SVAC Network: Volunteering increasing community resilience

Created in 2010, the Municipal Network of Servants, Volunteers and Friends of the Community aims to promote integration with government institutions and organized civil society. It favors and strengthens community participation in planned or adverse actions, in municipalities and today, in light of Federal Laws 12,608/2012 and 14,750/2023, with actions to reduce the risk of accidents and disasters and in crisis management. The Municipal Network of Servants, Volunteers and Friends of the Community has around 12,368 registered volunteers, including Civil Protection and Defense Centers and Non-Governmental Organizations, meeting one of the seven global goals of the Sendai Framework for Reducing the Risk of Disasters 2015-2030, that is, directing access to early warning systems for dangers and carrying out assessments on the risk of disasters to the people by 2030. Thus, the Network articulated and managed by the Municipal Coordination of Protection and Civil Defense, will be inducing the achievement of the proposed target. People, registered in the Municipal Network of Servants, Volunteers and Friends of the Community, will be able to actively participate in events such as projects, courses, training and seminars, promoted by the so-called Training Centers for Emergencies and Disasters, designed as a training tool, to prepare the population and increase their resilience in the face of accidents and disasters that arise, especially those characteristic of their regions. The methodology adopted for the creation and maintenance of groups of volunteers from the Network, at the Protection and Civil Defense Centers, will be through exploratory participation, where professionals from the broad area of ​​civil defense will participate and monitor the steps of knowledge construction qualified professional, as a result. Seeking, then, in the vision of the National Civil Protection and Defense Policy, to produce a resilient recovery action, with active participation of the strong and prepared community.