India: Community Practitioner - Policymakers dialogue on DRR and role of grassroots women's groups

A community practitioner and policymakers’ dialogue was held early this month, in New Delhi. The dialogue focused primarily on the Community Disaster Resilience Fund (CDRF), a mechanism designed to put resources in the hands of communities, enabling them to demonstrate their capacities to reduce disaster risk, build local alliances and to promote a community driven approach to disaster risk reduction (DRR).

In addition to the 30 grassroots leaders and NGO representatives from 9 states in India, policymakers were represented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) country office, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction’s (UNISDR) secretariat headquarters and Asia-Pacific offices together with the Government of India’s National Disaster Management Authority. The dialogue was organized by the National Alliance on Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (NAADRR), Swayam Shikshan Prayog, GROOTS International and the Huairou Commission.