Community risk assessment: focus on informal settlements

In compliance with requirements of the Disaster Management Act and National Disaster Management
Framework, this eight-day course focuses on strengthening community-based risk assessment capabilities in disaster-prone informal settlements. The course gives priority to assessing household and community risks using a range of participatory methods as well as other quantitative and spatial risk-related data.

Also in keeping with the legal requirements of the Act and the framework, the course gives emphasis to incorporating risk assessment findings into the Integrated Development Planning process and their inclusion into the Spatial Development Framework.

Community Risk Assessment (CRA): Focus on Informal Settlements is useful and relevant to disaster management practitioners working in at-risk communities, local councillors / political leaders. However, as the Disaster Management Act requires the involvement of a wide range of private and public sector role-players, the course is equally important for development practitioners, as well as those concerned with capacitybuilding, poverty reduction or sustainable development.