Although we often focus on community resilience only in the midst of emergencies, it is important to develop or strengthen it also during or after more stable periods to better prepare for potential future crises and to heal from those that have passed.

The community and its members must be the first to detect if an unusual event has or is occurring in their surroundings. It is therefore appropriate to train, empower and equip them to identify these threats to help them prevent and respond to them. This will be an essential pillar of a common social well-being free from harm and adversity.

It is in this perspective that the World Future Active Organisation aims to further adapt to the local and regional context comprehensive approaches to resilience programming, including those that address epidemic shocks. These approaches integrate resilience at multiple scales and sectors.

They are therefore more delocalized and adaptable on the ground with dimensions that assess the limited capacity of populations to adopt positive coping strategies.

Our response actions are in line with our commitment to support communities, including through the training of volunteers for the humanitarian cause.

WORLD FUTURE ACTIVE will therefore further integrate a community resilience approach, to explicitly address

-The social context that drives the impact and mitigation of local vulnerabilities,

-Building on existing community capacity and local knowledge,

-Helping the community to cope with the complexity inherent in epidemic shocks.

-Training volunteers in risk and disaster management within their communities.