Presentation of the practical guide "assessing local buildinf culture for resilience & development" online at the following address: https://craterre.hypotheses.org/999

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• A participatory approach for the assessment of local building cultures
and good practices related to habitat and risks in a given context.
• An assessment methodology helping to identify local practices with
high potential for responding efficiently and adequately to habitat
improvement and vulnerability reduction needs.
• A practical tool for planning, preparing and undertaking field assessments
providingbaselinedataforprojectsandactionsvalorizinglocalknowledge
and resources in disaster risk reduction and post-disaster contexts.

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Local populations should be the main
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as they hold the key to the sustainable
improvement of their own resilience
and living conditions.
This assessment provides practical
information for developing appropriate
technical solutions and for building up
an operational set of actions based
on context-specific references, local
resources and existing capacities.

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• to foster appropriate and sustainable transition to durable structures
• to promote long-term construction solutions and risk reduction measures
• to develop approaches, technical measures and capacity building for
responding to future crises
• to identify sustainable solutions for the improvement of existing coping
and construction practices

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• Sequence of activities carried out together with local communities
• Active participation of each group of stakeholders to learn but also to
understand how to engage in further action.
• Key actions - Observe, ask, listen, check - and questions - What? Why ?
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• Process led by local stakeholders and supported by a facilitation team
• Flexible methodology, activities and tools to be adapted to context
constraints and opportunities
• Complementarity with other tools (such as PASSA, VCA-vulnerability/
capacity assessment, PHAST-WATSAN, ...)

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• Local housing and settlements: patterns, organization and uses
• Available resources: materials, knowledge and know-how
• Production, maintenance and evolution in the construction sector
• Local practices and coping strategies for resilience
• Capacities, strengths and weaknesses of local project partners

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D�������-������:argumentsandperspectivesonthevalueoflocalbuilding
cultures for habitat and disaster risk reduction programmes
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Available for free download on
CRAterre website, dissemination section:
http://craterre.org