Short course: Community risk assessment

The 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. It is useful and relevant to disaster management practitioners working in at-risk communities, local councillors / political leaders. However, the course is equally important for development practitioners, as well as those concerned with capacity-building, poverty reduction or sustainable development.

Key Content Areas:

• Role of CRA in development planning and risk reduction
• Principles, practice and ethics of CRA
• Introduction to critical data sources for assessing risk
• Capturing and mapping spatial data using GPS
• Introduction to participatory CRA methods
• Establishment of enabling institutional arrangements
• Applied CRA: Informal settlements
• Effective analysis/consolidation of CRA findings
• Effective communication of CRA findings - focus on different audiences