The original Framework for Community Safety and Resilience published in 2008 confirmed that the concepts identified were not new and did not demand new areas of work for the IFRC. Rather the Framework for Community Safety and Resilience suggested that community safety and resilience approaches provided National Societies with an opportunity to build on, enhance and adapt activities they had already been carrying out. This updated FCR reinforces that message.

This framework has the principle objective to: ‘Establish a foundation on which all IFRC programmes, projects, interventions and actions, across the contexts, which contribute to the strengthening of resilient communities can be created, developed and sustained’.

The FCR has gone through an extensive consultation process, both within the IFRC and externally. Examples of the consultation undertaken include: dedicated twoday workshops conducted with representatives of 64 National Societies in the four zones; 77 National Societies participated in community resilience workshops at the 2013 IFRC General Assembly; workshops at various internal fora (e.g., with the disaster preparedness and risk reduction group of Partner National Societies and the Stockholm health group); and feedback received from a number of external organizations and private sector partners. Suggestions and recommendations from all of these groups have informed the IFRC.

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• Organization: IFRC
• Pages: 24
• Year of publication: 2014
• Copyright: © IFRC, 2014
• Url: IFRC Framework for Community Resilience