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Community-based DRR

This approach engages the local community, including the most vulnerable, in managing local disaster risk with community specific risk reduction measures while recognizing existing capacities and coping mechanisms. This includes community assessments of hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities, and their involvement in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of local action for disaster risk reduction. Community-based DRR is a key disaster risk management approach.

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Documents and publications
Pathways to locally led adaptation: Lessons for effective climate resilience finance

The report distils what the Alliance has learned through working directly within planning and budgeting processes in 10 countries: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance
Update
ARA podcast – Making the invisible visible: locally led adaptation as care

Focusing on care within Locally Led Adaptation is not about being “nice”; it is about being effective. It involves addressing the power imbalances that sustain systemic inequities.

weADAPT
Case study
Ethiopia
Enhancing resilience in Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains through community-led ecosystem-based adaptation
This case study explores the RELIVES project, implemented by ORDA Ethiopia and CARE Ethiopia, and how it supported community resilience through locally led adaptation approaches.
  • Climate and Development Knowledge Network
Park in Nairobi
Update
African cities use nature to fight floods and climate change

From Kinshasa to Dire Dawa, cities across Africa are discovering that wetlands, trees and parks could be their strongest defense against climate change.

World Resources Institute
Update
Community risk assessment of flooding and heat hazards available for Baltimore

Chesapeake communities are at a heightened and increasing risk for flooding and coastal hazards.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Amadora city
Blog
Marta Curado Carlos Rocha Luís Carvalho
Disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction in Amadora: building resilience through local action
Building resilience for people with disabilities requires ensuring that their needs are fully recognised and integrated into disaster risk reduction (DRR) planning.
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Educational materials
After disasters: stories from Talisay

Filipinos’ ideas about how to improve disaster response and recovery. Distributed to local communities, local government partners and high schools to support teaching on DRR.

Monash University
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Documents and publications
Engaging communities in climate vulnerability assessment: lessons from Southern Africa

This study shares lessons from implementing community-level participatory climate vulnerability assessments processes in nearly 100 communities in Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe from 2024 to 2025.

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere - International Secretariat
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
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