Nine months after the disaster, the

Nine months after the disaster, there was another
landslide with the same characteristics as that of
August 2002. The change in the communities’ ability
to respond was very clear from the way people reacted,
their readiness to follow the directions of Red
Cross staff and other institutions on site, and the
greater unity and desire to work as a single team.
Institutional coordination was much more effective,since all the participants in the control room knew
one another, helping decision-taking.