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As part of ongoing efforts to promote community strengthening along Guatemala’s Pacific slope, a specialized workshop on Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management was held on March 13. The activity was led by ICC and had technical support from CONRED representatives, who contributed their institutional expertise in disaster risk reduction. The activity brought together 21 participants, including social outreach managers and coordinators from the Sustainability Department of the Guatemalan Sugar Producers Association (ASAZGUA).
The workshop aimed to provide technical, methodological, and social tools to enable participants to lead resilience-building processes in prioritized communities. The training placed particular emphasis on strengthening skills that encourage citizen participation and local organization, key elements for analyzing threats and vulnerabilities, as well as for developing risk maps, evacuation routes, and other community level preventive measures.
This activity is part of a pilot community intervention project promoted by ASAZGUA with technical support from ICC. Through a participatory approach, the project seeks to foster local capacities to anticipate, respond to, and recover from hazardous events, integrating evidence-based best practices aligned with national disaster risk management guidelines.
With guidance from CONRED, this partnership is being consolidated as a benchmark model of collaboration between the private sector and national protection systems. This joint effort contributes to more effective and sustainable disaster risk reduction in the project’s areas of influence, reinforcing institutional commitment to safety, resilience, and community well-being.
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