Community-based disaster risk management: field practitioners’ handbook
This handbook was produced by ADPC, under the guidance of UNESCAP, for the PDR SEA project. The purpose of the CBDRM Field Practitioners' Handbook is to help equip CBDM or CBDRM practitioners with theories and practical tools that can be applied in community work.
The Handbook is divided into three parts:
- Community-Based Disaster Risk Management: A Framework for Reducing Risk: The purpose of the first part is to clarify the basic concepts of CBDRM.
- Resource Packs: The second part covers essential tools for implementing various stages of the CBDRM process. It provides step by step instructions to facilitate specific activities. It includes narrative instructions, tables and charts. The topics covered are Participatory Project Cycle Management, Participatory Disaster Risk Assessment and Action, Formation and Training of Community Disaster Risk Management Organizations and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation. Introduction CBDRM Field Practitioners’ Handbook 2.
- Major Considerations in undertaking CBDRM: The third part discusses tools on two cross-cutting themes related to CBDRM - Gender Conscious Approach to CBDRM and Disaster Risk Communication (DRC).