Guidebook on prevention, preparedness and response in earthquakes with emphasis on pandemic circumstances with recommendations based on case studies and lessons learnt

The main goal of the L2BR project is to foster through a set of case studies, feasibility studies, guidebooks and other activities, intersectoral cooperation and provide useful toolbox for improvement of prevention, preparedness, and response to earthquakes in circumstances of pandemic crisis. Furthermore, the project aim is to strengthen cooperation of all significant actors and enable future joint actions.
The guidebook on prevention, preparedness, and response in earthquakes, with emphasis on pandemic circumstances, with recommendations based on case studies and lessons learned, was planned to comprise specific operating procedures on prevention, preparedness, and response in earthquakes with emphasis on pandemic circumstances with recommendations based on Case studies, i.e., lessons learnt from recent earthquakes in Tirana and Zagreb. Moreover, it was planned to suggest improvements of existing operating procedures with emphasis on actions during pandemic circumstances related to/similar to COVID-19. The guidebook is elaborated through desk research as well as in collaboration with COO1 and BENs2.
Proper and effective disaster and emergency management in all its segments i.e., prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, is of crucial importance in saving lives, improving community resilience, promoting disaster prevention, reduces poverty, improves health, reshapes communities, strengthens security, promotes stability, protects natural resources and strengthens social contracting and trust, according to the guidebook.
The Guidebook is based on suggested measures, coordination, and resource mapping in the main three segments of prevention, preparedness, and response accounting for the earthquake disaster in pandemic circumstances. Realisations of multi-hazard events are increasingly dangerous to communities as exposures permanently continue to change, it points out. Their combined effects can paralyse the mandated institutions and general public to properly react even in the countries with the most advanced disaster management systems, according to the guidelines.