The ‘Characteristics of a Disaster-resilient Community’ project, which
supports processes of community mobilisation and partnership for disaster
risk reduction, has a new webpage, on the ProVention Consortium’s website
(www.proventionconsortium.org/?pageid=90). This contains English and
Spanish versions of the key resource document identifying characteristics
of resilience, case studies showing how the ‘Characteristics’ resource has
been used in the field, and other background material. More case studies
and practical guidance will be added in the coming months, and a revised
version of the ‘Characteristics’ will be published for the second session
of the UN Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2009.
Everyone is welcome to use the ‘Characteristics’ and feedback is welcome:
visit the website or contact John Twigg ([log in to unmask]).
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