The first aid manual is one of the booklets in the series "Learning to manage disaster risks in my community", whose objective is to strengthen local capacities in the communities of the Jiquilisco Bay and Jaltepeque estuary hydrographic zone, to face and overcome different extreme events that generate disasters
with a focus on the inclusion of persons with disabilities and older adults.

Organization and functioning of the Community Civil Protection Commissions is the first topic of the series "Learning to manage disaster risks in my community", whose objective is to strengthen local capacities of communities to face and overcome different extreme events that generate disasters with a focus on the inclusion of persons with disabilities and older adults.

"Implementation and Administration of Inclusive Shelters" is the third topic of the series "Learning to manage disaster risks in my community", whose objective is to strengthen local capacities of communities to face and overcome different extreme events that generate disasters with a focus on the inclusion of persons with disabilities and older adults.

The Sphere Handbook is a set of universal standards aimed at improving the quality of humanitarian response in disaster or conflict situations and accountability to the affected population, in application of the principles of the Humanitarian Charter,
which is the ethical and moral basis for humanitarian assistance actions.

This handbook will help guide all members of the community to move from the flood risk area to meeting points or safe areas.

This guide contains basic aspects on the gender approach (first part), in a clear and understandable way, so that it can be useful to organizations of people with disabilities. In this context, it aims to guide organizations of people with disabilities with the establishment of instruments that allow for the improvement of gender equity and women's participation within the organizations' actions (second part).

«La inclusión es un estilo de interacción esencial para equipos y organizaciones eficaces.»

El enfoque inclusivo tiene como fin reducir los riesgos que afectan de manera desproporcionada a las poblaciones en situación de vulnerabilidad, particularmente a las personas con discapacidad quienes tienen mayores tasas de mortalidad, morbilidad y afectación en situaciones de desastres. Por todo esto, se debe trabajar por la inclusión de las personas con discapacidad y sus familiar en la gestión del riesgo de desastres y con mayor énfasis en la preparación para la respuesta a emergencias y desastres. Este manual ayudará a las personas a conocer recomendaciones básicas para la inclusión ante cualquier desastre que se pueda presentar.

This document gathers twelve experiences that were part of the products of the regional project, which allows the sharing of the process and the main lessons learned among the various actors, groups and individuals who were involved in each of the actions implemented by the project in the four countries. In each of the experiences, background information is identified, as well as a description of the experience, its impact, relevance, challenges for sustainability and the replication character that it may have for other actors in order to advance the strategic objectives of these sectors in inclusive risk management. In this way, this document and its systematized experiences are intended to influence or contribute to the continued motivation of exchange with other local, national and international actors interested in inclusion and the generation of change.

Under the Age and Disability Capacity Programme (ADCAP), led by HelpAge International, the Humanitarian Inclusion Standards for Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities (Spanish). A document that brings together nine key inclusion standards, from learning and resource management to identification and resilience.

In addition, the publication presents seven sector-specific standards, including nutrition, housing and education; each with key actions, guidance, tools and resources, and case studies illustrating how older people and people with disabilities have been included in humanitarian responses.

The use of the Humanitarian Inclusion Standards for Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities (Spanish) helps to identify and successfully reach those most at risk during a humanitarian crisis. The document was translated into Spanish by the ASB and can be downloaded here.

ASB, together with Johanniter International, produced a first draft report on the rapid health assessment in the Nhamatanda district of Sofala province in Mozambique, where Cyclone "Idai" recently struck.