Human and animal health and wellbeing are linked and interdependent in many complex and varied ways. With our vision for a future rich in wildlife, Zoos Victoria achieved the status of the world’s first carbon neutral zoo in 2011. We see our commitment to achieving the SDGs and our role in addressing the systemic disaster and climate risks to wildlife and our natural environment as critical to preserve species and life on our planet.
The City of Sendai sustained serious damage from the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster, which occurred on March 11, 2011. A lesson learned from the disaster was that the power of nature is uncontrollable. Therefore, the City of Sendai are pursuing efforts in human capacity building that supports community disaster management that local governments and communities can engage in as DRR. This presentation introduces a part of these actions. It is hoped that these actions are able to help in many places and enable communities to engage in DRR to develop and enhance their overall resilience.
UNOSAT presents on the use of satellite imagery for improved disaster risk reduction at the local and regional level. This presentation focuses on the use of practical tools as well as capacity development at the national level. Examples of such tools include AI derived flood monitoring and decision support systems for relocating coastal communities exposed to climate change.
CDP works on community-based disaster risk reduction and management (CBDRRM) and climate change adaptation (CCA). An important aspect of strengthening the resilience of local communities through capacity-development programs and projects was the MHPSS. The service targets populations affected by disasters as well as healthcare workers and carers who support them. Its provision is anchored on the expressed need for MHPSS, particularly in times of crisis and emergencies with the COVID-19 pandemic still in the backdrop. While MHPSS has been primarily focused on the response and recovery phases of emergencies and shifting paradigms in the field of MHPSS, it now includes preparedness and prevention.
In Indonesia, a 2016 flash flood occurred in Cimanuk Watershed, Garut District, resulting in more than 2,525 people being displaced. Research shows how relocation affects community resilience in the ten relocation sites in Garut, Indonesia, by assessing the risk perception. This research proposed Urban Living Labs (ULL) as an innovative approach to address the gap and contribute to long-term sustainability by actively co-constructing durable solutions for the displacement issue. This ULL is expected to mainstream the measures to establish a durable solution to the displacement issue.
Fly for Humanity is a youth initiative that optimizes the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or Drones for the sake of humanity. They consider disaster risk reduction, emergency response, and rehabilitation. This initiative is a collaboration between Sky Volunteer (Synersia Foundation), U-INSPIRE Indonesia, and other stakeholders from the Pentahelix network. Fly for Humanity has flown all over Indonesia since 2018 and is currently scaling up.
The COVID pandemic has strongly affected people with disability across the entire world, as well as reinforcing barriers and stigmatization. However, it has also opened dialogue about new inclusive processes to ensure the protection and participation of persons with disabilities and open advocacy spaces through the increased use of virtual modalities.
The goal of the GIRDD-LAC Network is to promote the meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in all DRM processes, from joint risk analysis, planning, implementation and evaluation processes and to showcase initiatives from Latin America. In this session, the GIRDDD-LAC Network wants to illustrate the slogan "Nothing about us without us" showcasing several initiatives that were developed by the Network and its members to promote the full participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in disaster risk management decision-making processes.
Through its researches on the characteristics of resilient communities, the indicators contributing to them and the available measurement methodologies, IFRC has recently developed the “Community Resilience Measurement Dashboard” (CRMD), a practical tool to help measure community resilience.
The CRMD helps us measure community resilience by using the three tools: 1) Resilience Star (a tool to measure community resilience through discussion by a group of people, based on the data collected through the Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (EVCA) and other available community assessment tools); 2) Resilience Scan (a tool to measure community resilience through key informant interviews with local experts and review of secondary information); 3) Resilience Radar (a tool to assess and illustrate the resilience level of one or several communities through a standard survey).
The CRMD measures resilience by using relevant indicators per each of the 11 resilience dimensions - disaster risk management, health, water and sanitation, shelter, food and nutrition security, social cohesion, inclusion, economic opportunities, infrastructure and services, natural resource management and connectedness.
The CRMD allows users to generate their own measurement tools as per their needs, collect and analyze the data, and show the levels of community resilience through spider webs. Users can track and monitor the progress and effectiveness of resilience programs overtime through the base-line, mid-line and end-line resilience measurements, share and compare these results and modify their programs as needed. The CRMD has been tested in communities supported by RCRC National Societies and received positive feedback from its users. The proposed session contributes to the Priority 1 of the SFDRR and is linked to the GPDRR 2022’s cross-cutting theme of “accelerating and integrating disaster risk management to sustainable development and climate action”. The session will demonstrate the added value of the CRMD and present how to use it.
Choe is a Coordinator for DRR and Resilience Tools and Approaches of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. He has over 30 years’ experience of working for the RCRC movement. He worked for the Red Cross Society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a Deputy Secretary General and for the IFRC country offices in Georgia, Armenia, Iran and Myanmar as DRR coordinator, Programme Coordinator, Recovery Coordinator and Head of Delegation. Since 2011 he has worked at the IFRC Secretariat as a focal person for DRR and resilience. The areas of his expertise include disaster and crisis management, DRR, community resilience and organizational development. He holds a master’s degree in international relations and a bachelor’s degree in Asian History.
CARI! is a research & ICT-based start-up providing end-to-end disaster-related knowledge management products & services in Indonesia and ASEAN region. In-house technologies developed by CARI! produced a search engine that curates and geo-tags disaster-related scientific publications, sourced from various global repositories. As a social venture, the search engine of CARI! is free to use by everyone. Leveraging its wealthy data & knowledge base, CARI! provides tailor-made resilience intelligence, ICT & system integration solutions, capacity building, and strategic planning.
This presentation elaborates on effective national response mechanisms in Cambodia which aim to reduce the impacts and damage caused by natural disasters, particularly flooding. Additionally, the national strategies focus on capacity building for vulnerable communities as well as the use of technologies and information sharing to prepare and update these communities of disaster events.
