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CARIBBEAN TRUST- Community-based Pre-Disaster Mitigation
for CBOs/FBOs
INTRODUCTION
Setting Up for Success in Community-Based Mitigation
Learn how to establish a foundation and organization for
a community-based mitigation program.
Checking out the Local Mitigation Scene
1. Brainstorm local mitigation activities
• Determine if any volunteer mitigation efforts
have occurred in the past or are presently underway.
• If community-based mitigation has been undertaken, learn about
the activities, groups involved, and perceived successes and challenges.
2. Identifying local mitigation opportunities for volunteers Community-based
Pre-Disaster Mitigation for CBOs/FBOs
Effectively Identifying
and Recruiting Individual Volunteers
1. Obtaining buy-in from your organization
• How does your organization make decisions?
• Can a committee form on its own and act?
• Does a governing body or individual have to approve or endorse
the effort?
• What kind of decision process is required?
• What kind of process would engage the most widespread support?
• What actions must be taken for your organization to decide to
participate in mitigation programs?
• Develop an action plan for obtaining buy-in from your organization
to participate in community-based
mitigation. Consider the following:
• What actions need to be taken?
• What kind of schedule is appropriate?
• Who should be responsible?
2. Identifying and recruiting volunteers from your organization
• Creating a list of volunteer candidates
3. Developing an action plan for recruiting volunteers
• How will volunteer candidates be contacted?
• What kind of information will need to be shared during the initial
contact?
• Who will put the information together?
• Who will contact specific individuals?
• What will candidates be asked to do initially and in the future?
• What’s in it for the volunteers (why should they participate,
and what are the benefits to participation)?
• What is the schedule?
• Who in our group can spearhead the volunteer contact effort? Community-based
Pre-Disaster Mitigation for CBOs/FBOs
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