Enabling Communities to Manage Risks: Community Based Disaster Preparedness

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the most important theme of Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held at Cancun, Maxico. Community Based Disaster Preparedness: Enabling Communities to Manage Risks. It primarily focuses on how CBDP can empower communities to manage their risks through locally owned and locally appropriate approaches. The key lessons from ASDMA's recently finished capacity building project on CBDP have also been highlighted in this issue. The rationale behind promoting CBDP is that communities are the first responders of a disaster, therefore they should be given the necessary training to mitigate and manage their risks.

This issue's contents includes: 

1. Mainstreaming Communities in DRR;
2. Community Based Disaster Preparedness;
3. Corporate Social Responsibility as a Response to Disaster Risk Management;
4. Capacity Development and Context of DRR-CCA in Assam;
5. Sustainable Urban Development through Integrating Disaster and Climate Resilience in Assam;
6. ISET: Initiatives in Community Based Disaster Risk Management in India
7. Building Back Better – Case of 2001 Gujarat Earthquake and Integrating Resilience to Health Sector.