The TST ranking tool as a community based tool represent all the community’s or group’s perspective on their own risks, rather than an outside perspective and assumptions.This ranking process is important to the planning and implementing of Community Bases Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) initiatives as it pin points the risks in all their variety, then prioritises them and brings possible processes to preventing and managing the risks and all under the communities own active participation. It is therefore a tool that within the CBDRM process brings about planning for risk reduction that are required while keeping it true to what the community or group sees as the Risks.
