Purpose
In this activity, you will develop a draft report and summary of the information compiled in this step to share with your technical working group, leadership, and the broader community.
Why?
Good planning requires good communication. Compiling your vulnerability and risk results into a format that can be shared and effectively communicated to the public is essential to helping you reach your resilience goals.
When?
This activity can take 4-6 weeks to complete. You can likely shorten this timeframe by planning early how you will summarize your findings and conduct this activity in parallel with the previous activities.
Tips
For additional tips on conducting an effective Rapid Needs Assessment, Initial Damage Assessment (IDA), Joint Preliminary Damage Assessment (Joint PDA), and Recovery Assessment see the Additional Guidance section.
How does my community do this?
- Prepare a draft report for review. The format of the specific products you develop will vary depending upon the scope of your vulnerability analysis and decisions made by your project team; it can also depend on the particular characteristics and needs of your community. This information is often summarized in a report.
- Disseminate and review with the core project team, leaders, and community partners. Incorporate feedback from internal team members and collaborators and finalize your assessment. To view examples of vulnerability assessments, access the US Climate Resilience Toolkit.
- Share for public comment. Consider sharing the vulnerability assessment report broadly. Receiving community feedback, and making adjustments as necessary can not only strengthen the report but help solidify the acceptance of the results and build support for actions to enhance resilience.
- Finalize your vulnerability assessment and share widely. Several standard approaches for sharing findings include:
- Compiling an official, detailed report of findings.
- Creating a short, 2-5 page executive summary-style document meant for high level conversations and broader dissemination.
- Working with local reporters and community members to share reports and results.
- Creating webinars, educational videos, and other multimedia approaches to presenting vulnerability assessment findings.
- Disseminating information through traditional and social media platforms.
- Sharing copies of the assessment at public events.
Great job!
You have completed step 3.