to a series of hazards at the community level. However, coastal communities are demonstrating the power and effectiveness of locally-led adaptation efforts to build resilience.

Climate and Development Knowledge Network
Research briefs

Tufts research finds many local governments lack resources to prepare for rising climate risks. Solutions include proactive planning, heat policies, stronger social services, and inclusive early warnings.

Tufts University
Cover and source: Climate Risk & Resilience Lab
Documents and publications

This study underscores the need for a comprehensive GLOF risk assessment supported by infrastructures for ground-based monitoring to advance early warning systems, and climate adaptation strategies tailored to high-mountain communities.

Climate, Risk & Resilience Lab (CRR)
Digo Bikas Institute
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Documents and publications

This year’s Stories of Resilience lays out the need for urgent and rapid reform in how global and national climate finance is delivered, in the power dynamics between providers and recipients, and in how success is measured.

Global Center on Adaptation
Cover and source: Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
Documents and publications

This research aims to investigate the impacts of external interventions on the responsive adaptation process by studying a riverside flood-prone urban slum in Bangladesh.

Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
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