Coastal Community Resilience implementation initiative: overview sheet
The CCR implementation initiative, facilitated by ADPC, is a unique regional-wide arrangement in Indian Ocean and in various countries in Asia for growing sensitization, building forum, program demonstration, capacity building and a wide range of application to enhance resilience at local, national and regional level. This initiative is fundamentally based on the major principles of resilience and commitments towards community empowerment at various spheres. CCR initiative has developed to enhance capacity building and demonstration of resilient coastal communities around the region. The initiative contributes towards the future development of Hyogo Framework of Action (HFA), draws into “end to end” early warning system communities and operates through the local partners with an active facilitation from ADPC. The initiative promotes pilot activities at local, national and regional action for bringing resilience at community level and for the people residing in communities vulnerable to coastal hazards. This initiative aims to develop activities “for the community” and sensitizes potentialities and capacities of people and professionals who live “in the community”. This initiative brings together a variety of practitioners to form an integrated framework, region-wide networking, and practical applications at pilot sites for enhancing cumulative community-level preparedness and resilience against disasters of recurring coastal hazards. The initiative is designed to reach thousands of coastal inhabitants by working collectively through networks of partner organizations already engaged in disaster preparedness around Asian and Pacific.