Build Change Prevents Housing Loss Caused by Disasters
Build Change, the global leader in systems change for resilient housing, works to make each house disaster resilient for safer homes and safer people.
Description
Build Change mobilizes people, money, and technology to transform systems for regulating, financing, building, and improving houses around the world.
Our theory of change involves overcoming three barriers to adoption common to so many development challenges: people, money and technology. Through our engagement with people, we strengthen the demand for resilient housing; through our advancement of technology, we advance the supply of resilient housing; and by overcoming the barrier of money, we mobilize financing for resilient housing. We can create thriving economies, develop resilient communities, and eliminate disaster risk.
Build Change has contributed to more than 90,000 safer buildings, 470,000 safer people, 78,000 people trained, 33,000 jobs created and 120 organizations changed.
Did the Sendai Framework change or contribute to changes in your activities/organization? If so, how?
The Sendai Framework prioritizes "building better from the start to withstand hazards through proper design and construction", which is well aligned to Build Change's mission and approach and reflects our commitment to prevention to strengthen homes and protect families. The themes of disaster risk reduction and preparedness are central to our work and play a significant role in advancing systems change for housing resilience worldwide.
What led you to make this commitment/initiative?
What was your position before making this Voluntary Commitment / prior to the Sendai Framework?
Now is the time to catalyze action to protect people from disasters. We are publishing this initiative to strengthen investment in resilient housing, to shape global and national policies relating to resilient housing, and to bring together the best technical expertise for cutting-edge innovations to bring resilient housing to scale.
Deliverables and Progress report
Deliverables
Deliverables are the end-products of the initiative/commitment, which can include issuance of publications or knowledge products, outcomes of workshops, training programs, videos, links, photographs, etc.
Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit Manual. Produced by SwissContact and Build Change for use in Colombia.
This paper will further support the implementation of retrofitting of vulnerable houses that need seismic retrofitting based on experiences gleaned from retrofitting implemented following the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal and in coordination with the Nepalese National Reconstruction Authority (NRA).
This Primer introduces engineering and development professionals to the basic steps in the process of planning and executing post-disaster seismic retrofit of housing projects funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is intended to provide government officials with the steps, principles, and best practices that need to be taken to carry out safe and effective housing retrofit in a post-disaster situation.
This Primer covers the basic steps in the process of selecting a model for planning and executing site hazard mitigation projects. It is intended to provide government officers with the steps, principles, and best practices that need to be taken to carry out
construction of site hazard mitigation measures properly in a post-disaster situation. It provides a road map for developing a project through planning, design, and implementation.
Porgress report
Build Change continued to implement resilient housing interventions throughout the world. In 2021, Build Change recommenced interventions in Haiti, launched a new program in Honduras, and continued operations in its flagship programs, including Colombia, Philippines, and Indonesia, among others. Build Change launched the Build Change Guide to Resilient Housing, a resource for governments and practitioners to design and implement resilient housing programs and based on Build Change's nearly 20 years of implementation experience.
In 2021, select achievements include:
- Launched the Build Change Guide to Resilient Housing
- Supported the city of Bogota, Colombia in the design and pilot for Plan Terrazas. The city of Bogotá now has a working Curaduría Pública Social and the program is advancing in its goal to strengthen and improve 1,250 houses.
- In the Philippines, strengthened over 100 houses and made over 500 people safer through increased access to housing finance
- Launched the Intelligent Supervision Assistant for Construction to enable AI to support and strengthen construction at scale
- Joining the Race to Resilience and advocating for Resilient Housing at COP26
Build change has also published their 2021 Annual Report, which can be found in this link: https://www.flipsnack.com/buildchangeintl/build-change-2021-annual-report.html
Organizations and focal points
Implementing Organization(s)
Focal points
