Facilitating community managed disaster risk reduction course

Over 40% of the population in the horn of Africa lives in drought prone arid and semi arid areas. Other widespread challenges in the continent such as; floods, conflict, HIVAIDS, disease epidemics,and environmental degradation continue to impoverish the different communities.

In this course, you will learn:

- To apply the philosophy, concepts and principles of community managed disaster risk reduction;
- To analyze various disaster risk reduction frameworks and models with special focus on common hazards in the horn of Africa;
- To identify and analyze different types of hazards and examine community managed approaches to reduce disaster risks;
- Facilitate the process of participatory risk analysis and assess the impact of major hazards like drought, floods, disease epidemics, conflict, HIV/AIDS and other common hazards;
- Apply the community planning process in the context of disaster risk reduction efforts and adapt participatory tools for doing so;
- Develop an action plan to support community managed disaster risk reduction efforts taking into consideration the major hazards in the region.