Exective Summary: Disaster Resistant Communities Intiative: Evaluation Of The Pilot Phase Year 2
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2000
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This report summarizes findings from the second year of an ongoing Disaster Research
Center study focusing on the implementation of Project Impact in the seven communities that
were chosen a pilot sites for the initiative. In 1999, approximately one year after its initial visits to
the seven pilot communities, DRC conducted telephone interviews with key PI personnel, visited
each community to gain a better understanding of activities that were being undertaken in the
seven PI sites, and collected documentary materials that could help shed light on progress that
was being made in carrying out PI plans. This second-year evaluation sought data on the
following topics:
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Project Impact, Mitigation Activities, Risk Assessment, Partnership-Building