The CBDM department at IDEP is continuously developing new culturally appropriate and accessible methods to disseminate knowledge on community disaster preparedness. These include training on how local communities and community facilitators can identify and address risks and threats in their area.

As a direct result of these CBDM trainings, community members develop community risk maps, which are posted in public areas within their communities. Click here to view a slide show of Community Disaster Maps created to date.

Whenever possible, local facilitators are recruited along with local partners who are trained to assist with the socialization and ongoing capacity building of their communities in disaster preparedness and risk reduction. In this way new people are trained, who in turn are able to support their own communities in the ongoing process of disaster management.

• Knowledge about disaster - What is disaster? What disasters and hazards are your communities prone to? What are the signs of disaster occurring, what to do if they happen and how to use the CBDM kit for effective disaster management
• Community preparedness and risk reduction - History of disaster in the area, community asset and risk assessment, list of medical facilities and key contact people in the area, disaster preparedness and planning actions appropriate to local hazards. Development of Community Risk Maps and evacuation plans
• Emergency response - How to assist victims at time of a disaster including basic evacuation

Training of CBDM Facilitators
CBDM Facilitator trainings include hands-on experience conducting CBDM community trainings as outlined above, while developing facilitation skills for risk reduction, community preparedness, response and recovery. These trainings:

• Increase local facilitators’ ability for implementation of local community preparedness plans and actions
• Increase ability to facilitate the delivery of IDEP’s CBDM kit components to local communities
• Increase capacity for community facilitation including monitoring and evaluation

• Knowledge about disaster - What is disaster? What disasters and hazards is your school prone to? What are the signs of disaster occurring, what to do if they happen and how to use the CBDM kit for effective disaster management at your school
• School preparedness and risk reduction - List of medical facilities and key contact people in the area, preparedness actions appropriate to local hazards. Development of a School Risk Map and evacuation plan
• Emergency response - How to assist victims at time of a disaster including basic school evacuation training

• Disaster awareness games and activities for children that cover: what is a disaster? What disaster is your school prone to? What are the signs of disaster occurring? What to do if it happens
• Screening of various educational disaster planning and response related films for kids
• Question and answer sessions with students
• Evacuation drills with students participation

Follow up and support
After trainings and / or community CBDM activities, IDEP’s team of CBDM trainers and advisors are available for support and troubleshooting of local projects on an ongoing basis.

Who can benefit from these trainings? Community Representatives

• Local NGOs
• International NGO staff
• Local stakeholders in community based disaster management
• Local Schools and Educators