Easy Volunteer Actions Handbook - Livelihoods Centre
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This Handbook describes 12 activities that Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) volunteers can easily carry out by themselves using resources already available in the community. The activities are designed to help communities to produce more food and income and to stay safe and healthy in areas where there are challenges such as droughts and floods. Each activity selected is particularly relevant for the local context in Southern and Eastern Africa, but most activities can be done anywhere in the world with some small adjustments.
All these activities have been designed to:
- Be easy to understand and carried out by RCRC volunteers
- Require little or no external resources, support, technology or funding
- Need no special skills, capacities or external advice.
Each activity has been carefully selected to increase the ability of people to withstand, or be ‘resilient to,’ the shocks, stresses and hazards related to changing climate. These activities do not represent a comprehensive list of all actions that build resilience, but those that have been proven to be effective by a wide range of organisations and RCRC volunteers and staff. The activities can benefit families and communities in a wide range of contexts and different locations.
The information is presented for Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers to guide their discussions and activities with communities. The handbook can be downloaded as Full Handbook or each section individually.
The Handbook is also available in French and Spanish.
Handbook and Sections:
Easy Volunteer Action Full Handbook
Section 3 - Shaded Seedling Nurseries
Section 4 - Homemade Liquid Fertilisers
Section 5 - Improving Farming Practices
Section 6 - Lead Farmers and Demostration Farming
Section 7 - Water Harvesting and Conservation
Section 8 - Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Section 9 - Nutrition Awareness
Section 10 - Reducing Fuel for Cooking
Section 11 - Early Warning and Early Action
Section 12 - Savings and Loan Associations
One page Flyers by sections:
Lead Farmers and Demostration Farming
Water Harvesting and Conservation
Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Early Warning and Early Action
Entry #03- Tepsokunthea Duong, Cambodia RC Youth.mp4 from Livelihoods Resource Centre on Vimeo.
- Livelihoods Objectives: Food Security and Nutrition, Productivity Enhancement, Natural resources protection, Gain and application of knowledge, Economic Security,
- Cross-cutting themes: associations, IGA, value chain improvement, climate change, rural, nutrition, EW/EA - DRR, Thematic guidelines,
- All: associations, IGA, value chain improvement, climate change, rural, nutrition, EW/EA - DRR, Thematic guidelines,
- Organization: British Red Cross / Livelihoods Resource Centre
- Year of publication: 2020