Summary: Review and conclusions
In this summary, the facilitation team presents the results from Exercises 1–5, and together with the participants draws conclusions about the assessment phase of the tool. The remaining modules will focus on planning and the actions to take in the future. The objectives of this summary are to:
Ensure that everyone shares the same understanding of the process so far
Ensure a common understanding and clear view of the main results
Prepare participants for the next three modules
This summary of progress so far has proven useful in keeping everyone on board in previous community applications of the tool.
Facilitation Facilitators prepare a blank hazard-response-action table in advance of their presentation (see sample table), and have on hand the hazard maps, seasonal calendars, the vulnerability matrix and the responses-to-impacts table developed in previous exercises. This review of previous exercises is done with all the participants in one group. The hazard-response-action table provides a framework for summarizing the results of Exercises 1–5, and for displaying the relationships among the hazards, impacts and responses. The vulnerability matrix identifies the main hazards of concern, and facilitators list these hazards in the first column of the blank hazard-response-action table. Facilitators then suggest rankings for the severity of impacts based on the prioritization of hazards in Exercise 3 and the vulnerability matrix in Exercise 4, using the same scale as in Exercise 5: +++ = High ++ = Medium + = Low Bearing in mind the impact of hazards on livelihood resources, the participants verify that the rankings are consistent with their views. The idea is to condense what the participants decided in the previous exercises, not create new rankings. The facilitators record the rankings in the second column of the table. For each of the hazards in the first column, facilitators summarize the strengths of the local responses in one ranking per hazard using the same scale as above. When the participants confirm the strength-of-response rankings, the facilitators record the rankings in the third column.
31 Responses to the impacts of hazards
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