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Community-based DRR
Managing disaster risk by increasing local capacity and resilience and reducing vulnerability to natural hazards. The approach engages the local community in managing local disaster risk often with the collaboration of external actors from civil society, local government and the private sector.
Barbados: Get involved!
1 Feb 2012, Barbados Advocate
'Everyone has a role to play in reducing disaster risk,' says Ian King, Disaster Risk Reduction Programme Manager with UNDP in Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, outlining the commitment, resources and information needed at all levels..
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 1.3 [PDF, 114Kb]Community Participation and decentralisation is ensured through the delegation of authority and resources to local levels
- Indicator 3.2 [PDF, 116Kb]School curricula , education material and relevant trainings include disaster risk reduction and recovery concepts and practices
- Indicator 3.4 [PDF, 102Kb]Countrywide public awareness strategy exists to stimulate a culture of disaster resilience, with outreach to urban and rural communities
- Grassroots participatory disaster management course24 Feb - 30 Mar 2012
- International workshop and exhibition - 2012 'Towards a safer state'04-10 Mar 2012, India (Thiruvananthaouram, Kerala)
- Community action planning in disaster prone communities11-17 Mar 2012, Uganda (Mbarara)
- Postgraduate courses on 'Building resilience to climate change'UN-CECAR, Japan (Tokyo)
- MA Environmental security and peaceUPEACE, Costa Rica (San José)
- Máster universitario en análisis y gestión de emergencia y desastreUniv. de Oviedo, Spain (Oviedo)
Culture and disasters: a beautiful mind of indigenous flood legend from Papua2012, MPBI
Changing climate, changing disasters: pathways to integration2012, Christian Aid; DFID; IDS; Plan Intl
- Director, programme qualityAfghanistan (Kabul / Roving), Afghanaid
- Programme manager, response preparednessChad (N’Djamena), NLRC
- Senior community development delegateHaiti (Carrefour Feuilles, Port au Prince), ARC
External Online Resources
- Best practices in adapting to climate change: Online professional development community
- British Red Cross: Better prepared after the tsunami
- CARE: Community-based adaptation toolkit
- Cruz Roja Media Luna Roja reducción del riesgo de desastres / IFRC Latin America disaster risk reduction (in Spanish)
- CSDi: Compilation of 300 hands-on field activities for community based adaptation
- DesAprender: plataforma de intercambio (in Spanish)
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- Eldis: community-based adaptation exchange
- FAO: DRR-TECA (technology for agriculture) practices and technologies
- inTERRAgate
- NZAID: The Pacific strategy 2007-2015: reducing vulnerability
- ProVention Consortium: community risk assessment toolkit
- Selemat Project
- Sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region
- Tearfund international learning zone (TILZ): disaster risk reduction
- UNDP: Community-based adaptation
- UNFCCC: local coping strategies database
- Women preparing for disasters Bangladesh
Find or contribute curricular, extra-curricular and public awareness materials on disaster prevention and school safety for primary, secondary, vocational, community-based education and public awareness.