Improving Household Preparedness in Multi-Hazard Contexts

One of the four priorities for action in the UN’s global framework for reducing disaster losses (the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction) is enhancing disaster preparedness, including promoting actions at the household level. This project aims to strengthen resilience to multiple (interrelated) hazards by supporting the development, testing, and uptake of multi-hazard preparedness assessments for households in low-income contexts. Specific objectives include:

1. Understand what contributes to existing high levels of household preparedness.

2. Develop and test household-level multi-hazard preparedness tools (e.g., scorecards).

3. Support wide uptake of preparedness tools, through engagement in UN mechanisms.

With disasters disproportionately affecting the poorest in society and threatening progress towards shared global goals for sustainability, this project will focus on low-income contexts of low-income countries. We anticipate the outputs being relevant to other contexts.

This project is led by Dr Joel C. Gill (Cardiff University) together with Dr Faith Taylor (King’s College London). The team includes two dedicated research associates: Dr Molly Gilmour (Cardiff University) and Dr Peter McGowran (King’s College London).