Inception Report - CDEMA

Title
a VCA. A practical step-by-step guide
for Red Cross Red Crescent staff and
volunteers. Geneva, Switzerland:
International Federation of Red Cross and
Red Crescent Societies
http://www.ifrc.org/Docs/pubs/disasters/re
sources/preparing-disasters/vca/how-todo-vca-en.pdf
International Federation of Red Cross and
Red Crescent Societies Sub-regional
Office Port of Spain. nd. Make that
change: Community Disaster
Preparedness Manual, Facilitators. Port
of Spain, Trinidad: International
Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies Sub-regional Office
Port of Spain.
http://www.proventionconsortium.org/the
mes/default/pdfs/CRA/IFRC2003_meth.p
df
Format
Target
Audience
(Primary)
National
Societies and
International
Federation
delegation VCA
team leaders
and facilitators.
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Summary Description
volunteers who wish to undertake
a local-level VCA, as part of their
community programming strategy.
Print Facilitators This manual for facilitators in
Community Based Disaster
Preparedness (CBDP) is the
result of a decade of work of
various Caribbean Red Cross
Societies and draws on the
experience of hundreds of Red
Cross volunteers and
beneficiaries. It also reflects the
priorities that the Red Cross has
developed world wide with the
inclusion of the Vulnerability
Capacity Assessment (VCA)
methodology, a way of working
that
promotes full participation and
encourages integrated solutions to
the challenges that communities
face in becoming better prepared.
The tools, including “step-by-step”,
are a product of the VCA
methodology that the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies has identified
as a crucial element in fulfilling its
commitment to improve the lives
Comments
data gathering and analytical tools,
including PLA tools.
+Use of case studies and text
boxes for illustration
+Takes facilitators though a step
by step process
+Description of tools and
instructions on how to use them
accompanied by illustrations
(diagrams and photos).