Enhancing Community Resilience to
Natural Disasters in Southeast Asia
Project overview:
The Enhancing Community Resilience to Natural
Disasters in Southeast Asia is proposed as a
follow-up action to the workshop on
Strengthening Resilience of Local Communities to
Cope with Natural Disasters within the framework
of the end-to-end early warning system for
tsunamis, floods, storms and drought. As such,
the program recalls the interest expressed by
the Danish Government at the Ministerial Meeting
on Regional Cooperation on Tsunami Early Warning
Arrangements on 29 January 2005 in Phuket to the
establishment of the regional tsunami early
warning system in accordance with national needs
and priorities. Consequently, the program will
contribute to increasing the capacities of
general communities and local government
authorities in water-related disaster risk
management to serve as management activities
within the areas of responsibility.
The participatory approach that involves
communities at risk, community-based,
non-government, and government organizations,
would build trust and ensure the sustainability
of the program. Therefore, the project focuses
on the local community level, since this is
where disaster risk reduction would have the
greatest impact.
Objectives:
At the end of the program the relevant
stakeholders will be able to:
Identify, assess and monitor hazards and
vulnerabilities in their localities through
capacity building process;
Develop people-centered, locally-relevant
and actionable early warning and demonstrate
its delivery and application for risk
reduction at the community level;
Equip authorities and communities with
knowledge, tools, and capacities to enable
them to respond timely and appropriately to
warnings;
Prepare a local risk reduction plan and
implement a priority action;
Build capacities for replication of
community-based risk reduction process in
other vulnerable locations in the country.
The program aims to build resilience in select
villages in Cambodia and Vietnam, which have the
poorest and most vulnerable communities in the
region.
Implementation plans:
The plan has been divided into 5 main components
as following modules.
1. Participatory Risk Assessment:
The project will be initiated by meeting and
constitution of working groups. The CBDRM will
be trained to the trainers. The participatory
risk assessment will be followed up the action
with documentation of methodology used.
2. Delivery and Application of Locally Relevant,
Actionable Warnings:
This part will be started by mapping of
institutions and information flow. Then user
assessment will be done followed by curriculum
adaptation and testing. Accordingly, training on
forecast interpretation and translation into
impact outlook will be implemented as well as
training on warning communication. Finally, the
development and application of localized
forecast products will be operated composing of
three sub actions: 1) tool development, 2)
establishing ADPC's data processing and
forecasting capabilities and 3) monitoring of
application of localized forecast products.
3. Tools, Practicles and Capacities for
Appropriate Response:
Development of risk communication strategy and
plan will be the first task of this module
followed by pre-testing or pubic awareness
products and risk messages. Local implementation
of priority risk communication strategy will
also be supported as well as awareness seminar
on local disaster management and planning.
Identification of shelters, development of
evacuation plant and mock drill will be
considered as the last part of this module.
4. Preparation and Implementation of Local
Risk Reduction Plan: Risk reduction measures and preparation of
risk reduction plan will be implemented as well
as supported to the local implementation of
priority risk reduction activity.
5. National Lessons Learned Workshop:
Once the above activities have been fully
implemented, national lessons learned workshop
will be operated; e.g. hazard (structural)
mitigation, early warning, public awareness,
community organizing, livelihoods strengthening,
community health, training, community
preparedness, emergency response and
sustainability and replication.
Partners:
Under the formal Memorandum of Understanding
between ADPC and the Ministry of Water Resources
and Meteorology in Cambodia and National
Hydro-Meteorological Service in Vietnam, we work
with the following agencies:
Department of Meteorology, Ministry of Water
Resources and Meteorology, Cambodia
Science, Technology and International
Cooperation, National Hydro-Meteorological
Service, Vietnam
Contact Us
Enhancing Community Resilience to Natural
Disasters in Southeast Asia
Climate Risk Management
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang
Pathumthani 12120
Bangkok, Thailand
ramrajn@adpc.net and jedsada@adpc.net
T: (662) 516-5900 ext. 417
F: (662) 524-5360
ADPC carries out pre-flood assessments and
“end-to-end” flood forecasting information in Bangladesh
Field
Brief 30 Aug 08
Field
Brief 1 Sept 08
Coastal Community Resilience (CCR)
training workshop, Sri Lanka
Concept note:
ADPC Coastal Community
Resilience (CCR) Initiative
More >
National Consultation Session on
Coastal Community Resilience
and other coastal issues in
Myanmar and Society
15 Feb, 2008
Download workshop concept note here
