Who benefits from the Toolkit?

The CARISMAND Toolkit aims at raising general cultural awareness in disaster management.

Recommendations guides disaster managers to successfully include cultural factors in their everyday practice and standard operating procedure (SOPs). Then, they should be able to use these tools to lead, for instance, a cultural audit in their respective institution.

Policy makers are able to use both the Cultural map and specific recommendations to better understand how they can include cultural factors in disaster related policy, for all types of hazards and during all phases of the disaster cycle.

Finally, the different tools also provide detailed information for citizens on how they can use their individual and communal strengths for empowerment. They can find in the CARISMAND Toolkit information on how to better prepare themselves in relation to their personal cultural background, how to interact and cope with authorities and disaster managers, but also how to take actions themselves during the response and recovery phases.

The information provided in the Recommendations Section of the Toolkit is organized around the three main categories of beneficiaries; thus, policy makers can easily search for recommendations suitable to their needs if they:

Use the pre-defined search ‘Recommendations for Policy Makers’ – it shows all recommendation categories by the CARISMAND team as useful for policy makers;

Tailor their search with respect to their current interest by using the Filter menu on the left side of the screen.

Policy makers can also follow the links to cultural factors or specific Cultural Map entries (or directly use the Cultural Map; for more information please check ‘What is the CARISMAND Cultural Map?’ or ‘What is the functionality of the Cultural Map?’) to better understand how they can include cultural factors in disaster related policies, for all types of hazards and during all phases of the disaster cycle.

The information provided in the Recommendations Section of the Toolkit is organized around the three main categories of beneficiaries; thus, disaster practitioners can easily search for recommendations suitable to their needs if they:

Use the pre-defined search ‘Recommendations for Disaster Managers’ – it shows all recommendation categories by the CARISMAND team as useful for disaster practitioners;

Tailor their search with respect to their current interest by using the Filter menu on the left side of the screen.

Disaster practitioners can also follow the links to cultural factors or specific Cultural Map entries (or directly use the Cultural Map; for more information please check ‘What is the CARISMAND Cultural Map?’ or ‘What is the functionality of the Cultural Map?’) to successfully include cultural factors in their everyday practice and standard operating procedure (SOPs). Then, they should be able to use these tools to lead, for instance, a cultural audit in their respective institution.

The information provided in the Recommendations Section of the Toolkit is organized around the three main categories of beneficiaries; thus, citizens can easily search for recommendations suitable to their needs if they:

Use the pre-defined search ‘Recommendations for Citizens’ – it shows all recommendation categories by the CARISMAND team as useful for the general public;

Tailor their search with respect to their current interest by using the Filter menu on the left side of the screen.

CARISMAND Toolkit provides information on how citizens can better prepare themselves in relation to their personal cultural background, how to interact and cope with authorities and disaster managers, but also how to take actions themselves during the response and recovery phases.

Citizens can also follow the links to cultural factors or specific Cultural Map entries (or directly use the Cultural Map; for more information please check ‘What is the CARISMAND Cultural Map?' or ‘What is the functionality of the Cultural Map?’) to further explore how they can use their individual and communal strengths for empowerment.