Background
Communities have critical knowledge, experience and capacities with regards to building resilience, and have developed innovative approaches to reducing the everyday risks they face. However, these community-based approaches are rarely scaled out nor systematically embedded within national policies and practice. This USAID/OFDA funded project will ensure community based disaster risk management (CBDRM) is institutionalised by identifying the enabling environment (political, financial and social) required, building the capacity of actors to work together to put in place these building blocks, and increasing the political commitment for scaling out CBDRM. By institutionalising CBDRM in country systems, the project will help governments achieve the priorities set out in their implementation plans and contribute towards ensuring that the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Agenda 2030 successfully build resilience at the community level.
Project partners
There are 9 project partners – 6 national and 3 regional, coordinated by the GNDR Secretariat. All the partners are GNDR members:
- SEEDS India – national (India)
- Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) – national (Philippines)
- Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) – regional (Thailand)
- Reseau MARP (R-MARP) – national (Burkina Faso)
- Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement (JVE)-Niger – national (Niger)
- Environment Development Action in the Third World (ENDA-TM) – regional (Senegal)
- Servicio Social de Iglesias Dominicanas (SSID) – national (Dominican Republic)
- Caritas Chile – national (Chile)
- RET International – regional (Panama)
Objectives
This 3-year project (July 2017- June 2020) has the following objectives:
- Increased understanding of common success factors for the scale out of sustainable CBDRM.
- Increased capacity of governments, CSOs and other actors to work together to co-create the enabling environment factors for CBDRM.
- Increased political commitments and accountability for the scale out of sustainable CBDRM.
What constitutes sustainable and institutionalised CBDRM?
264 case studies of sustainable CBDRM were collected and evaluated for sustainability using an evaluation framework. Representatives from the organisations that submitted the top scoring 25 case studies in each region were brought together to identify the factors that contribute to sustainable and institutionalised CBDRM.
Sustainability was defined as the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level or period of time, with characteristics including permanence, effectiveness, ownership, adaptiveness and inclusion.
Institutionalisation was defined as the action of establishing something as a norm in an organisation or culture, with characteristics including policy environment, structures and mechanisms, capacities, culture, funding and accountability.
Funding
The project "Institutionalising Sustainable Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM)" is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents of this webpage and those related to the CBDRM project are the responsibility of GNDR and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
Contacts
For more information, visit www.cbdrm.org or contact us at عنوان البريد الإلكتروني هذا محمي من روبوتات السبام. يجب عليك تفعيل الجافاسكربت لرؤيته..
Downloads & Links
Our CBDRM microsite is a website dedicated to all things CBDRM, where you can find:
- Information about our CBDRM project
- Learning resources, filterable by topic, ingredient, country and region
- Information about past and upcoming activities
- Critical success factors ("ingredients") of sustainable and institutionalised CBDRM
- 10 examples of how you can implement CBDRM successfully (recipes)
- The complete CBDRM “Cookbook”
- 84 CBDRM good practice case studies from Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa
- Episodes of our "Cooking Up Resilience" podcast series
- Videos
- And much more...
