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HazAware is a not-for-profit organisation which aims to provide community-based training focusing on assisting those in vulnerable communities, who are threatened by local hazards.
1. Improve community knowledge regarding the local environment and hazards
2. Increase community resilience to mitigate disaster impacts
3. Enable communities to engage in sustainable hazard management
Preparedness, prevention and planning
Association of Geographic Information and Institute of Environmental Sciences
By using education and knowledge-shares, HazAware strives to build resilient communities.
- Work with local governments to embed humanitarian and natural hazard information and emergency plans
- desktop risk assessments
- provide bespoke lectures and tabletop exercises
- design school curriculums
- build and review contigency plans to reduce risk
-build local resilience through educations
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.