Introduction to Community-Based Disaster Risk Management

Learn about the foundations of Community-Based Disaster Risk Management and discover innovative practices from the field.

About This Course

In 2018, 10,400 people around the world lost their lives due to disasters, with Asia accounting for 74% of these fatalities (Munich Re, 2018). For Indonesia, 2018 was the deadliest year in over a decade with 4,231 people dead or missing due to multiple devastating earthquake and tsunami events (BNPB, 2018).

Against this backdrop, safeguarding communities and the most vulnerable has never been more critical to limit loss of precious lives and damage to societies. Communities possess vital knowledge and experience in identifying, understanding, and managing disaster risks that they face, and harnessing this potential is at the core of Community-Based Disaster Risk Management, or CBDRM.

This course, ‘Introduction to Community-Based Disaster Risk Management’, is offered by the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), Government of Indonesia, with support from Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Offered in both English and Indonesian, this course aims to introduce you to the key concepts and terminologies of CBDRM and guide you through the steps in the CBDRM process. This introductory course is open to anyone interested in learning about CBDRM, and is particularly useful for stakeholders in disaster risk management with a desire to expand their knowledge base.

To access this course in Indonesian, click here.

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Course outline

Course Introduction
Module 1: Key concepts and terminology

Disaster Risk Management

Community-Based Disaster Risk Management

Module 2: The CBDRM process

Step 1: Selecting the community

Step 2: Building rapport and understanding the community

Step 3: Participatory Disaster Risk Assessment

Step 4: Participatory Disaster Risk Management Planning

Step 5: Building and training community DRM organizations

Step 6: Community-managed implementation

Step 7: Participatory monitoring and evaluation

Module 3: Case studies from the field

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