Dipecho v aan pva training summary report
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Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) training is a core activity to capacitate project team in facilitating the disaster risk reduction initiatives in the field so as to ensure effective and efficient project implementation. PVA is a powerful and dynamic participatory tool applied for understanding and analyzing vulnerabilities of the communities. While opening the eyes of the disaster vulnerable communities to the root causes of their conditions, PVA also motivates the people to think in terms of reducing their vulnerabilities, make appropriate plans to achieve their mission of reducing vulnerabilities. This participatory process facilitates to enhance capacity of communities to mitigate hazards and risks. Action Aid DIPECHO Project has taken PVA as an ongoing process rather than one time event. While the product s of PVA is used by members of Reflect centres and DMC, it is also shared with local government for effective planning and targeted response during disasters. Training on Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) was organized to the project staffs of ActionAid partners during 17-21 August, 2009 in Sunsari and to partners and staff of Practical Action DIPECHO project during 25-29 August 2009 in Nepalgunj. Mr. Ram Prasad Bhattarai was the lead facilitator and Dhruba Thapalia was the co-facilitator for the second training event. Training Objective and methodologies Training Objective Understand basic principles of Participatory Vulnerability Analysis Understand community’s vulnerability context , causes and effects, and capacity to reduce the effects Enhance capacity to PVA field application in the community Facilitate community for making action plan to mitigate their vulnerabilities Training Methodology The training was facilitated through vanities of methodology including lecturer, brain storming, group discussions, case studies, field demonstration and practical application of PVA tools and role plays. A whole day was devoted for the field level application was done for a day long. Overall, training provided special attention to make participatory learning among the participants, community and facilitators. Surakshit Samudaya II Building Disaster Resilient Communities, Nepal Sept 2009, Kathmandu Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) Training Report ActionAid Nepal DIPECHO Project Publication Training on PVA for ActionAid and Practical Action DIPECHO Team PROJECT AT A GLANCE Project Area: Banke Sunsari Udayapur Partner NGOs: BEE Group UPCA Nepal NP Nepal Co-Action Nepal Beneficiaries: 13,854 people Budget: Euro 377,095 Start Date: 01 July 2009 Duration: 15 months For more details, contact: ActionAid Nepal Ph: 01-4436477 Fax: 01-4419718 “Anyone faced with the prospect of eating an elephant would be daunted. Too big! Where to start! But faced with manageable pieces the prospect appears more comprehensible. So with vulnerability – faced with such a complex concept there seems little prospect of addressing it. But if analysed as a participatory process, some specific solutions will become apparent for any particular context.” Roger Yates, Former Head of IECT, AAI (PVA - a step by step guide for field staff, AAI publication) PVA is a participatory methodological approach which allows for the creative, innovative and combined use of participatory tools like PRA and PLA. It is a multi stakeholder, multi step analytical and multi level engagement framework. The PVA is concerned with identifying and understanding the nature of threats and hazards that poor people face in their daily lives, their level of exposure to these threats and hazards, which constitute their vulnerabilities, the causes of these vulnerabilities, their dimensions as well as the impact of poverty and the denial of rights.
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Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) training is a core activity to capacitate project team in facilitating the disaster risk reduction initiatives in the field so as to ensure effective and efficient project implementation.
PVA is a powerful and dynamic participatory tool applied for understanding and analyzing vulnerabilities of the communities. While opening the eyes of the disaster vulnerable communities to the root causes of their conditions, PVA also motivates the people to think in terms of reducing their vulnerabilities, make appropriate plans to achieve their mission of reducing vulnerabilities.
This participatory process facilitates to enhance capacity of communities to mitigate hazards and risks. Action Aid DIPECHO Project has taken PVA as an ongoing process rather than one time event. While the product s of PVA is used by members of Reflect centres and DMC, it is also shared with local government for effective planning and targeted response during disasters.
Training on Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) was organized to the project staffs of ActionAid partners during 17-21 August, 2009 in Sunsari and to partners and staff of Practical Action DIPECHO project during 25-29 August 2009 in Nepalgunj. Mr. Ram Prasad Bhattarai was the lead facilitator and Dhruba Thapalia was the co-facilitator for the second training event.
Training Objective and methodologies
Training Objective
Understand basic principles of Participatory Vulnerability Analysis
Understand community’s vulnerability context , causes and effects, and capacity to reduce the effects
Enhance capacity to PVA field application in the community
Facilitate community for making action plan to mitigate their vulnerabilities
Training Methodology
The training was facilitated through vanities of methodology including lecturer, brain storming, group discussions, case studies, field demonstration and practical application of PVA tools and role plays. A whole day was devoted for the field level application was done for a day long.
Overall, training provided special attention to make participatory learning among the participants, community and facilitators.
