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By: Rustico “Rusty” Biñas, Rhinadel Cañete, Dustin L. Joiner
About The Guidebook
Research Foundation
This guide is grounded in peer-reviewed research published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Management (IJDRM), which demonstrates how participatory, community-led risk mapping can generate decision-relevant evidence to inform disaster risk reduction and resilience planning. It draws specifically on Differential Risk and the Elements of Resilience: A Framework for Advancing Disaster Risk Reduction, International Journal of Disaster Risk Management, 7(2), 209–238. https://doi.org/10.18485/ijdrm.2025.7.2.12
Purpose of this Guidebook
This guidebook is designed to support community-led risk analysis that leads to clear, actionable planning decisions. It provides facilitators, local authorities, and partners with a practical and structured approach to engaging communities in identifying and characterizing hazards, determining the degree of vulnerability, assessing capacity gaps, and prioritizing actions for disaster risk reduction and resilience.
The purpose of this guide is not only to document risk, but to translate community knowledge into decision-ready information. Through Participatory Community-Managed Risk Mapping (PCRM), communities generate evidence that clarifies who and what is most at risk, why risk persists, and which actions will have the greatest impact.
This guidebook supports:
- Inclusive and accountable participation, ensuring diverse community perspectives inform risk analysis;
- Consistent and transparent prioritization, based on degree risk rather than perception alone;
- Action-oriented outputs, directly feeding into Community Resiliency Plans, humanitarian response, anticipatory action, and development programming.
By bridging research, facilitation, and real-world application, this guidebook ensures that community priorities are not just heard, but are articulated, defensible, and ready for investment. It moves beyond the theory of change to provide the facts for transformation—practical evidence that drives planning and coordination.