Networks & Communities

Apiário

Apiário is a platform to promote social business for greater efficiency in support of emergency situations in Brazil. A call to action is promoted for young social entrepreneurs, to implement projects that help solving problems in emergency and risky situations in Brazil. The platform takes place under the organizational environment, to foster social business entrepreneurs to implement different links needed to support an excellent management of natural disasters in Brazil, facilitated by groups of people and entities that can meet financial, technical and coaching demands.

Asia regional task force on urban risk reduction

To facilitate interactions among different stakeholders, the Asia Regional Task Force on Urban Risk Reduction, established in a meeting in Kobe, Japan in January 2008, is coordinated by the UNISDR Hyogo Office in Kobe. The Task Force is currently represented by 21 member organizations, and is open for expansion. The goal of the Task Force is to enhance decisive actions to reduce risk and increase community resilience in the urban areas in the Asia region. The Task Force promotes the collective activities of its member organizations. It will work in line with the HFA for the region.

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Asian Disaster Reduction Response Network

Their main aim is to promote coordination, information sharing and collaboration among NGOs and other stakeholders for effective and efficient disaster reduction and response in the Asia-Pacific region.

Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI)

CADRI was created in 2007 as a joint programme of the United Nations Development Programme´s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (UNDP/BCPR), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), and the United Nation International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR). In 2005, 168 countries drafted and approved the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005 -2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters at the World Conference for Disaster Reduction, Kobe, Japan. The HFA lays out a detailed ten-year strategy to integrate disaster risk reduction as an essential component of national development policies and programmes, and presents a challenge to all stakeholders to focus on developing capacity for disaster risk reduction. Recognizing that capacity development is a cross-cutting activity for disaster risk reduction, CADRI's creation is designed to support this integration. CADRI relates to all five priorities of the HFA. CADRI was formally launched by the three organizations at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in Geneva in 2007. Cadri operates as a support mechanism to the broader ISDR system, including national actors, regional organizations and global thematic platforms and networks. It's goal is to advance the generation of knowledge and related experience pertinent to developing sustainable capacity for disaster risk reduction, defining capacity development as: "the process whereby people, organizations and society as a whole unleash, strengthen, create, adapt and maintain capacity over time" (OECD DAC 2005).

CapHaz-Net

CapHaz-Net is a broad extended network on social capacity building for natural hazards. It is composed of scholars, decision-makers, and practitioners from across Europe, such as NGOs, river basin management officers, planners, representatives of the insurance industry and so on.

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network is managed by an alliance of organisations led by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), and including Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano, INTRAC, LEAD International, the Overseas Development Institute, and SouthSouthNorth supporting 'climate compatible development'. The team brings together a wide range of experience across the fields of climate change and development, research, policy development, knowledge management, networking and capacity-building, as well as substantial expertise in the management of global initiatives. CDKN can provide technical assistance and research, supporting knowledge sharing and partnership development in Africa, the Americas and Asia. The £50 million Climate and Development Knowledge Network, funded over five years by DFID, will link 60 developing countries with leading climate and development experts, allowing them to commission and share knowledge on how best to tackle the effects of climate change.

Climate-Eval community of practice

Climate-Eval is the online platform of the broader community of practice (CoP) on climate change and development evaluation whose objectives include the following: 1. an electronic library for Climate Change and Development Evaluation 2. a book launch and publication of the International Conference papers, 'Evaluating Climate Change and Development' (published and available to order) 3. five studies on climate change adaptation and mitigation 4. host virtual discussions

Coastal area disaster mitigation efforts (CADME)

CADME is a coalition of twenty five voluntary organisations working together on disaster preparedness in coastal areas of Andhra pradesh and Orissa. Establishment of task force groups at each vulnerable village to mitigate the effects of Disasters is main intervention of CADME. So far as many as 521 taskforce groups have been formed in 480 vulnerable villages of coastal andhra and orissa. All these taskforce groups are well capacitated and disaster drills are held at regular intervals. The chief funtionary and Disaster manager/Chief trainer on Disaster preparedness, Mr. Meda Gurudutt Prasad is the recipient of UN SASAKAWA award for the year 2003/04.

