The purpose of the Training Manual on Community Tsunami Risk Management is to be a guide with tools to transmit scientific information related to this type of natural phenomena and to build new knowledge from the dialogue of knowledge between the facilitating team, the communities and other people. representatives of various social sectors who frequent the coastal communities.
The approach is given from the exercise of human rights, the democratization of knowledge, humanistic and humanitarian principles. With this perspective, the strengths, needs and conditions that make people who live in a community vulnerable are considered, according to gender, social class, ethnicity, migratory status, physical and cognitive conditions.
