ProVentium Consortium and the Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme, University of Cape Town, organised a three-day workshop on community risk assessment, which sought to strengthen capacity and build awareness and information exchange among academics and practitioners active in the field of participatory disaster risk assessment (PDRA).2 This paper is an output from that meeting, and is part of ongoing initiatives to raise awareness of and debate within the community of practitioners engaged in PDRA. It is beyond the scope of this paper to attempt a definitive review of participatory methods employed in disaster risk assessment.3 Instead, it identifies the key challenges that must be addressed if par-ticipatory approaches are to fulfil their potential for integrating the views of multiple stakeholders into disaster risk reduction and contribute to the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction into development planning.

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