The Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) is a process designed to accompany communities to be more resilient through the identification and assessment of their priority needs. The VCA provides a toolkit for community-lead assessments and solution finding processes that integrate information on existing risks, vulnerabilities and capacities and form the basis for successful community-based programming.

The first VCA guide was created in 1999 at the request of National Societies, and it supports the IFRC’s core mandate to serve the most vulnerable. It was endorsed in 1999 by the General Assembly. From 2005 to 2008, four VCA guides were developed to support National Societies’ work with communities. In 2011, a global review of the VCA lead to the development of a guide on how to integrate climate change and urban risk.

Available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

• Organization: IFRC
• Pages: 116
• Year of publication: 2008
• Copyright: © International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies