• The World Bank - Disaster Risk Management: This website provides access to a range of resources related to Disaster Risk Literacy, including global risk report and relevant events. It also provides guidance on how to promote Disaster Risk Literacy and how to incorporate it into Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies.

Having good knowledge and understanding of disaster risks can help reduce disaster risk and impacts.

Disaster risk literacy refers to ability to understand disaster risk factors and potential impact of disasters on individuals and communities, and to think and take appropriate actions to reduce disaster risk [4,5]. Increasing disaster risk literacy empowers individuals, organisations, and communities to take necessary actions for disaster risk reduction, resilience building and disaster risk mitigating disaster impacts [6]. For example: 

1. Disaster health risk profiling for vulnerable subgroups [1]  

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Risk Assessment Toolkit

The negative impacts of any emergencies or disasters highlight the importance of the all-hazards risk management approach in all emergency preparedness and response actions, which builds on multi-sectorial and whole-of-society approach to ensure inclusive and non-discriminatory process of developing capacities in the communities.

Community Disaster Risk Management including Disaster Risk Literacy and Addressing the Needs of Subpopulations - Disaster risk literacy

Disaster risk management (DRM) involves various forms of policies, interventions, and activities to reduce vulnerability and to increase resiliance and capacity.

Whilst all communities and countries are at risk of being exposed to all type of disasters, the disaster impact directly associates with how individuals and communities are resiliant or susceptable to hazardous events [1]. Understanding and identifying vulnerability of an individual or a community is a key component in developing and implementing Disaster Risk Management (DRM) policies and programmes to increase disaster risk reduction capacity and resilience in communities [2].