Community Based Disaster Preparedness: a Handbook for Task Forces

Publication language
English
Pages
6pp
Date published
01 Jan 2009
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Capacity development, Local capacity, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Response and recovery
Countries
India
Organisations
Sustainable Environment Ecological Development Society (SEEDS)

This handbook was designed to act as a reference for the community-level disaster management task forces to list and illustrate the skills, techniques and procedures needed to confront the different situations that can arise when a natural hazard occurs. This is a supporting document to a wider community based disaster prepzredness programme. Techniques and methods mentioned in the book are the reference and should be performed by trained individuals only.