In view of pain and impotence by the loss of human lives in the event of disasters, it is necessary to strengthen the participation, organization and self-management of communities to reduce the risk of disaster. Go to the Downloads section of Modules
Education, Organization and Community Preparedness for Risk Reduction
Facilitates the development of a rapid assessment which includes the participation of each one of the actors in society (public, private and other organizations) as well as groups of women, young people, children and the elderly who, in many instances, are the mst affected when hazards become disasters.
Community Maintenance of Schools
A school maintenance program is the group of tasks and actions that a school or education centre develops and implements to prolong the useful life of school buildings, its owned goods, furniture and equipment.
Prepared Family
Seeing the pain and the impotence by the loss of human lives, it is necessary to strengthen the participation, the organization and the self-management of the communities, to reduce the risks of disasters.
Floods
This module offers the community the opportunity to recognize the conditions of the land and the vulnerabilities of it in case of floods, and also offers practical measures to face floods and its effects.
Community First Aid
Human life is the most precious possession that we have and we must therefore protect it.
This module was designed as a basic guide of first aid, thought about the communities and the minimum necessities in case of having to offer aid at the time of a disaster.
Prevention of Disasters in Rural Water Systems
Protected School
Facilitates the drawing up of a school security plan which includes the participation of administrative personnel, teachers, students, neighbours of the Educational Centre, as well as ensuring coordination with other institutions involved in risk management.
Early Warning
The present guide offers communities good community practices on early-warning, as well as the way to develop and implement them at a significantly low economic cost and with high impact.
Management of temporary shelters
This guide offers community leaders and other community members a practical guide on the management of temporary shelters, from the opening of the shelter, as well as an exit strategy of the sheltered community.
Community Dialogue on Water and Climate
The objective of this manual is to guide local communities in the development of a community dialogue on water and climate, in a way, that they can share, transfer and learn adaptation practices in the occurrence of meteorological events.
Psychological First Aid
Avoid that extreme disaster and emergency situations affect more those people that have already been affected. This guide seeks offering emotional support until professional health staff can provide a more medium and long-term psychological support.
Social Micro-Projects
Social Micro-projects is a compliment of the identification works developed with the rest of materials of the “Better be Prepared” Series…”, these community assessments are re- addressed in this process, providing follow-up that involves: validation, update and information analysis, focusing on the implementation of a micro-project’s phases.
Healthy Home
This module contains a proper orientation about community health with the purpose that the members of the family and community know and are better prepared to face some risks that can affect the health of loved ones and neighbours.
Community Disaster Risk Reduction Teams The purpose is to provide useful and practical information, so with the help of a facilitator, that doesn’t need to be an expert on the subject, the community can identify the main hazards in which their aqueduct is exposed to.
