Community Based Disaster Preparedness
ARDI mobilizes groups of, ‘at risk’ communities in a systematic way towards achieving safe and resilient groups. The exercise binds the group cohesively in the process of making decisions, dealing with conflicts, resolving issues, and managing individual and collective tasks through addressing and bouncing back from hazard events. The capacity building events provides opportunity for our field practitioners also to learn essential skills and knowledge in community-based disaster preparedness and to address implementation challenges in a systematic manner. The participants acquire tools and obtain knowledge on “how to” design and implement programs for reducing disaster risks and vulnerability and building community capacity. Major outcomes of the training include; its approach that has resulted in communities becoming resilient and self-reliant, so that development initiatives are safe, secure and sustainable over time; creating a sustainable intra-community working relationship, geared towards building group and community cohesiveness in achieving the task of disaster preparedness and enhanced people’s capacity and survivability of disaster affected people.
