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PARTICIPATING AGENCY1

RURAL COMMUNITY BASED DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT

(CBDRM) WORKBOOKS2

Workshop Venue: xxxxxxxxx

Workshop Dates: xxxxxxxxx

Participant’s Name:

1 Agency Logo would also be included on this front page

2 This could be produced in either English or the local language

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Contents Contents Page

Introduction 3 Country Map of Target Area 4

Purpose of DRM Workshop 5

Story Telling 6 The Disaster Risk Management Cycles (DRMC) 7

Fast-onset DRMC 8

Slow-onset DRMC 9

The Ten Seed Technique (TST) Ranking Tool 10

Main Categories Identified 11 Group work: Causes of identified Categories 12

Group work: Effects of identified Categories 13 Group work: Practical measures of dealing with Causes & Effects 14

Practical Measures: Local & External Initiatives 15 Village map highlighting Hazards 16

Recall from Day 1 17

Extra details (eg Country Water Resources Diagram) 18 Vulnerable Community Groups affected by Natural Hazards 19

Key Stakeholders involved in DRM 20 Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) diagram 21

Group work on CHS 22

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) diagram 23 Notes on DRR & DRM Planning diagrams 24

The DRM Planning diagram 25 The Project Management Cycle (PMC) & Project Design Document (PDD)

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Notes on PMC & PDD 27

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Introduction

Welcome to this workbook !

This Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) material has

been produced by TorqAid – www.torqaid.com, an Australian-based

humanitarian and training consultancy.

TorqAid supports humanitarian projects across the Asian-Pacific region; the

Middle East; Southern and Eastern Africa; Europe; and remote, rural and

urban Australia.

The heart of TorqAid’s consultancy and training work is a combination of a

close interactive relationship with the community in question, combined

with a DRM diagrammatic framework which can be found in the ‘Resources’

section of www.torqaid.com. TorqAid also offers DRM training, either

customised workshops for individual clients, or an online program. Over 100

DRM and Participatory Project Management (PPM) workshops have been

facilitated across Australia and overseas since 2002. Details of training

courses can be found in the ‘Training’ section of www.torqaid.com

This CBDRM workbook is designed for communities which wish to identify

the natural hazards (such as tropical cyclones, flooding, drought, earthquake)

facing them, and then work through some options of dealing with these. The

process involved is highly participative, and involves mapping; storytelling;

the use of diagrams; brainstorming and ranking of issues using the Ten Seed

Technique (TST); identificationof key stakeholders and vulnerable groups;

introduction to the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS); jand group work

looking at causes, effects and possible solutions to the challenges facing the

community in question.

This approach has been field tested in a number of locations, including

humanitarian and development situations in Vanuatu, India, Laos, Sri Lanka,

Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.

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Map of targetted area

together with project locations

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Purpose of DRM Workshop

The purpose of this workshop is for the TorqAid partner facilitation team to work with the community at xxxx to do

following:

o To identify the key natural hazards which affect their community

o To look at the causes and effects of these natural hazards

o To explore some of the practical measures for dealing with these hazards

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Story-telling

Stories from participants on both:

o How they were affected by a recent major hazard

o How they were able to respond, particularly positively to this

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The Disaster Risk Management Cycles (DRMC)

Two versions:

o The ‘fast onset’ version of the DRMC, one which describes (for example) a tropical cyclone or an earthquake

o The ‘slow onset’ version of the DRMC, one which describes a drought

Fast onset DRMC notes:

Slow onset DRMC notes:

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Fast onset version of DRMC

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Slow onset version of DRMC

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Ten Seed Technique (TST) Ranking Exercise

o Brainstorming of main challenges arising from recent natural hazards to have affected community

Challenges identified TST score Category

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Main Categories identified:

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Group Work:

o Causes of highlighted category

o Effects of highlighted category

o Practical measures designed to counter either the cause and/or the effect of the highlighted category

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Group work: Causes of highlighted challenge category

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Group work: Effects of highlighted challenge category

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Group work: Practical measures designed to counter either

the cause and/or the effect of the highlighted category

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Practical Measures

Practical Measures which the community can initiate themselves:

Measures which may require outside/external assistance:

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VILLAGE COMMUNITY MAP, HIGHLIGHTING HAZARDS

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Recall from Day 1

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Extra Infogram – eg Water Resources Diagram

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Vulnerable Groups in Community affected by Natural Hazards

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Key Stakeholders involved in Disaster Risk Management

Category A3:

Category B:

Category C:

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The Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS)

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Group work on CHS

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The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) diagram

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Notes on DRR & DRM Planning Diagrams

DRR diagram:

DRM planning diagram

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The Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Planning diagram

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The Project Management Cycle (PMC) and the Project

Design Document (PDD)

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Notes on PMC diagram & Project Design Document (PDD)

PMC diagram

PDD