Surakshit Samudaya II
Building Disaster Resilient Communities, Nepal
Sept 2009, Kathmandu
Participatory Vulnerability Analysis
(PVA) Training Report ActionAid Nepal DIPECHO Project Publication
Training on PVA for ActionAid and Practical Action DIPECHO Team PROJECT AT A GLANCE
Project Area: Banke
Sunsari Udayapur
Partner NGOs:
BEE Group UPCA Nepal
NP Nepal Co-Action Nepal
Beneficiaries: 13,854 people
Budget:
Euro 377,095
Start Date: 01 July 2009
Duration: 15 months
For more details, contact:
ActionAid Nepal Ph: 01-4436477 Fax: 01-4419718
“Anyone faced with the prospect of eating an elephant would be daunted. Too big! Where to start! But faced with manageable pieces the prospect appears more comprehensible. So with vulnerability – faced with such a complex concept there seems little prospect of addressing it. But if analysed as a participatory process, some specific solutions will become apparent for any particular context.” Roger Yates, Former Head of IECT, AAI (PVA - a step by step guide for field staff, AAI publication)
PVA is a participatory methodological approach which allows for the creative, innovative and combined use of participatory tools like PRA and PLA. It is a multi stakeholder, multi step
analytical and multi level engagement framework. The PVA is concerned with identifying and understanding the nature of threats and hazards that poor people face in their daily lives, their level of exposure to these threats and hazards, which constitute their vulnerabilities, the causes of these vulnerabilities, their dimensions as well as the impact of poverty and the denial of rights.
Surakshit Samudaya II: Building Disaster Resilient Communities, Nepal
Five days long training initiated with introduction of participants, training objectives and participants expectation collection. The daily review and evaluation was carried out throughout training period. In the first day, topics covered were understanding o f disaster terminologies, vulnerability, vulnerability and right based approach, climate change, poverty vulnerability and power relations. Second and third day were devoted in PVA process, application of PVA, and things to remember while doing PVA. The main tools discussed for PVA were vulnerability, hazard , social and resource mapping, focus group
Training procedure and outcome
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Participants
discussion, semi-structured interviews, time line, trends analysis, seasonal semi-structured interviews, seasonal calendar, livelihood analysis, venn diagram, problem tree, and cause and effect analysis. The fourth day was devoted on practical works on PVA field application in project areas dividing four groups. In the last day, formats for screening PWD was oriented.; also the presentation and feedback on field experience was done. The five days training ended with final evaluation. In overall, participants were found satisfied on the contents, training methodology and delivery and opined that the training achieved its objectives.
PVA TRAINING FOR ACTIONAID DIPECHO PROJECT TEAM Mr. Dillu Ram Ghimire, BEE Ms. Krishna Raut, NP Mr. Bidhyananda Meheta, UPCA
Mr. Ramnibas Yadav, BEE Ms. Nirmala Budhathoki, NP Ms. Anita Gupta, UPCA
Mr. Makbul Ahmad Mukeri, BEE Ms. Sarita K. Chaudhari, NP Mr. Alam Miya, UPCA
Ms. Ajita Godiya, BEE Ms. Manmaya Niraula, UPCA Ms. Radha K. Urau, UPCA
Ms. Ram Kumari Harijan, BEE Mr. Shivahari Khatiwada, UPCA Ms. Ranjana Yadav, UPCA
Ms. Shanti Devi Mourya, BEE Mr. Devnarayan Sharma, UPCA Ms. Parbati Limbu, UPCA
Ms. Hasina Bano Mukeri, BEE Ms. Rita Chaudhari, UPCA Mr. Yash Prasad Subba
Mr. Binod Godiya, BEE Ms. Kamali Chaudhari, UPCA Ms. Khadga K. Magar, UPCA
Mr. Arjun Kumar Katuwal, NP Mr. Khyam Bdr. Dhahal, UPCA Ms. Pratima Shrestha, AAN
PVA TRAINING FOR PRACTICAL ACTION DIPECHO TEAM
Mr. Pankaj Koirala, SAHAMATI Ms. Sunita Km. Yadav, CSDR Ms. Anita Chaurdhary, RKJS
Mr. Bishal Bidari, SAHAMATI Mr. Vinaya Raj Tripathi, CSDR Ms. Chhalkumari Chau, RKJS
Mr. Mukti Adhikari, SAHAMATI Mr. Shiv Prasad, CSDR Mr. Bhesnarayan Tharu, RKJS
Ms. Bimala Upadhyaya, SAHAMATI Ms. Gouri Bohara, CSDR Mr. Ramkishore Tharu, RKJS
Mr. Atma Ram Tiwari, SAHAMATI Ms. Krishna KC, CSDR Mr. Subhas Chand, RKJS
Mr. Loknarayan Pokharel, CSDR Mr. Sagar Gautam, RKJS Mr. Anup Gopal Phaiju, PA
Mr. Jameel Ahmed Khan, CSDR Ms. Pratima Gaire, RKJS Mr. Debnarayan Bej, PA
Mr. Israt Ali, CSDR Mr. Hiralal Tharu, RKJS Mr. Shyam Jnavaly, AAN
ActionAid and Practical Action in Nepal has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding on strategic partnership and collaboration in the DIPECHO V project, wherein Practical Action will provide technical and material support to establish community based early warning systems in AA project areas while AA will extend technical and resource support towards providing community mobilization and empowerment techniques through Participatory Vulnerability Analysis. This report covers the PVA training provided by AAN to Practical Action team to build their understanding on PVA process and tools.
