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Step 2 – Resilience and the disaster cycle

Listening actively to the local community's understanding and experience of resilience

2022 Available in English

Diagram illustrating the 5 steps in the Church and Community resilience toolkit

A five step guide to help churches and communities respond to the shocks and stresses they might face.

A group of people with disabilities in Rwanda sitting in a circle focused on a lady facilitator in the middle.

From: Reveal toolkit: Tools to build resilience in churches and communities

A guide to help churches and local communities create effective disaster preparedness plans

We all come with our own understanding of resilience. 

The second step in this toolkit includes actively listening to the local words a community uses when explaining resilience and talking about their experience. This expands our understanding and moves us towards a more holistic approach. Listening and using the disaster cycle tool encourages us to think beyond just disaster response. to preparedness, mitigation and recovery.

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