Project Impact

Disaster-Resistant Community Initiative:

Evaluation of the Pilot Phase

In 1997, the Federal

Emergency Management

Agency began the pilot stage

of Project Impact, a new

program designed to

encourage local communities

to step up their efforts to

contain disaster losses. The

goals of the program are to

mobilize community-level

organizations and resources to

reduce disaster-related

damage and disruption through

the adoption of new loss-

reduction strategies and to

help communities develop

ways of coping with disasters

when they do occur. Using

face-to-face and telephone

interviews and focus group

methodology, DRC has been

charting the implementation of

Project Impact in the seven

pilot communities. In the

current phase of this project,

DRC is collecting and

analyzing data on ten

additional Project Impact

communities.

Joanne Nigg is Principal

Investigator and Kathleen

Tierney is Co-Principal

Investigator on this project.

The DRC has completed

numerous reports and

presentations since initiating

this study:

2001 Focus Group Report:

Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Local Community Representatives Share Their Views: Year 3 Focus Group Final Project Report Tricia Wachtendorf and Kathleen J. Tierney. Disaster Research Center University of Delaware, July 2001.

Final Project Report #40:

Executive Summary: Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Evaluation of the Pilot Phase Year 1 Joanne M. Nigg, Jasmin K. Riad, Tricia Wachtendorf, Angela Tweedy and Lisa Reshaur, 1998. 891 kb

Final Project Report #41:

Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Evaluation of the Pilot Phase Year 2 (2000) Joanne M. Nigg, Jasmin K. Riad,Tricia Wachtendorf, and Kathleen J. Tierney 294 kb

Final Project Report #42:

Executive Summary: Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Evaluation of the Pilot Phase Year 2 (2000) Kathleen J. Tierney 87 kb

Final Project Report #43:

Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Focus Group Analysis (2000) Tricia Wachtendorf, Jasmin K. Riad, and Kathleen J. Tierney 358 kb

Final Project Report #47

Disaster Resistant Communities Initiative: Local Community Representatives Share Their Views: Year Three Focus Group Final Project Report Tricia Wachtendorf and Kathleen J. Tierney, 2001. 1.83 mb

Final Project Report #48

DISASTER RESISTANT COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE: ASSESSMENT OF TEN NON-PILOT COMMUNITIES Tricia Wachtendorf, Rory Connell, Brian Monahan, and Kathleen Tierney, 2002. 416 kb

Final Project Report #49

DISASTER RESISTANT COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE: ASSESSMENT OF THE PILOT PHASE-YEAR 3 Tricia Wachtendorf, Rory Connell, and Kathleen Tierney, with assistance from Kristy Kompanik. 2002. 416 kb

PowerPoint Presentation # 2:*

Projecty Impact : Progress And Program Issues --Selected FindingsFrom the Disaster Research Center's Project Impact Evaluation. Kathleen J. Tierney. Presented at the Project Impact Summit November 13, 2000

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