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.
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.
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.
This speech will look at some of the benefits of working in partnership across the Pacific to better deliver community-driven DRR and preparedness programming. The Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) is a partnership between the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and six Australian NGOs. Disaster READY is a disaster preparedness and resilience program implemented by AHP partners and their local networks in Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste. On behalf of Disaster READY and its partners, Josefa Lalabalavu, Plan International’s Pacific DRM Manager, reflects on some of the successes and challenges of the past four years. He discusses how a strengthened partnership between humanitarian practitioners better supports locally-led responses, which ultimately gives vulnerable communities the tools they need to prepare for and mitigate against disaster.
Framed in the COVID-19 context, this presentation will provide information on how communities can plan for economic recovery after a disaster through increased focus on disaster financial literacy. The presentation will introduce lessons learned from recent disasters and will provide an overview of currently available resources and tools for disaster planning, opportunities to develop stronger partnerships between community actors, and best practices for utilizing available resources. By the end of the presentation, participants will be able to identify key elements of financial literacy, including critical components of pre-disaster planning, recognize ways to coordinate intermediate and long-term plans among community partners who can support financial recovery, identify elements of a personal and organizational economic recovery plan that incorporates resources from public, private, and volunteer agencies in their communities.
Josh DeVincenzo is a Research Associate II, Sr. Instructional Designer, and Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness. His focus is on developing learning experiences associated with training projects that navigate disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience. At NCDP, he has developed national scale instructor-led and web-based curricula regarding financial literacy, economic impact analysis, and community partnerships. Josh hopes to create accessible and quality educational programming that benefits the common good at scale, particularly around themes of climate change. Josh has also developed and taught courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Teachers College of Columbia University, the Columbia University Earth Institute Professional Learning Programs, and the School of Professional Studies. Josh is currently an adjunct lecturer at Columbia Climate School’s graduate program on Climate & Society. He holds a master’s degree in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and is currently a doctoral candidate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on climate pedagogy has been published in the Journal of International Affairs, State of Planet and the Hill.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) works with local communities and disaster management agencies to map and understand risk by developing comprehensive data sets on buildings, roads, and key lifeline infrastructure data. All disasters begin and end locally. As citizens, we each have valuable, local knowledge of the places we live and the facilities and infrastructure that exists. By capturing and sharing this knowledge on the map, citizens can not only make a meaningful difference in disaster risk reduction and management but become more aware of risks and more resilient in the process.
PhilAWARE and InAWARE are two projects in the Asia-Pacific region that leveraged the knowledge of local citizens to map local infrastructure on OpenStreetMap so that the data can provide critical information to improve risk assessment, early warning, and disaster-management decision making. This intervention will showcase these projects and their impacts in order to inspire new DRR actors to integrate geospatial tools for early warning and early action.
