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Disaster Management

HFA 2 Consultations Update:Key Area 1 Report

Building Community Resilience 23-24 January 2014, Bangkok, Thailand

Asia Pacific ZoneJanuary 2014

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Countries: 12 expressed interest in contributing

Update – Summary of Contributions (1)

Responses received (7):AfghanistanBangladeshBhutanIndiaIndonesiaNepalVietnam

To be received (5):Lao PDRPakistanSri LankaThailandMongolia

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Stakeholder Groups: 13 expressed interest in contributing

Update – Summary of Contributions (2)

Responses received (8):Action Aid PakistanACF FranceDiDRRN (x2)IFRCNippon Foundation and Japan Disability ForumUNICEF EAPRO/ROSA CCCUNICEF EAPRO & Save the ChildrenQueensland University of Technology

To be received (6):Asia Pacific Adaptation NetworkChristian Aid, UKICIMODKnowledge Links India/HuairouRural Development Policy Institute), PakistanSave the Children, Japan

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General Overview of 4 Country Responses Received

Update – Summary of Contributions (3)

Countries Recommendations Case Study Indicators

Afghanistan General

Bangladesh HFA2 Specific: Concise general recommendations

Generic

Bhutan HFA2 Specific: Concise specific recommendations

Specific

India HFA2 Specific: Detailed specific recommendations

1 Detailed

Indonesia HFA2 Specific: Concise specific recommendations

2 Generic

Nepal HFA2 Specific: Concise specific recommendations

1

Vietnam HFA2 Specific: Detailed specific recommendations

1

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General Overview of 8 Stakeholder Responses Received

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Stakeholders Recommendations Case Study Indicators

Action Aid 1

ACF France Detailed general recommendations

(2)

DiDRRN General and concise thematic recommendations

2 Thematic

IFRC Concise thematic recommendations

2+

NF & JDF Concise thematic recommendations

2

UNICEF/Rosa General observations/recommendations

UNICEF/SVC General observations/recommendation

QUT Concise thematic recommendation

1

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General Overview of Case Studies

Update – Summary of Contributions (5)

Entity Theme Format

India Effective preparedness plans Template fully completed

Indonesia Community monitoring of recovery processes (x2) Template fully completed

Vietnam Scaling up CBDRM Template fully completed

Action Aid Building resilient communities through CBDRR Template fully completed

NF & JDF Role of persons with disabilities (x2) Template fully completed

ACF France Local Level Action (KA3)/Role of Women (KA4) Template fully completed

IFRC Use of legal instruments (x2);Building Community Resilience

Brief examplesGeneral case studies

DiDRRN Role of persons with disabilities (x2) General case studies

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Additional Project Details Shared:Nepal: Building urban community resilience; QUT: Engaging at-risk communities

7 Fully completed Case Studies: 2 others on Local Level Action (KA3) and The Role of Women (KA4)

These focus mainly on 2 underlying questions:• How to develop a long term and sustainable national strategy to enable community

resilience?• How can the role of people with disability and other vulnerable groups be enhanced

in resilience building?

Progress, general and thematic lessons learnt and recommendations can be extracted from these. However, there is little indication or elaboration of that results from these case studies contributing to HFA1 progress and the enabling role played by HFA1.

Some recommendations can be extracted from the other case studies provided, but these are limited.

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How to develop a long term and sustainable national strategy to enable community resilience?

• Re-focus centralized “top-down” systems of post-disaster relief to disaster prevention and preparedness approaches that are owned by communities (Vietnam).

• Integrate community-based DRR programmes into community-based disaster preparedness and mitigation plans into the development plans prepared by local government (India)

• Use a broad programme of action that consists of a mixture of structural and non-structural measures (e.g. preparedness training, Disaster Management planning exercises, awareness-raising, establishing Emergency Operation Centres and systems, facilitating technology transfer, etc) (India).

Sample Lessons Learnt from Case Studies

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How to develop a long term and sustainable national strategy to enable community resilience?

• Acknowledge the technical contribution that civil society actors can provide as partners (e.g. in the development of national programmes and for training support) and the complimentary roles played by the different actors and members of the community (Vietnam & India)

• Ensure that CBDRR plans are supported by allocations from the national budget (Vietnam).

• Sustain, complement and coordinate efforts by multiple stakeholder groups in sync with local risk context, governance systems, DM Plans, and other developmental initiatives (India)

• Active leadership from sub-national governance institutions (India); and

• Participation of communities (India)

Sample Lessons Learnt from Case Studies

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How can the role of people with disability and other vulnerable groups be enhanced in resilience building?

