Managing disaster risk is complex, but it should not be complicated.
Whether you need more capacity, or you need help setting course. We are committed to evolving how communities approach resilience.​​​​​​​
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Every organization's journey is different, but there are some common elements when pursuing community resilience.
Community Risk Assessments
Understanding the drivers of disasters is the first step to building resilience and is a decision-making tool for the whole organization. Our Community Risk Assessments, consider the values a community wants to protect, identifies core consequences, and explores the drivers of disaster and resilience.
Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies
What to do and how to prioritize your efforts. That is the purpose of our DRR Strategy work. In addition to a list of potential projects that are appropriate to your organization, we provide context into their relative strengths and challenges so that you can make informed decisions.
Voluntary Local Reviews
Both the Sendai Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals are structured to provide direction to organizations. Voluntary local reviews benchmark your progress towards meeting the intentions of these international frameworks.
Organizational Structures
Policy Development & Review
With so many competing demands, enshrining your intentions in policy helps ensure sustainable progress towards your disaster risk management goals. We can help recommend, develop, or review new or existing organizational policies.
Plans
Training & Exercises
The world around us is changing, and our work is evolving. Is your organization setup for success? We look across your organization and suggest ways to shift your organization structure and reporting lines to keep pace with the realities that we face.
To often "Plans" become a dumping ground to collect all associated information on a topic.
Our first step to developing any plan is to ask what is its purpose. We build plans that are user friendly and can be actioned.
While one-off exercises have their place, we believe there is more value in a training and exercise program. No matter the type of session it is important to us that participants are enabled, build their confidence, and build their understanding of the field.
We can help scope, design, facilitate and report on your training and exercises. We specialize in table-top exercises but have experience in all kinds of training and exercises, including drills, workshops, table-top, and functional.
Monitoring & Evaluation
After Action Reporting, is just one component of continuous learning that we can help organizations implement. Individuals' and Programs' continuous learning and improvement is enabled by ongoing monitoring and follow-up evaluations.