Guidebook on Community Engagement for Preparedness and Resilience

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Author(s)
Herbst, K. and Yannacci, J.
Pages
75pp
Date published
01 Jan 2011
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Community-led, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction
Organisations
American Red Cross

The Guidebook on Community Engagement for Preparedness and

Resilience offers American Red Cross (ARC) Chapters a
comprehensive strategy for working in communities to increase
disaster preparedness and build resilience.
It is intended as a resource to guide American Red Cross employees
and volunteers in planning, implementing and monitoring disaster
preparedness activities in collaboration with community networks.

The Guidebook is designed to help readers:

• Understand what it means to foster preparedness and resilience;
• Collaborate with networks in the community to improve
preparedness and resilience;
• Improve their capacity to engage and work with the community;
and
• Improve their capacity to monitor preparedness programs and
evaluate the impact.