Sectors and Themes
Gender
Scale
Sub-national
Project-Level
Resource Type
Guidance and Frameworks
Expertise Level
Practitioner
Language
English
Spanish
Inputs Needed
N/A
Outputs Provided
Understanding of how to engage the community in a vulnerability analysis
developing a risk reduction plan
and implementing the plan
developing a risk reduction plan
and implementing the plan
Developer or Source
Oxfam
Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Analysis: A practitioner's guide is a risk analysis process designed to help staff and partner organizations engage with communities in contexts where natural disasters are significant drivers of poverty and suffering. The PCVA guide is designed to reduce a community's disaster risk in a participatory manner. Steps include (1) making preparations, (2) collecting secondary data, (3) beginning work with the community, (4) analyzing hazards, the impact of climate change, vulnerabilities, and capacities, (5) prioritizing risk, (6) developing a risk reduction action plan, (7) putting the action plan into place.