The Community Engagement and Education component plays a key role in building a collective culture of fire resilience in WUI communities. The objective is to empower citizens to understand, adapt and act on the risk of wildfires, integrating their local experience and knowledge in the development of civil protection tools and strategies. FIREPRIME understands that community preparedness cannot be imposed, but must be co-designed with the affected communities, taking into consideration their social, territorial and cultural diversity.
To this end, it is important to promote participatory processes to identify local vulnerabilities and build collective capacity for response and adaptation; create and implement educational activities to facilitate informed decision-making and community self-organisation; and foster risk and resilience literacy, both in schools and in neighbourhood environments.
Here you’ll find resources implemented and tested along the FIREPRIME project, you can use and adapt to your community.
Resources
Preparedness Days:
A Practical Guide to Wildfire Preparedness
to address wildfire risk. They create opportunities for residents, public authorities, emergency services and local organisations to come together and share information, experiences and concerns related to wildfire risk. Learn here how to make the most of a Preparedness Day.
defensible space, or carry out other mitigation measures?
This tool help communities address these questions together through dialogue, imagination, and practical planning.
your home.
