Facilitating community-managed disaster risk reduction
Over 40% of the population in the horn of Africa lives in drought prone arid and semi arid areas. Other widespread challenges in the continent such as; floods, conflict, HIVAIDS, disease epidemics, and environmental degradation continue to impoverish the different communities.
The continuous destruction of the economy and the gains realized from many years of development work due to drought, conflicts, floods and other hazards. IIRR in collaboration with CORDAID has documented good community practices on coping with drought and has developed several resources including a toolkit, that are proving to be very useful to the organizations working in the drought prone areas. In 2008, IIRR and Cordaid developed a trainer’s manual on CMDRR which is the guide for the popular CMDRR course. IIRR is providing capacity building support in DRR to Cordaid partners. This gives us the realities which we share with our course participants. It has also provided CMDRR support to other development organizations region such as UNOCHA, Oxfam International, Save the Children, World Vision, and FAO among others. The CMDRR course addresses the need of enabling communities to increase their capacity to reduce risk and vulnerability and to build resilience to withstand and cope with the impact of hazards.
This course will provide the applicants:
-To apply the philosophy, concepts and principles of community managed disaster risk reduction
-To analyse various disaster risk reduction frameworks and models with special focus on common hazards in the horn of Africa.
-To identify and analyse different types of hazards and examine community managed approaches to reduce disaster risks
-Facilitate the process of participatory risk analysis and assess the impact of major hazards like drought, floods, disease epidemics, conflict, HIV/ AIDS and other common hazards.
-Facilitating Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction Course (CMDRR)
Apply the community planning process in the context of disaster risk reduction efforts and adapt participatory tools for doing so.
-Develop an action plan to support community managed disaster risk reduction efforts taking into consideration the major hazards in the region. Highlights of the workshop
-Completed simulated community disaster risk assessment to deal with specific hazards
-Undertake field practical in a local community
-Sharing experiences with other managers from the region.