What Makes A Community Disaster Ready? A Meta-Evaluation.

with governmental and non-governmental actors whose mandate and resources enable them to address the community’s priority needs in risk reduction.

by systematically assessing and comparing the value of different interventions and by involving communities throughout.

reflected in Theories of change and context analysis, by documenting success stories, by training staff, and by adapting monitoring and evaluation indicators.

in all aid programs, as a conscious reflex at every juncture and for every service delivery.

working with donors on flexible budgets and longer timeframes and document the changes over the life of the projects.

ensure community preparedness programs strengthen the basic components of early warning systems (EWS) and make a functioning, inclusive EWS one condition for exit or transition.

by strengthening partnerships with local RC/RC actors who can sustain work that enables local communities and individuals to be first preparers as often as first responders.

and disseminate the chosen model across the American Red Cross portfolio, requesting programs to build proposals around it and welcoming contextualization.

for community preparedness programs, to enable common learning across country‑level projects.