Capacity Building of Village Health Cadres in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Volcanic Disaster Prone Areas of Banyumas Regency

Objective : This study aims to evaluate the training to increase village health cadres capacity in areas which prone to volcanic eruptions in Banyumas regency. Methods : This research used quasi eksperiment non equivalent pre and post test group with control design . The population in this study is the village health volunteers in disaster-prone areas of Mount Slamet as many as 9 villages. The sample in thiswere 32 people for the intervention group and 32 controls. Results : The results of this research is the increased knowledge (p <0.05), and the skills of village health cadres (p<0.05) regarding disaster risk reduction. Conclusions : Disaster preparedness training for village health cadres could improve the knowledge and skills of cadres in disaster risk reduction. Village health cadres has endure difficult task and duty, so special health cadres in disaster risk reduction, called cadres of disaster preparedness (KASTANA) is needed.