Facilitating community managed disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

The goal of the CMDRR course is to enable communities to increase their capacity to reduce risk and vulnerability and build resilience to withstand and cope with the impact of hazards.

IIRR in collaboration with CORDAID has documented good community practices on how to cope with drought. It has developed several resources including a toolkit which is being used by many organizations working in drought prone areas. In 2008, IIRR and Cordaid developed a trainer's manual on CMDRR which is the guide for the CMDRR course.

IIRR has provided capacity building support in disaster risk reduction to Cordaid partners in addition to CMDRR support to UNOCHA, Oxfam International, Save the Children, World Vision, and FAO among others. From these engagements, we have developed real situational context that our course participants learn from.

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.