• Develop inclusive policies, programmes and actions through a whole-of-community approach (DiDRRN)

• Facilitation of partnerships for joint action (NF&JDF)

• Mandate the engagement of established youth groups in DRR activities within sub-national youth policies (India)

Additional Issues:• There is a need to understand the characteristics of urban community resilience

and build on this to address growing vulnerability within areas that are urbanizing (Nepal; Bhutan)

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Other Lessons Learnt

• The selection of vulnerable communities to scale-up community resilience programmes requires the development of quality baseline data (Vietnam)

• Shared understanding is developed through the facilitation of lessons learned amongst the multiple stakeholders through dialogue on key components that constitute good CBDRM, and access to high quality existing training materials and other resources (Vietnam & India).

• Partner with and use existing training facilities at the sub-national level to develop and conduct disaster management training modules for local actors (India).

Sample Lessons Learnt from Case Studies

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Accountability framework for community resilience building - Suggestion from India

Action

Actors accountable to take actions

Who are the actors accountable to?

Targets and indicators to measure progress

Methods to monitor and measure targets and indicators

1:Develop a monitoring tool to assess community resilience

Ministry of Home Affairs and NDMA/NIDM

Communities Indicator: Resilience Index; Guideline for data collection and analysisTarget: One National level Index and guideline; 4 State level indices and guidelines

Stakeholder consultation;Review and Field testing of Indices and Guidelines

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Accountability framework for community resilience building - Suggestion from India

Action

Actors accountable to take actions

Who are the actors accountable to?

Targets and indicators to measure progress

Methods to monitor and measure targets and indicators

2:Strengthen local level capacities

Training Institutes, Academic and Research Institutions, and professional associations

National and sub-national Governments

Indicators: Number of Training Modules, Database of Trainees and Resource persons, Number of Training Assessments done, Number of Training Institutes with trained human resources and budgetary allocationTarget:4 Training Modules; 2 Databases; 2 Training Needs Assessments; 2 Training Institutes strengthened

Peer review of Training Modules;Review of database;Government Orders issued for hiring of human resources and budgetary allocation

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WHAT: Suggestions for required specific actions, targets and indicators for issues to be considered in HFA2

• Plenty of suggestions for required specific actions (country and thematic specific)

• Some good suggestions for targets and indicators e.g. India. But limited.

WHO: Suggestions for specific stakeholder(s) who should implement the recommended actions for consideration in HFA2

• Some good suggestions for specific stakeholders e.g. NF & JDF. But limited.

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HOW: Suggestions on how 1) to address the issues proposed, drawing on the practical experience, 2) to obtain commitments of stakeholders for implementation, 3) to ensure accountabilities (i.e. what Monitoring and Review mechanisms), substantiated with examples and good practices.

• Some suggestions on how to address issues from case studies submitted

• Limited suggestions on how to obtain commitments of stakeholders

• Limited suggestions on how to ensure accountabilities, mechanisms to use. Few substantiated through the case studies

Contributions for HFA2 ‘Drill down”

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• Draft of Introduction Chapter submitted to ISDR• Draft of Lessons Learnt and Recommendations from selected case

studies submitted to ISDR• Compilation of recommendations relating to inclusion of persons

with disabilities

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1. What actions are required to build resilience of communities?

Underlying questions:a) What elements contribute to local level resilience and the resilience of

vulnerable groups such as children, elderly, people with disability?b) Which elements have been effective? And which ones need to be improved?c) What instruments are available to assist in building local level resilience and

resilience of vulnerable groups? (e.g. social protection, community engagement, CBDRM including disaster preparedness, post-disaster reconstruction)

d) How can the role of children, youth, women, people with disability and other vulnerable groups be enhanced in resilience building?How can local and indigenous knowledge be better integrated?

Key Issues to be addressed in the Research Paper

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Underlying questions:e) Who should be responsible for building resilience at the local level?• Who should they be accountable to?• What targets and indicators could be used to measure progress and underpin

accountability?• How can these targets and indicators be monitored and measured?

Examples of Practices: f) Examples of successful community resilience building? • How HFA1 has enabled/contributed to these achievements• Important factors in success • Challenges and how they were overcome• Which stakeholders were engaged and what mechanisms were used?

Key Issues to be addressed in the Research Paper – continued..

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