Duryog Nivaran

Duryog Nivaran is a research, training and advocacy network committed to promoting disaster risk reduction in South Asia at policy and community level. It strives to build the knowledge base of stakeholders by sharing research findings, information, experiences and insights on emerging issues of disaster management in the countries and among the communities of the region.

Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network (ELAN)

ELAN enhances poor and marginalized people's resilience to the impacts of climate change by integrating ecosystem and right-based approaches into adaptation policies and practices.

ELAN is founded on a need for shared experiences, further research and increased capacity to implement innovative and practical ecosystem and livelihood solutions to adaptation and risk reduction based on the latest information and the diffusion of knowledge among adaptation practitioners and policy-makers. ELAN is creating a global network of scientists, policy makers and practitioners dedicated to supporting the integration of sound ecosystem management in adaptation policies, plans and programmes – especially in the world’s most vulnerable countries.

EU Exchange of Experts Programme and Financial Instrument

EU exchange of experts system is designed to complement a training programme tailored to the needs of civil protection interventions within the framework of the Community Mechanism for civil protection. It is open to partners of the European Union civil protection mechanism including the candidate country Croatia and the European Economic Area (Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland). The Community Mechanism consists of a series of elements and actions, which aim at facilitating both adequate preparedness and effective response at Community level.

Global Development Network (GDNet)

GDNet provides southern researchers with a space to profile their work and opportunities to engage with others working in development policy and practice including topics such as Disaster Risk Reduction or Climate Change Adaptation. The tools and services that it offers have been developed specifically to support researchers working in developing countries and to make their work known to an international audience.

The GDNet Knowledgebase is a comprehensive internet portal to development research produced in developing countries. Free to use, it features more than 16,500 research papers which are accompanied by clear conclusion based summaries. You can browse by topic through the GDNet Thematic Windows.

Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit (GRRT) CoP

The Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit (GRRT) is a training program designed to increase awareness and knowledge of environmentally sustainable disaster response approaches. The GRRT is made of ten modules which are designed to be delivered in a one-day training workshop: (i) opportunities after disasters - introduction to green recovery and reconstruction; (ii) project design; (iii) monitoring and evaluation; (iv) environmental impact assessment tools and techniques; (v) green guide to strategic site selection and development; (vi) green guide to materials and the supply chain; (vii) green guide to construction; (viii) green guide to water and sanitation; (ix) green guide to livelihoods; and (x) green guide to disaster risk reduction and greening organizational operations.

India Food Banking Network (IFBN)

India Food Banking Network is a system intending to feed millions of people each year and become a vehicle for building public awareness about hunger and nutrition. It will also serve as a powerful voice that drives policy decisions and initiatives on food security such as the concept of Grain Bank, building the capacity of communities to disasters.

International network for capacity building in integrated water resources management (Cap-Net)

Cap-Net is an international network for capacity building in Integrated Water Resource Management(IWRM). It is made up of a partnership of autonomous international, regional and national institutions and networks committed to capacity building in the water sector.

Networks have proven to be effective at promoting the understanding of integrated water resources management and play a key role in supporting its development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Cap-Net falls within the Energy and Environment Group of UNDP and works closely with the Water Governance Facility. UNDP recognizes the key role of capacity building for integrated water resources management as an important means in promoting sustainable development and combating poverty.

As a UNDP project, Cap-Net is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sida and the EU and hosted by the Water Research Commission, South Africa. EU funds from the Water Facility support actions in Africa and the Caribbean.

Knowledge sharing platform on disaster risk reduction

DisasterPreparedness.ICIMOD.org is a Knowledge Sharing Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) practitioners. The website is community driven, and mainly serves as a dynamic online repository for materials such as publications, reports, articles, links and news related to DRR.

For more information, visit: http://www.disasterpreparedness.icimod.org/dipecho-list.php We welcome you all to join our Group Mail which facilitates knowledge-networking among more than 400 DRR practitioners.

Learning from mega-disasters community of practice

Learning from Mega-Disasters Community of Practice (CoP) is a knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Exchange program that is established by the Government of Japan and the World Bank to collect and analyze information, data, and evaluations performed by academic and research institutions, nongovernmental organizations, government agencies, and the private sector, with the intent of sharing Japan’s knowledge on disaster risk management (DRM) and post disaster reconstruction with countries that are vulnerable to disasters. This CoP will serve as a venue where experts can share views, discuss new topics, upload documents and add comments and suggestions.

