Journey of CMDRR- Working with Communities and Government

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Journey of CMDRR- Working with Communities and
Government

• Case from India

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Presentation Outline

• Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction
• Return on Investment (Case study of Community
  responded in Cyclone)
• Engaging with Government at three levels/Private
  Sector
• Challenges in Up-scaling

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Thane Cyclone in South India- 30th Dec 2011

• How CMDRR pays back? And why should we invest?

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Difference in CMDRR and NON DRR villages

• Non DRR Village

• CMDRR Village

• 17 people died and several injured.
• People took Early warning lightly and suffered
  loss .
• Fight over water and even deaths.
• No electricity for 30 days
• People were waiting for Government to click
  pictures of damaged houses
• People were shouting, complaining..

• ZERO death in CMDRR village with almost no
  injury.
• Timely evacuation of elderly, women and children
  by trained task forces.
• Pre arrangement of food, water and medicine in
  rescue shelters.
• Poles erected by volunteers in 3 days
• Debris cleared with in 24 hours after disaster
• People come up with damage assessment, solutions
  and next course of action.

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• Non DRR Village

• CMDRR Village

• Huge loss of agriculture
• Village heads run away out of fear and public
  pressure.
• Non availability of Safe place for evacuation
• No fund available at village level

• Crops were insured.
• Village heads were trained and remain with
  villagers from early warning dissemination till
  evacuation, rescue and relief.
• Availability of Rescue shelters which was made
  by Community-Government-NGO contribution
• Villagers were having Emergency fund to be used
  during disasters

This all re-enforces the fact that it is WORTH
investing in CMDRR
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Some Facts about India
Policy and Guidelines

• 1 Country
• 28 States
• 591 Districts
• 600,000 villages

Disaster Risk Reduction (Community Managed)
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2. Engaging with Government

• Country/National level National Disaster
  Management Authority
• (NDMA)
• State Level State Disaster Management Authority
  (28)- partly exist
• District Level District Disaster Management
  Authority/Plan (591- supposed to be)
• At Village/Panchayat level There is a body
  called (Panchayat)/PRI but for Development work
  not for Disaster Risk Reduction LOCAL Governance

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Strengthening Institutions

• Village level (DRR) plans made by villagers/DRR
  committees integrated into Panchayat Plans
  rather Panchayat making DRR plans Panchayat is
  MOST relevant institution at Village level
• Linking Flagship programmes (rural poor housing,
  sanitation with DRR, MGNREGA- 100 days employment
  with DRR)-Lobbying/Advocacy
• Linkages with Agriculture Centers to promote
  livelihood/agriculture
• Facilitating District Disaster Management Plan
  (model 2 districts) of Government.

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• Core group at NDMA level (Policy dialogue and
  formulation) Role of community in disasters and
  characteristics of resilient community, Role of
  NGOs in Disasters
• Strengthening School safety- demonstration and
  national Policy (with NDMA)
• Membership with National forums like SPHERE
  India. And chairing National level coordination
  for Emergency Response
• Demonstrating Hyogo Framework Action at field
  level- practicing Global commitments in the field

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Private Sector role

• Global Image India Shining, which is partly
  true.
• Private sector Key stakeholder
• Most of the private sector is medium and small
  enterprises
• Government Law As per Company Act, private
  companies to give 2 of profit for social sector
• Mechanisms are yet to be in place
  How/where/when?
• Its an opportunity

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Challenges in Up-scaling

• Non existence or functional Institutional
  arrangement especially at State and District
  level
• Capacity of institutions (Knowledge gap/use of
  technology/Early warning)
• Resource allocation- not priority always
  (Individual/family/Government)
• Culture of preparedness still missing and
  accountability- Not there. Still response
  oriented
• Large country to operate.. Huge resources/time
  required
• DRR Vs. private sector is a missing element.
  Private sector more for soft issues of
  education/health

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• Thank you ?