Dear John,
That work will not have been in vain despite the lack of funding for the
additional state. As it turns out ProVention has developed the kind of
tool box with case studies, guidance notes to them, methods, etc. You
can find it at http://www.proventionconsortium.org/CRA_toolkit.htm
(although in a week or 10 days ProVention is launching a completely
revamped web site, so the url address will change).
By copy of this message I'm suggesting to Bruno and Maya at ProVention
that they put a link to your reports and documents from the pilot phase.
Thanks for all your efforts!
BEN
Ben Wisner
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John Twigg wrote:
> In 1998-9 the Benfield Hazard Research Centre was involved in a South Bank
> University pilot project that evaluated methods that are used to assess
> communities' vulnerability to disasters and capacity for dealing with
> them. This included evaluating participatory techniques used by agencies
> working on long-term development projects, which could be adapted for
> vulnerability assessment. During the one-year pilot phase, which was
> funded by ECHO, methods were assessed in three countries: India, the
> Philippines and Kenya. The locations were chosen to provide a range of
> hazard types, social structures and political systems - all factors that
> affect the viability of community-based and participatory methods. The
> local partners for this phase were the Disaster Mitigation Institute
> (India), Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (Philippines) and Drought
> Preparedness Intervention and Recovery Programme (DPIRP) (Kenya).
>
> The original aim of the project was to carry out more case studies and
> produce a 'toolkit' of methods, comprising a set of principles, training
> materials, case studies and working guidelines, to be distributed to
> partners and other operational organizations, training agencies,
> documentation centres and academic institutions. However, ECHO’s support
> was confined to the pilot phase and the additional funding required could
> not be found.
>
> Reports and other documents from the pilot phase can be downloaded from
> http://www.benfieldhrc.org/disaster_studies/projects/imp_com_dis_mit.htm
>
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