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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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The book tells the history of fire lighting and explains the basic elements of fire prevention. (UNEsCO)

Ministry of Interior (Hungary)
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The book prepares children to respond to an emergency call. It relates the history of the organized Hungarian fire unit and sport / competitions undertaken for the preparation of fire fighting. (UNEsCO)

Ministry of Interior (Hungary)
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This compendium of guiding sheets, aimed at primary school children, offers them some working material, in a playful manner, to understand some basic concepts of prevention and preparedness measures to emergencies.

Ministerio del Interior
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This booklet tackles the way to handle disaster situations. It indicates the consequences of the different hazards and risks, how to protect ourselves in case of a disaster and how to give assistance to others.

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This booklet provides key information on the goals and functioning of the "Institut Français de Formateurs, risques majeurs et protection de l'environnement", especially in the fields of competence of the national network RMé, to which IFFO-RME belongs

Institut Français des Formateurs Risques Majeurs et protection de l'Environnement
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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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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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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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