Presentation on Community based Early Warning System &CBDRM

What is CMDRM?

Community-Managed Disaster Risk Management (CMDRM): is a process of disaster risk management in which communities are actively engaged in the identification, analysis response, monitoring and evaluation of disaster risks in order to reduce their vulnerabilities and enhance their capacities.

How is CBDRM Implemented?

I. Interactive Participation: People participated in joint analysis, development of action plans and formation or strengthening of local groups or institutions.

II. Needs assessment used visual tools (pictorials to demonstrate various PRA techniques and community analysed own situation).

III. Community Action plans owned & drew on own resources such as labour. External support seen as complimenting own effort and gap filing.

IV. Formation /strengthening of community groups is the most important product of the process.

Procedures followed during CAP facilitation

• Before facilitating CAP the target communities were informed about the objective of CMDRM where adequate time is given to awareness creation .

• Simple method of one hazard approach used to let the community internalize and perfect the entire CMDRM facilitation process.

Community members participated to enhance ownership

Having effective participants makes it easier for the generated action plan to be validated subsequently by the rest of the community members.

What was done to avoid risk of Predetermining role of influential leaders?

Time taken to clearly identify them Thorough individual survivability analysis

employed

Maximum efforts made to ensure that activities of the DRR plan are specific, responsibilities clearly spelt, TARGETS clearly indicated: .

Periodic updating process conducted at 6-12 months interval as CAP is not a one–off process.

Contingency planning involves anticipating a specific hazard based on specific events (Scenario-based) or known risks at local, national, regional or even global levels (e.g., earthquakes, floods or disease outbreaks)

Following the facilitation work to develop Contingency plans regular revision was employed.

Built in EWS which was regularly done by key informants .

Communities mobilized their resources as part of coping strategy before jumping in to request for intervention/external.

Community Organization

CMDRM leads the process of establishing community organizations, women cooperatives for alternative livelihoods and income generation institutions as part of the village DRR measures.

Empowerment of the Community organization includes support in resource allocation and capacity building

Community Organization

Community organization was at the center of the strategy.

The project had institutional support plans to local organizations in the community

Learning Process and Participatory M & E

The CMDRM had the mandate to coordinate all development and CMDRM interventions in the area (as their mandate should not be limited only to a specific DRR projects).

Exit Strategy

CMDRM is an Entry and Exit strategy as it evolves around Community Organization

CMDRM Measure is building capacity of community to improve Community Readiness.

EXIT IS THROUGH Community Organization AND NOT COMPLETION OF POND, RANGELAND RECLAMATION

Community Readiness

Strengthening the traditional water and rangeland management committees.

Strengthening the CMDRM committee. Ensuring the management and resolution of

resource based conflicts through availing support to peace committees and by facilitating regular dialogue meetings.

Formation and strengthening of community managed EWS.

Community Readiness

Improve coordination/efficiency among existing grassroots community organizations.

Create awareness among the communities on Drought management systems.

Enhance livestock market information and health services

evaluation findings

The evaluation showed that 34 of Community Action Plan (CAPs) in all the targeted communities in the project sites were effectively and efficiently implemented.

  On availability of pasture, 58% of

respondents reported an improvement on pasture availability compared to 18.8% during the 2008 baseline survey period

evaluation findings

52.75% of the target population acknowledged improved management of water, veterinary services and education leading to improved livelihoods.

64.6% of the target population received EWI with the community using the early warning information to enhance livestock marketing and plan for mobility