Turning the tide: good practices in community based disaster risk reduction

This publication contains 33 good practices presented as innovative and sustainable models of risk reduction such as: rainfall insurance, water harvesting and soil conservation adopting traditional techniques, promotion of disaster resistant housing techniques, capacity and skill building of vulnerable communities and children, task forces formation. It also covers the following thematic areas: flood, drought, cyclone, earthquake, and integrated hazard management.

This compendium of good practices was collected from 11 states of India (Assam, Tripura, West Bengal, Orissa, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttrakhand). It is intended to be an important resource for the disaster risk reduction practitioners and the policy makers to adopt and replicate some of the practices in their working areas, considering the suitability of the local conditions.