Views from the Frontline National Coordinating Organisations
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About Views from the Frontline 2019
VFL 2019 provides a complementary bottom-up perspective on progress at the impact/outcome level to UNISDR’s top-down Sendai Monitoring Tool. VFL 2019 will establish a local baseline and local monitoring process to measure progress towards achieving an inclusive “people-centred” approach to resilience-building, as promoted within the SFDRR and associated frameworks. In so doing, VFL 2019 aims to increase awareness and strengthen accountability of governments and inter-governmental bodies for a people-centred approach. VFL 2019 takes a systems-wide perspective that recognises different actors have different but related responsibilities at different administrative levels. Local-level interviews are complemented by survey questions targeting key informants working on the sub-national/national institutional and political environment. Questions on the “enabling environment” are designed to increase awareness and assess progress on wider institutional factors essential to scale out local action, putting a political spotlight on gaps and challenges to be addressed in through mutually-reinforcing actions by different actors at different scales. The whole process is led by local actors themselves, building their capacity to monitor and utilise local risk information.
GNDR invites applications for implementing Views from the Frontline (VFL) 2019 as National Coordinating Organisations. VFL 2019 will be implemented in 50 countries across Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa. It will capture the local perspectives on risk and resilience, but also monitor the extent to which local actors are included in resilience-planning processes.
We are particularly looking at applications from organisations based in the following countries: Fiji, Lao PDR, Myanmar, PNG, Solomon Islands, Djubouti and Sudan.
Scope of VFL 2019
VFL 2019 spreads across 3 years. The 3 main components of VFL 2019 include: (a) Collection of data through surveys and consultations; (b) Reflection, which helps to analyse the threats and barriers faced by the communities and identify actions towards building their resilience; and (c) Local actions which would promote building resilience through planning, implementation and influencing policies and practices at the local and national levels. Based on the pilot in 20 communities across the Philippines and Tonga, the survey sample consists of approximately: a) 10% of households randomly sampled; b) 60 individuals from vulnerable groups taking part in community focus group discussions c) 10 CSO representatives interviewed; and d) 10 local government representatives interviewed. An average budget of 45000 Euros depending upon the size and scope is available for the project.