Estrategia/Mujeres Unidas para un Pueblo Mejor

The policies and programmes in DRR are taking in account during the implementation of the programmes in the vulnerable communities. The results obtained are disseminated at the local, regional and national level.

Partner of GHI (GeoHazards International) from San Francisco, USA.
Member of the Resilience Campaign of Latin Ameica and Caribbean from Huairou Commission
Member of GEM (Global Earthquake Model) from San Francisco

Soluciones Practicas, Lima-PERU

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Previous coordinations with the community leaders and sensitising process. The grassroots knows about of the importance to prioritise a policy of disaster resduction in the vulnerable communities to reduce the disaster risks to affect the population.

The DRR become an institutional strenghthening that motivate the population to live safe.

Training workshops related to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) with participative and concerted participation of the grassroots. The grassroots learn about how to use the tools and strategies to get resilient communities through a validated methodology.

The training process consists in theory and practice. The grassroots participate in active way, learning about the meaning of the HFA, resilience, vulnerability, hazards, risks etc. The climate change is also pointed out as an important issue to take in account when a disaster is produced.

The grassroots adopt a public awareness after they get trained and started to recognize about what important is to be trained in DRR issues and to be prepared.

The grassroots learn how to reduce underlying risk factors:
1. The Community Risk Mapping to identify the problems of vulnerability in the communities. This is a tool that is presented to the local authorities to advocate for solutions.
2. The organization of public events to invite the state and local authorities to engage and get the supporting with the solution of the problems presented by the community. This is a strategy the grassroots build to get solutions to the community problems.
3. The grassroots is trained in production of construction supplies like the mud brick units to retrofit the affected homes by the earthquakes.
4. The grassroots participate in the retrofit of schools and learn about how to use the seismic and resistant construction materials in a safe construction. This become in a pilot and demonstrative project to disseminate in the community focusing the affected housing.
5.- The grassroots learn about how to use the correct materials for seismic and resistant construction.

The grassroots participate in shames to be prepared. Is important for the population to know about how to evacuate in case of disasters. The training process consists in identify the evacuation areas to have in account in case a disaster occur.

Other activities we make are related to:
The climate change. environment. The grassroots learn about of the importance to build the resistant walls in vulnerable housing areas located up on the hills. The DRR is related to climate change effects. In the case of the untitled housing areas a main requirement is the construction of resistant walls to avoid disasters and to build a safe housing. According to the Peruvian rules the land titling is obtained only if the local government and the state agency of COFOPRI approve the construction of resistant walls to locate the water and sewage.
Our organization is focusing in make rural communities resilient. We already started with the Chocos Community located up on the high Andes of Peru. The Mayor launched his rural community (CHOCOS) as the first rural community resilient in Peru. Our objective if to train and follow up this process in other rural communities of Peru.