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Earthquake Preparedness Drill Manuals: Step-by-Step Guides for Schools, Businesses, Non-Profits, and Government Agencies (ShakeOut)

These four drill manuals, developed by the Earthquake Country Alliance as part of the Great California ShakeOut program, provide step-by-step guidance for planning and conducting earthquake preparedness drills across different organizational settings: K-12 schools, businesses, non-profit and other organizations, and government agencies and facilities. Each manual is structured around the core earthquake response action of […]

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Earthquake Property Protection: Practical How-To Guides for Securing Buildings, Equipment, and Utilities (FEMA)

This collection of practical guidance flyers, published by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), provides step-by-step instructions for homeowners, building managers, and facility staff on how to protect property and reduce earthquake-related damage through structural and non-structural mitigation measures. The series covers a wide range of actions that can be taken before an earthquake

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Drought Preparedness Planning: Building Institutional Capacity

Past attempts to manage drought and its impacts through a reactive, crisis management approach have been ineffective, poorly coordinated, and untimely.  Because of the ineffectiveness of this approach, greater interest has evolved in recent years in the adoption of a more proactive risk-based management approach in some countries. The 10-step drought planning process developed by Wilhite (1991) was

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Urban Drought Guidebook: 2008 Updated Edition

Managing water shortages involves using programs to temporarily reduce demand and find alternate water to temporarily increase supply. The guidebook discusses water shortage management programs that belong in water shortage contingency plans. It was first written in 1988, and then updated in 1991 and 2008 to help water suppliers cope with potentially severe drought and other water shortages. The

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Drought-Ready Communities: A Guide to Community Drought Preparedness

The process outlined in the Guide is broad-based, recognizing that drought creates problems that go beyond the scope of what water suppliers alone can address. Worksheets and other exercises can help communities see how drought has affected water supplies and overall community well-being in the past. The Guide can also help communities identify their drought

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Drought tips from FEMA

A set of tips on drought preparedness put together by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the United States. While many of the tips may be US specific, some can be readily adapted to other country contexts. FEMA. http://www.ready.gov/drought http://www.ready.gov/drought

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Community-Based Health and First Aid (CBHFA): BCC Trainer’s Manual

The purpose of the Trainer’s manual is to prepare trainers to facilitate the behavior change communication (BCC) for community-based volunteers training. The information in this manual is intended to help prepare users to facilitate the BCC learning sessions so as to build the capacity of volunteers to work to change behavior in their communities.  Online

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Community-based Health and First Aid (CBHFA): Facilitator’s Guide Vol. 2

The Facilitator Guide is designed to implement a CBHFA in action approach called “learning by doing”. The purpose of learning by doing is to prepare CBHFA in action volunteers and their coaches to be agents of change who transform their learning into community action. Facilitators will help volunteers learn in a flexible and action-oriented manner.

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Community-based Health and First Aid (CBHFA): Facilitator’s Guide Vol. 1

The Facilitator Guide is designed to implement a CBHFA in action approach called “learning by doing”. The purpose of learning by doing is to prepare CBHFA in action volunteers and their coaches to be agents of change who transform their learning into community action. Facilitators will help volunteers learn in a flexible and action-oriented manner.

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