Components of a PCR process
Share
information
• community information meeting
• explain the programme or project
• explain the options available to the community
Survey and
assess
• site visit by project team and community members to:
o assess damage to houses, infrastructure and livelihoods
o take stock of available resources
o identify needs and capacities with the community
Raise
awareness
• discuss the causes of the disaster
• identify the vulnerabilities of people and structures
• risk mapping
Mobilise
community
• mobilise the community for participatory planning
• undertake community action planning with them and other stakeholders
• identify vulnerable families that will require additional support
• prioritise action in line with available resources
Design
houses
• design appropriate new houses with community members
• define construction technology options with them
• pay attention to building back safer and to local sustainability
Support
construction
• define capacity building needs with the community
• prepare for and conduct training of households and local builders
• organise the supply and production of building material
• discuss and organise funding mechanisms
Monitor and
evaluate
• monitor progress with households and communities
• review results periodically
• revise plans, where needed, in agreement with the community
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PCR can learn a lot. There are many examples of
projects where communities took a central role in
planning and implementing improvements to their
housing and infrastructure, and developed effective
partnerships with local authorities and NGOs
to achieve those. A particularly innovative early
example of this is the Million Houses Programme in
Sri Lanka in the 1980s.More detailed information
on this is provided in PCR Tool no.5: Learning from
the Housing Sector. What PCR will have to add to
such urban housing approaches is a strong element
of vulnerability reduction. There are some examples
of integrated urban development projects which
aimed to improve people’s financial as well as
physical assets, which provide useful lessons. There
are fewer, however, that have incorporated making
housing more disaster-resistant.
Applications
PCR is a new concept, so there are few
examples yet where it has been fully applied
and documented. The following examples from
post-disaster reconstruction or regular housing
development have been selected because they
are relevant to specific aspects of PCR; see the
Resources section for full references to them.
Further examples and cases are discussed in other
tools in this toolkit.
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