This project aims to design and test a nationally suitable, generic awareness campaign that will address the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) risk, help people to identify risk exposures to fire and also teach them how to manage these risks.
LANDWORKS™ has been appointed by the South African Insurance Association to conduct a “pilot” awareness project in five communities to alert and sensitise people to the risk that wildfire poses to their lives, their communities and their properties, and to empower them to help reduce that risk.
This project aims to design and test a nationally suitable, generic awareness campaign that will address the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) risk, help people to identify risk exposures to fire and also teach them how to manage these risks
The project is currently being implemented by means of a series of strategic public “information sharing” meetings and a one-day training course, facilitated by senior members of the LANDWORKS™ team – who are experienced in the successful implementation of effective fire prevention methodologies and community engagement initiatives.
The campaign will share knowledge about the prevention of unwanted fire and demonstrate to communities in these five vulnerable areas how to identify risk and reduce risks, thereby minimising the possibility of fire from harming them, their families and destroying their property. It will also touch on how people can reduce financial risk by incorporating aspects of consumer financial education into the campaign.
The success of the campaign in the pilot project areas of Swellendam, Knysna, Kranskop, (Western Cape), Richmond (KZN) and Matatiele (Eastern Cape) will be measured by the communities’ being able to demonstrate that they are:
– more aware of the risk of unwanted fire
– feeling empowered to reduce the risk they face from unwanted fire
– aware as a community that they can work together to prevent losses from unwanted fire
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