Linking Disaster Recovery and Resilience Building: Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction
This course will provide participants with a basic understanding on the interphase of disaster response, relief and recovery to disaster risk reduction. They will make use of the recent Typhoon Haiyan experience to reflect on how disaster risk reduction can be integrated in their current recovery work. Participants will also learn the basic process and tools to facilitate community-managed disaster risk reduction (CMDRR) with emphasis on participatory disaster risk assessment, risk reduction planning and disaster preparedness. A combination of classroom instruction using adult learning methodologies and a public forum where participants can engage key stakeholders in humanitarian response will be used.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants shall have:
1. understood community resilience building where disaster management interphases with disaster risk reduction;
2. learned the key principles and requirements to facilitate a community-managed disaster risk reduction process;
3. discussed the key elements and strategies to facilitate community-level disaster preparedness;
4. identified strategies and good practices of integrating disaster risk reduction work into disaster response and recovery
Methodologies
The course uses a participatory training approach. Short lectures are complemented by group exercises, case study analysis, plenary discussions and public forum with stakeholders. The trainers are composed of experienced IIRR professionals and practitioners in the field of disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response.
Course Content
Module 1. Resilience Building: Concepts, Principles and Practices
This module will discuss the concept of community resilience and the major approaches to facilitate resilience building. A framework that brings together development work, disaster risk reduction and disaster management as important ingredients for building community resilience will also be discussed. Participants will share their current work and how it contributes to resilience building.
Module 2. Facilitating CMDRR: Methods and Process
There is an in-depth learning discussion on the four minimum requirements of CMDRR namely, participatory disaster risk assessment, risk reduction planning, community organizing and participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning. The process of disaster risk reduction follows the disaster risk formula as the major framework for assessment and action:
Disaster Risk = Hazard x Vulnerability / Capacity
Participatory learning and action (PLA) tools will be used to conduct participatory disaster risk assessmentand analysis (PDRAA). They will also learn to translate the disaster risk assessment results into community level DRR plans and come up with simple mechanisms for monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Module 3: Principles and tools for Community Disaster Readiness
Participants will learn about facilitating contingency planning for communities, setting up a community disaster response system and establishing communitymanaged early warning system. Participants will also learn the use of the Sphere Handbook in setting standards for disaster readiness.
Module 4: Practices in Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction in Disaster Recovery
A half-day public forum will be organized where representatives from various humanitarian organizations in the Philippines and community representatives will be invited to share their practices in integrating DRR into disaster recovery.
Action Planning
The participants will learn to synthesize key lessons learned from Modules 1 to 4, to develop an action plan based on the realities of the communities and in line with organizational, program or project thrusts.