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.

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This Media Kit has been developed as a guide for media professionals in five Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Timor Léste and Vietnam) to raise the awareness of media professionals about their role in disaster risk reduction.

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
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Community participation has been recognized as the additional element in disaster management necessary to reverse the worldwide trend of exponential increase in disaster occurrence of and loss from small- and medium-scale disasters, build a culture of

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
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This is an abridged version of the publication UNCDR Tapestry: community based disaster management activities.

United Nations Centre for Regional Development
United Nations Centre for Regional Development
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This publication is a compendium of efforts on Community Based Disaster Management (CBDM) made by UNCRD during the years leading up to the UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction in 2005. Using the VCA Tool (Vulnerability and Capability Assessment) NGOs

United Nations Centre for Regional Development
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UNDP has been supporting various initiatives of the central and state Governments to strengthen the disaster management capacities for nearly a decade. UNDP proposes to accelerate capacity building in disaster reduction and recovery activities at the

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
India - government
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This report draws on the experiences of many organisations and individuals during and following the tsunami.

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, President William J. Clinton, has identified many lessons concerning

Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning
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Good practices and lessons learned, a publication of the “Global network of NGOs” for disaster risk reduction.

This publication is a joint effort of the Global Network of NGOs for Disaster Risk Reduction, an emerging network of national and international

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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For as long as they have existed, cities have been destroyed--sacked, shaken, burnt, bombed, flooded, starved, irradiated, and pillaged--in almost every case they have risen again. Rarely in modern times has a city not been rebuilt following destruction

Oxford University Press
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