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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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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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