Local Emergency Assessment Response Network (LEARN) in Sumatra Island, Indonesia

Local Emergency Assessment Response Network (LEARN) is HEKS's Project in Indonesia. The LEARN is unique in its kind on Sumatra. LEARN is situated at an important interface of the Indonesian Disaster Risk Reduction (DRM) structure closing the gap between the local disaster management entities (BPBD), NGOs on the spot, community organizations and most importantly the affected communities. Despite the vast Indonesian DRR efforts, local and regional government officials do not yet have a sound enough knowledge of the complex issues regarding preparedness and emergency response in all its details and they are often too far from the grassroots level. Moreover, due to the LEARN trainings aspects of preparedness and disaster risk reduction are integrated into the daily project work and the resilience of people at the lowest level can be strengthened. This is a particular advantage of the project as the community level has so far not been reached by the Disaster Management efforts of the Indonesian government. Experiences show that behaviour patterns regard-ing preparedness and the reaction to disaster situations only happens gradually and over time and re-quires continuous training, simulations and repetition in all parts of society. The knowledge about pre-paredness and the behaviour during and after disasters all over Indonesia has doubtlessly improved compared to the time before the devastating Tsunami in 2004 but is still in the beginning of a long pro-cedure. The development of reparedness strategies at the grassroots level is currently mainly supported by NGOs, hence, LEARN can contribute much to the strengthening of this process. The following modules are incorporated in the twelve day LEARN training cycle: Module 1: Introduction into the topics Emergency Response, Disaster Risk Reduction, Preparedness and Disaster Management and the LEARN Approach Module 2: Preparedness and mitigation measures before a disaster occurs Module 3: Safety and Security Module 4: First Aid in Disasters Module 5: Risk Analysis Module 6: Rapid Needs Assessment - Reporting Module 7: Communication - Technical Know How - Equipment use Module 8: Emergency WASH and Shelter Module 9: Psychology – Coping with Stress and Trauma Basics Module 10: Logistics – Distribution – Proposals Module 11: Evacuation Module 12: Design and implement disaster management trainings and community based disaster management plans There are 8 cycle of training for 75 NGOs in Sumatra.

National Humanitarian Network - NHN Sindh

Mission

The mission of the NHN is to “voice the concerns and advocate for the vulnerable and disaster affected communities for improving policies, procedures and strengthening institutions for rights based disaster mitigation and humanitarian response, and to strengthen the role and capacities of national and local humanitarian actors in setting humanitarian and sustainable development agendas and humanitarian action in Pakistan”.

Objectives

• To act as an institution that engages with all stakeholders that represent National / local NGOs/Civil Society through efficient and effective coordination mechanism
• To conduct evidence based policy advocacy for pre, during and post Humanitarian crisis (disaster preparedness/ mitigation / management issues)
• Facilitate all stakeholders in capacity building to promote community based disaster risk management, emergency response and action.
• To help in organizing and facilitating to make responsive and accountable civil society for humanitarian response and disaster risk management.
• Advocate for and promote empowered partnership in, based on GHP’s agreed principles of partnership and new business model to develop local capacities in humanitarian action.
 

PARSQUAKE: Earthquake education in the global Persian community (Teachers Without Borders)

This online group will collaborate on creating and collecting earthquake education resources that can be used by the global Persian-speaking community.

Periperi U

Periperi U is a platform for university partnership to reduce disaster risks in Africa. It stands for ‘Partners Enhancing Resilience to People Exposed to Risks’ - with a special focus on advancing university action on risk and vulnerability reduction in Africa.

PHREE-Way

PHREE-Way is a global action-learning consortium of organizations working together to expand education and strengthen capacity for disaster risk reduction and humanitarian action towards sustainable development and human security. The founding and initial members include international non-governmental organizations, research and training support organizations, and universities. All members adhere to human security, sustainable development, and humanitarian imperatives, as well as globally-recognized ethics and standards.