Demonstrating community capacity to program and manage Community Disaster Resilience Fund (CDRF) in India
End of pilot project report, Orissa:
This report is the summary of a project implemented in Orissa, India which aims to carry out a resilience process at community level in order to bring local priorities and capacities of disaster prone vulnerable communities to disaster risk reduction programming. It reports on activities that link community livelihoods and support at-risk communities' socio-cultural-economical and ecological safety, security and acceleration of sustainability.
Its purpose is to demonstrate community-led initiatives in disaster risk reduction; initiatives that are designed by communities and which enable them to increase their awareness of their vulnerabilities and to address these vulnerabilities through collective risk mapping, identification of priorities, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It addresses the following challenges: (i) mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in to development; (ii) deepening governance and gender; (iii) inter and intra coordination; (iv) adequate development communication; (v) more citizen action on fixing responsibilities and accountability; (vi) disaster risk reduction must linking to livelihoods resilience of rural and urban poor; (vii) demystification of technology: link to ICT; (viii) climate risk as human rights. It also provides some recommendations to undertake action at: policy level, institutional level (Research institution and Civil Society Organisation), and individual level.