Cambodia: Cambodia Community-Based Flood Mitigation and Preparedness Module 3 (Version 1) Red Cross Volunteers' Training Manual Community Mobilization for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Course Outline and Objectives Day 1 Community Organizing Review of the 5-day module (Overview on Disaster, Preparedness and Mitigation) Concept of CB, CBDP and CBFMP Introduction to the basic concept of community organizing Overview of the training The purpose Day 2 Leadership Concept of leadership Definition Tasks Qualifications Different types of leadership Different approaches Its appropriateness Roles and Responsibilities in CBDP and CBFMP Day 3 Benefit Distribution Benefit/beneficiary How to distribute fairly (Equally?) Day 4 Meetings Different types of meetings Purpose of the meeting Day 5 Meeting (Cont'd) Chairing the meeting Role of the chairperson Meeting dynamic Establishment of Community Disaster Management Committee, CADMIC (Role play) Day 6 Community Organizing The process of community organization Community Problem solving Process Delegation of work Day 7 Community Organizing (Cont'd) Field work directly in the community Applying community organizing principles to disaster situations Day 8 Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Planning Field work (A village meeting for problem identification) Problem (Generate, identify and prioritize hazard.) Strategy (Generate, identify and prioritize solution contribute-able and sharable by the community empowerment and supported by outsiders) Factor to implement the solution (Organization and establishment of CDMC) Day 9 Solution Implementation Planning Planning (by participatory of CDMC and villagers) Community capacity and resources Priority-needed resources beyond community's capacity Budget Planning Day 10 Review and Summary Linking the concepts from the workshop to the history of Red Cross Summary and feedback Course evaluation Training Objective This manual is designed to train Red Cross Volunteers in the village who have a basic understanding about disasters to be able to organize villagers to take steps to prevent and mitigate disasters which could hit their village. This training complements other training modules, which emphasize the nature of disaster, their causes and effects, and some methods for diverting and preventing damage. This module focuses on how to mobilize villagers to participate in the process of community organization needed to prevent the effects of disaster and is intended to provide basic practical skills in these areas. At the end of this training the participants will be able to help their follow villagers to organize themselves; make plans for disaster mitigation and prevention; and, be able to write their fellow villagers to organize proposal packages to get support from local or international organizations for needed human resources, supplies and technical assistance.