Participatory Assessment of Disaster Risk (PADR)
Malawi
The effectiveness of the PADR process has gone beyond expectations with some
partners in Malawi.
Emmanuel International reports that the response by
communities was greater than they had expected. In one village, more than 250
participants attended. Eagles reported that the involvement of non-beneficiaries in
the flood mitigation activities (designed as a result of the PADR process) has
increased understanding of the community as a whole. AGREDS also reports an
impact wider than their immediate target groups because of the sharing of
information among community members. EAM used the PADR process to discuss the
place of women in decision making within their target communities. They carried out
a short survey that showed 78% of participants would favour a boy child over a girl
child. This has provided a platform to begin to effect change on gender inequality.