Demystifying Grassroots Partnerships: Building Community Resilience
Huairou Commission
regina.pritchett@huairou.org
Description
The Community P r a c t i t i o n e r s Academy invites
Grassroots leaders working as community p r a c t i t i o n e r s in community resilience and disaster risk and reduction to convene, share their practices and consolidate their priorities towards the 2013 UNISDR Global Platform and a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (HFA2).
The Academy is an unconventional space where grassroots leaders are invited as experts on community resilience and will highlight grassroots-driven strategies. Institutional partners from local governments and NGOs are invited to share their practices on how they are expanding, formalizing and resourcing the roles of local communities in building resilience.
The Objectives of the Academy are to:
1. Convene community leaders and institutional champions to collectively analyze effective practices and partnerships that build climate resilience. Towards this objective we will focus on how to construct partnerships with different stakeholders around community driven disaster risk reduction.
2. For community leaders who are members of the Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience to adopt a set of working agreements and shared understandings.
3. Identify key elements of a 2 year collaborative strategic plan for the Community Practitioners Platform and advocacy priorities for the Global Platform.
4. Identify community priorities that should be incorporated in a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (HFA2).
The community practitioners platform for resilience will meet on Sunday 19 May and Monday 20 May, while Sunday will be discussing shorter term activities, Monday 20 May is discussing long-term on a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction.
Expected Outcomes
Grassroots leaders to convene, share their practices and consolidate their priorities towards the 2013 UNISDR Global Platform and the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (HFA2).
Outcomes
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