Exercise 3: Prioritization of hazards
Participants summarize the knowledge gained in the map and calendar exercises, draw conclusions and identify the hazards most relevant for their community. The objectives of this exercise are to:
Create a common understanding of the main hazards affecting the community
Highlight changes and trends in hazards and determine possible explanations
Create a common understanding of the differences in who is most affected
This exercise should follow as soon after Exercise 2 as is feasible.
Facilitation Facilitators make sure the hazard maps and seasonal calendars produced in the previous exercises are visible to all participants, who meet in one group. Facilitators provide a large sheets of paper and pencils or markers and materials for ranking hazards – sticky paper dots, stones, nuts or whatever works best for the participants. Facilitators help participants summarize the findings of Exercises 1 and 2 by asking the following questions:
→ Which hazards relate to difficult moments for the community? → What changes and trends related to hazards and vulnerable periods are apparent, and what are possible explanations?
→ Who is most affected? By which hazards? → What are the most relevant or threatening hazards? Facilitators help the participants make connections between hazards and periods of stress, identify patterns, propose and evaluate explanations for their observations and draw conclusions about what their assessment means to them. Following this discussion, facilitators form groups of 2-3 people, and each group identifies three main hazards. As the groups report their hazards, the facilitators prepare a list on a large sheet of paper visible to all participants. Facilitators can refer to the hazard map and seasonal calendar and ask again for other hazards that have not come up in the earlier exercises and discussion.
19 Climate change and hazard analysis
Module
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