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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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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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Documents and publications
Stories of resilience: lessons from local adaptation practice

This report brings together a set of grounded, practice-based insights on how adaptation can be more effective when it is led from the local level.

Global Center on Adaptation
Update
From forecasts to futures: how Ugandan communities are turning early warnings into everyday action

The Uganda Red Cross Society identified the most vulnerable and underserved communities and layered with catchment management plans from the Ministry of Water and Environment.

Water at the Heart of Climate Action
A group of people walk trought the heat along the Makeni highway in Sierra Leone
Update
Freetown: pioneering nature-based solutions for sustainable urban development and climate adaptation

This case study examines how, through its Transform Freetown agenda, the city is promoting pro-poor and participatory nature-based solutions to address climate risk and ecological degradation, and can offer practical lessons for other cities.

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Worker uses a smartphone to document the condition of the solar panel for a landslide early warning system on a rural hill slope near Magelang, Indonesia.
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Leveraging community-driven development platforms for resilience: lessons from a global knowledge exchange in Jakarta

Nearby in Margagiri, villages have combined micro dams, drainage improvements, and agroforestry into an integrated water and land management system that has reduced damage from heavy rains and improved agricultural production.

World Bank, the
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Documents and publications
Social infrastructure and centralisation in community response and recovery from disasters

Disaster response and recovery are most effective when community-led networks combine central coordination with reciprocal collaboration, highlighting the critical role of local social infrastructure in resilience.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
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