Civil Society and Knowledge, Education and Training in Risk Reduction

Abstract

Disaster education can be a basis of disaster risk reduction measures, thus it is extremely important for all individuals. Each of Indigenous knowledge, disaster education at schools and training programmes for teachers, government officials, and various stakeholders has different characteristics and challenges. Indigenous knowledge has an origin of the culture and lifestyles, thus it could be transferred from generation to generation. Disaster education at schools could contribute to continuous learning and it makes children and students effective agents to share the knowledge with family and communities. Trainings are effective when the capacity development opportunity that needs to be done in a short period of time in an audience-specific manner. What all types of education require are that it has to be a participatory-approach not depending on textbooks too much and that it needs the involvement and participation of various stakeholders.