Report of a survey among local businesses about their levels of awareness and preparedness for natural hazards.
This paper discusses the inclusive blend of simulations, models and games and other digital and/or online technologies with local/regional "virtual communities" and communities of practice as a potentially powerful and effective approach to comprehensive community emergency preparedness.
Community education programs to increase community disaster awareness, local preparedness, and first response organization and skills in Turkey.
This document, from US government, provides interim planning guidance for State, territorial, tribal and local communities that focuses on several measures other than vaccination and drug treatment that might be useful during an influenza pandemic to reduce its harm.
Report from a comprehensive household vulnerability and risk study in Catanduanes and Camarines Sur provinces in the Bicol region of the Philippines that compared vulnerability in communities that had received ACF assistance versus others that had not.
UNDP launched an initiative on Community Monitoring & Preparedness for Natural Disasters, COMPREND. Established in September 2004, this new global initiative promotes activities that catalyze environmental monitoring and preparedness efforts at the local community level for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and severe weather disasters. Founded on south-south cooperation, i.e., collaboration between developing countries, COMPREND is a global program that encourages the sharing of community disaster experiences and advances in forecasting technologies. In 2007, COMPREND continues its efforts on the grass-root level, focusing on Asian communities such as those in the Philippines, China, and India.
Guide designed to help emergency management personnel design better infrastructure protection programs in collaboration with others in the US Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS), other Federal agencies, and the private sector.
"An aid management solution designed to track and analyze contributions from the private sector (i.e. private companies and foundations) to the relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the tsunami affected countries."
U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency's Fiscal Year 2009 Application Guidance for 14 federal grant programs to assist state and local governments in strengthening community preparedness.
