Measuring Resilience: Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Disaster Risk Reduction
The course focuses on the participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning in resilient communities as the goal of community managed disaster risk reduction. It shall cover skills in facilitating data collection and analysis with the community to enhance their capacity, confidence and control over decisions and processes towards community resilience.
Course Highlights
- Highly participatory methods (simulation exercises, focus group discussions, workshops, role play, video showing, case stories, games, fi eld practicum, etc.)
- Participants are active key resource persons, facilitators and learners
- Field practicum that allows participants to practice participatory tools in measuring community resilience in an on-going resilience building program of IIRR
- On-site visits to IIRR’s demonstration garden and farm featuring climate-smart agriculture as a strategy for building resilience in livelihoods, food security and nutrition
- Action planning
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants shall have:
- Identified the building blocks of community resilience;
- Discussed the approaches towards building community resilience;
- Compared a range of frameworks for measuring resilience;
- Develop a framework that suits their project/program;
- Used participatory tools that complements their measuring resilience framework; and
- Identified specific action for applying learnings in their specific work context.
Methodologies
The course uses a participatory training approach. Short lectures are complemented by group exercises, case study analysis, plenary discussions and field visits to communities. The trainers are experienced IIRR professionals.
Contents
Module 1: Resilience Building: Concepts, Principles and Practices
This module will tackle the concept of community resilience and the major approaches to facilitate resilience building. Participants will be introduced to a whole range of framework that brings together community development work, disaster risk reduction and management and climate change adaptation and mitigation as important elements for building community resilience. Participants will share their current work and how these contribute to resilience building.
Module 2: Designing Community Resilience Measurements Framework
This module will look into designing community resilience measurement frameworks.The measurement framework includes identifying the outcomes to be measured using a set of indicators and how these can be measured. The participants will critically look into various community resilience measurement frameworks available. They will design community resilience measurement frameworks that fit their programs/projects. These will carefully consider participatory approaches and facilitating learning into the overall design process.
Module 3: Participatory Tools in Measuring Community Resilience
The participants will be introduced to using various tools in Participatory Learning and Action as a methodology for facilitating a participatory approach to measuring community resilience. This module will also bring the participants to an actual on-going community resilience program to do field practical exercises. Participants will use select tools to measure some of the indicators of the program/project of IIRR.
Module 4: Action Planning
Participants will develop an action plan for implementation which are based on the realities of the communities and implemented in line with organizational, program or project thrusts.