Community based disaster risk reduction in Sri Lanka: A compendium of good practices
Overview
The compendium presents good practices of the community based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) approach implemented under a Disaster Preparedness project in the North and East of Sri Lanka, supported by the Disaster Preparedness ECHO (DIPECHO). Learning drawn from the project can be replicated and built into future interventions. The compendium also highlights the post-conflict scenario, and how CBDRR approach can be a gateway to strengthen women’s leadership, governance, sustainable livelihood and agricultural practices.
Keywords
- Agriculture
- Aid effectiveness
- Cash transfers
- Community building
- Conflict
- Debt relief
- Disaster risk management
- Disaster risk reduction
- Disasters
- Drought
- DRR
- Enterprise development
- Finance
- Floods
- Food prices
- Food production
- Food reserves
- Food security
- Labour standards
- Land rights
- Livelihoods
- Protection
- Reconstruction
- Sustainable livelihoods approach
- Water and sanitation
- WEL
- Wellbeing
- Women farmers
- Women's Economic Leadership
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978-1-78077-454-1How to cite this resource
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