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Preparedness

The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to and recover from the impacts of likely, imminent or current disasters.

Preparedness action is carried out within the context of disaster risk management and aims to build the capacities needed to efficiently manage all types of emergencies.

This theme covers aspects related to preparedness, contingency planning, disaster response plans, prevention, anticipatory action.

What’s the difference between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster risk management (DRM)?

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Escuela protegida

Series title: Es mejor prevenir, no. 4

This issue contains a unit which should be integrated into school curricula. It explains the difference between disaster and emergency and reviews mitigation and prevention measures, as well as the various

Centro Regional de Referencia en Educación Comunitaria para la Prevención de Desastres
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Escuela protegida: cuaderno de trabajo

Series title: Es mejor prevenir, no. 4

This activity book addresses secondary school students and invites them to constitute brigades and to take safety measures to protect the educational centre once the risks and the vulnerability have been identified

Centro Regional de Referencia en Educación Comunitaria para la Prevención de Desastres
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Floods

This issue contains a unit which should be integrated into school curricula. It explains floods, their causes, their various categories.

Centro Regional de Referencia en Educación Comunitaria para la Prevención de Desastres
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Educación: organización y preparación comunitaria para la reducción del riesgo - cuaderno de trabajo

Series title: Es mejor prevenir, no. 1

This activity book for students invites them to express their feelings and those of their community in front of emergencies and disasters, to report on the disaster history of their community and to identify

Centro Regional de Referencia en Educación Comunitaria para la Prevención de Desastres
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Community networks for disaster reduction - Book for teachers

This guide addressing teachers aims to build up and strengthen a culture of safety reduction among the children, initially as an out of school activity. Composed of two parts, it first suggests 5 meeting units (review of disasters; risk management

Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias
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Earthquake lesson

Prof. Pop and his two assistants explain children why and how the continental plates move, how the force and severity of an earthquake can be measured, the chain reaction caused by earthquakes, how they form, illustrated by the Italian situation, with a

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
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Workbook - Training of teachers in earthquake affected areas

This training course is designed to enhance knowledge and skills particular to the needs of teachers working in post-earthquake situation.

North West Frontier Province
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Guide du maître: education environnementale au sahel

This Book for teachers aims to spread environmental education as the educational system is a powerful lever able to generate sustainable behavioural changes in relation to the protection and management of the environment, for instance by understanding the

Ministères de l'Education
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