The project aimed to strengthen community capacity to respond to rapid and slow onset climate hazards through Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) initiatives in at least 70 villages in Myanmar’s dry zone.

Key activities included: Selection of project villages; assessment of existing DRM arrangements; hazard, vulnerability and resource mapping; development and integration of the System for Multi-Hazard Potential Impact Assessment and Emergency Response Tracking (SMART) decision support system with the Disaster Alert Notification application by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement; establishment of Climate Risk Information Sub-Committees (CRIS) in the 5 project townships and CBDRM committees in the 70 project villages; training of CRIS and agency representatives from pilot townships and villages on forecast translation, risk communication and CBDRR; village level DRR planning and plan presentation to Township Disaster Management Committee and advocacy for its implementation; exercises to test information flow from national DMH and National Disaster Preparedness Central Committee to division/ district/ township Disaster Preparedness Committees, to CBDRM committees, and on to villagers; quarterly community meetings to review responses to forecasts; refresher trainings at township/ village levels