
Mitigating the Millennium
Proceedings of a seminar on community participation and impact measurement in disaster preparedness and mitigation programmes.
Published: 1997
Pages: 80
eBook: 9781780444161
Introduction 1 | |||
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Section 1 Case Study Presentations: Community Participation 2 | |||
in Practice | |||
1 The Key to Sustainable Disaster Mitigation 4 | |||
Rajendra Desai and Rupal Desai, Ahmedabad Study Action Group | |||
2 The Listening Legacy: Challenges for Participatory Approaches 28 | |||
John Mitchell, British Red Cross | |||
3 Incorporating Local Level Mitigation Strategies into National and 35 | |||
International Disaster Response | |||
Nick Hall, Intermediate Technology | |||
Section 2 Reports on morning discussion sessions 47 | |||
Participants broke into three working groups to discuss: | |||
4 Defining a participative approach to disaster mitigation 48 | |||
5 Evaluating and measuring the impact of mitigation projects 49 | |||
6 Arguments for prioritising mitigation 50 | |||
Section 3 Agency presentations: improving practice: ideas 51 | |||
for future action | |||
7 Emergency preparedness in cyclone prone areas in Madagascar 52 | |||
Remko Vonk, Director of CARE International Madagascar, | |||
June 1992-July 1996 | |||
8 Ways and means of improving practice 60 | |||
Andrew Maskrey, General Coordinator of LA RED (Latin America) | |||
9 The challenge of getting donors involved in disaster mitigation 62 | |||
Roger Clarke, Overseas Development Administration (ODA) | |||
Section 4 Recommendations from afternoon discussion sessions 63 | |||
Participants divided into three working groups to make recommendations on | |||
initiatives which would reduce the risk of hazards through the promotion of | |||
community based disaster mitigation programmes at the: | |||
10 Local level 64 | |||
11 National level 65 | |||
12 International level 66 | |||
Appendices 1 Resource list 68 | |||
2 Profiles of speakers and facilitators 69 | |||
3 List of participants 72 | |||
4 Programme 74 |