https://zcralliance.org/blogs/community-brigades-tested-during-mexico-floods/ Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://zcralliance.org/blogs/community-brigades-tested-during-mexico-floods/#comment-321 Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:23:13 +0000 https://floodresilience.net/?post_type=blog&p=14575#comment-321 In the Karnali river basins in Nepal, rural communities are facing rapid on-set flash floods during the monsoon season often leading to massive impacts to lives and assets. Therefore Early Warning Systems, improved disaster management coordination between communities and local and national governments, creation of emergency plans and implementation of alternative livelihoods are part of the interventions. In the Rimac basin in Peru, communities are improving their preparedness for the El Niño season by identifying evacuation routes and emergency plans, capacity building of brigades and supporting communities to engage with local governments on DRR planning.

]]> https://zcralliance.org/blogs/community-brigades-tested-during-mexico-floods/#comment-320 Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:49:03 +0000 https://floodresilience.net/?post_type=blog&p=14575#comment-320 16 December 2021 by Cale Johnstone, Mexican Red Cross This blog was originally published last month on the Flood Resilience Portal. Since 2014 the Mexican Red Cross MRC has worked to strengthen community resilience together with the IFRC as part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance. The Flood Resilience Program in Mexico PRAIM, for its initials in Spanish has focused on building capacities and reducing vulnerabilities in more than 20 flood-affected communities in the state of Tabasco.

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