This manual is intended to provide methodological and practical guidance to ACF field workers on how to implement Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Assessment (PCVA) so as to design and initiate stand-alone or mainstreamed DRM actions at the community level. Its variety of tools and guiding questions for disaster risk analysis facilitate a participatory process through collaborative learning. It is designed to stimulate dialogue and information sharing between ACF’s field workers, community members and local partners. The guiding questions serve to examine the factors of risk and vulnerability at multiple levels so that risk reduction measures and the outcomes of the PCVA are integrated into the development or recovery process of the community.
