Reducing Risk: Participatory teaming activities for disaster mitigation in Southern Africa

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Author(s)
von Kotze, Astrid
Holloway, Ailsa
Publication date
1996-01-01
Subject
Aid
Conflict and disasters
Keywords
Participation
Aid effectiveness
Training
Disaster risk reduction
DRR
Conflict
Disasters

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Document type
Book
Description
In 1991 -92 Southern Africa was severely affected by the region's "worst drought in living memory". The response which followed drew together the international community with Southern Africa's governments, NGOs, and private companies to mitigate the drought's impact. In partnership with the Department of Adult and Community Education at the University of Natal, the Regional Delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cross Crescent Societies designed a training project to address those needs. This project, which has lead to Reducing Risk began in 1993, after a process of consultation with Southern Africa's NGOs and National Red Cross Societies. Over the course of the next eighteen months, sixteen NGO and Red Cross representatives from ten Southern African countries completed a series of six one-week workshops in disaster management. Reducing Risk is based on that six week course.
Table of contents
Introduction; Section I: Key Concepts and Risk Factors; 1 What terms do we use in disaster management?; 2 What are the components of disaster management?; 3What do we mean by hazards, risks,vulnerabilities and capacities?; 4 How can we check our understanding of terms?; 5 How does the 'disaster crunch model' work?; 6 Which disaster model works for me?; 7 What do we do in emergency preparedness and risk reduction?; 8 What is gender?; 9 How do structural adjustment policies affect risk?; 10 What are the causes of droughts and how do they impact on the environment?; Section II: Risk Assessment: Community-based Considerations; 1 How do we construct hazard, risk and capacity maps?; 2 How is community-based research relevant to risk assessment?; 3 How do we construct vulnerability and capacity assessments?; 4 What resources are available for reducing risk?; 5 How does gender impact on vulnerability and capacity?; 6 How do we assess household food security?; 7 How do we target.households most at risk?; 8 Why do we need to understand perceptions of risk?; Section III: Risk Reduction and Emergency Preparedness and Planning; 1Do you have what it takes, in risk reduction?; 2 How do we plan for emergency preparedness and response?; 3 Why should emergency preparedness and response be integrated with development?; 4 How do we integrate risk reduction with emergency response actions?; 5 How is gender analysis a tool for risk reduction planning?; 6 Why are gender considerations essential to emergency preparedness and response planning?; 7 How do we incorporate gender into risk reduction planning?; 8 How do we identify risk reduction measures?; 9 How can we learn from past experience when planning risk reduction projects?; 10 What is the role of different players in drought interventions?; 11 How do we prepare public awareness campaigns?; 12 What is the role of development workers in risk reduction?; References
Pages
339
ISBN
978-0-85598-347-5
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/122988
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