Raise DRR awareness through faith-based organisations
ACT will use the extraordinary reach of its network of faith-based organizations to raise DRR awareness at grassroots level, by influencing local leadership and educating community members
Description
In line with the strategic priority we accord to community resilience, the ACT Alliance will use the extraordinary reach and trust of its network of faith-based and church-based organizations to raise disaster risk reduction awareness at grassroots level, including in hard-to-reach locations, by influencing local leadership and educating community members, including through the deployment of church volunteers.
Indicators:
Number of examples cited by ACT country-level Forums of:
(i) influencing local leadership to accord greater priority to community resilience and DRR
(ii) educating community members about community resilience and DRR, and
(iii) deploying church volunteers to promote community resilience and DRR awareness
Means of verification:
The ACT Alliance Humanitarian Policy and Practice Advisory group will undertake a survey of ACT country-level forums to gather information about progress on a country-by-country basis
Did the Sendai Framework change or contribute to changes in your activities/organization? If so, how?
The growing global consensus that it represents helped us to advocate to our member agencies that community-based resilience should be a high priority
What led you to make this commitment/initiative?
What was your position before making this Voluntary Commitment / prior to the Sendai Framework?
The Sendai process encouraged us to think of ambitious commitments that we could make to help the process to gather momentum. This commitment fitted our niche comparative advantage as a grassroots faith alliance. We were already working on resilience with a faith lens pre-Sendai, but the process stimulated us to more concretely articulate our intent
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.
Number of examples cited by ACT country-level Forums of deploying church volunteers to promote community resilience and DRR awareness
This output will be presented via a list of instances where ACT members have executed relevant local level resilience initiatives plus case studies providing more depth and detail of a sample of examples.
Number of examples cited by ACT country-level Forums of educating community members about community resilience and DRR
This output will be presented via a list of instances where ACT members have executed relevant local level resilience initiatives plus case studies providing more depth and detail of a sample of examples.
Number of examples cited by ACT country-level Forums of
influencing local leadership to accord greater priority to community resilience and DRR
This output will be presented via a list of instances where ACT members have executed relevant local level resilience initiatives plus case studies providing more depth and detail of a sample of examples.
Porgress report
ACT Alliance has collected case studies of progress against the commitment. Detailed case studies collected so far describe 22 examples of influencing local leadership to accord greater priority to community resilience and disaster risk reduction; 29 examples of educating community members about community resilience and disaster risk reduction; and 4 examples of deploying church volunteers to promote community resilience and disaster risk reduction awareness.
Influencing leadership: ACT Alliance country forums and members have influenced local leadership including in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Chad, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru and Uganda.
Educating communities: ACT Alliance country forums and members have educated community members including in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Chad, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru and Uganda.
Deploying volunteers: ACT Alliance country forums and members have deployed church volunteers, including in Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Peru.
More detailed descriptions are in the attachments
Organizations and focal points
Implementing Organization(s)
Focal points
