What is Community Participation Community participation, generally, refers to the involvement of people in any project to solve their own problems or to develop their socio-economic conditions. They participate in setting goals, and preparing, implementing and evaluating plans and programs. Basically, it is a dynamic group process in which all members of a group contribute, share or are influenced by the interchange of ideas and activities toward problem-solving or decision-making .

3. Community participation, generally, refers to the
involvement of people in any project to solve
their own problems or to develop their socio-
economic conditions. They participate in setting
goals, and preparing, implementing and
evaluating plans and programs.
Basically, it is a dynamic group process in which
all members of a group contribute, share or are
influenced by the interchange of ideas and
activities toward problem-solving or decision-
making .

4.  Enhancing professional skills and knowledge of
key personnel and strengthening capacities for
risk assessment
 Addressing the issues of vulnerable groups i.e.
the issues of women, children, disabled
 Community-based programming for
preparedness, mitigation and risk reduction
 Developing partnership approach to disaster
management involving all stakeholders – the
government, local communities, NGOs, media,
private sector, academia, and donor
communities.

5.  Community participation motivates people to
work together – people feel a sense of
◦ community and recognize the benefits of their
involvement.
 Social, religious or traditional obligations for
mutual help
 Genuine community participation – people
see a genuine opportunity to better their own
lives and for the community as a whole
 Remuneration in cash or kind

6.  Needs assessment
 Planning
 Mobilizing
 Training
 Implementing
 Monitoring and evaluation.

7.  Focus group discussion
 Awareness and conscious buildup
 Collect information and distribution
 Mapping the vulnerable zone
 Risk assessment
 Early warning by using indigenous knowledge

8.  First aid and medi care
 Emergency response during disaster
 Rehabilitee the affected people

9.  Relief
 Recovery
 Reconstruction
 Restoration

10.  A community based disaster reduction effort
is most successful when they involve the
direct participation of the people most likely
to be exposed to hazards – in the planning,
decision-making, and operational activities at
all levels of responsibility. Local leaders,
drawn from political, social and economic
sectors of society need to assume a primary
responsibility for the protection of their own
community.

11.  Such an approach needs to develop activities
that can strengthen communities’ capacities
to identify and cope with hazards, and more
broadly to improve residents’ livelihoods

12.  Ensuring the local people are kept informed
 Dissemination of widely the success stories
among the local people about reducing risks at
households.
 Build capacity of local institution, volunteers,
and the community to adopt disaster resistant
housing and agriculture.
 Training the students youth local club members
and volunteers on community based water
purification techniques.
 Identifying open space to establish field
hospitals and medical operations for mass
causalities management.

13. •Engaging trained institutions, volunteers and people
in the field for speedy dissemination of warnings.
•Emergency Escape routes
•Location of emergency medical services
•Emergency contacts list
•Parking points for ambulances and fire service routes
•Preparing the rescue team for rescue operation

14.  Community members are the main actors and propellers; they
also directly share in the benefits of disaster risk reduction and
development.
 By participating the community people in many preparedness
activities, they can increase their capacity level which will help
them to minimize the disaster risk.
 By using indigenous knowledge , they can forecast a disaster
and get prepared for that.
 As community people know it’s environment better , they can
make better plan to mitigate the probability of disaster.
 When community is involved in disaster management planning
process, community accept it as their own responsibility.
 As community is a first responder before the external help reach
to the victims, they have to ready for that by participating
properly

15.  the complexity of individual motivations
 participation requires effort and time
 restricted women participation and cultural
boundaries.
 local power relation within the community
 local knowledge influenced by local power
relations.
 creating development fatigue among
stakeholders.