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Building Capacity of CORDAID’s India Partners on CMDRR
(GUJARAT, India - May 6, 2010) - IIRR conducted training on Facilitating Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction for CORDAID’s partners in India on April 5-16, 2010. The training was hosted by UNNATI, a CORDAID partner, in Gujarat, India. Twenty-six participants representing nine partner organizations attended the course. The course started with establishing a common understanding of the philosophy, principles and practices/processes of the community-managed disaster risk reduction working framework. It also covered the process of how to facilitate the community towards taking charge of their own community risk reduction process. Understanding the risks the community faces and learning how to assess their vulnerability and capacity to address these risks, the participants developed the confidence how to integrate disaster risk reduction at the organization and community levels through community-owned action plans.
To provide participants hands-on experience on how to facilitate initiating a CMDRR process, a two-day practicum was organized in two villages: Ghodpar and Kharol Vandh. Godpar belongs to Vandhia Panchayat, Bachau and Kharol Vandh is in Rahiyada Panchayat, Bhuj. Both are in the District of Kuchch. With the people in these villages, participants facilitated the identification of prioritized hazard, its nature, vulnerable groups, conditions of vulnerabilities and their capacity to mitigate and cope with the force and impact of the hazard.
As part of the sustainable capacity development process for CORDAID partners, ASK India co-facilitated the training with the IIRR team. Together, IIRR and ASK formed a formidable team able to respond to the needs of the participants in their very specific and local DRR context. The team is comprised of Hassan Hulufo and Marise Espineli from IIRR and Prakash Layak and Saiju from ASK.
CORDAID is one of the largest international development organizations in the Netherlands and has a network of almost a thousand partners in 36 countries in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. Its CMDRR program links local communities with the global community emphasizing the need for joint reflection and action towards change and justice. The CMDRR training in India is part of its partners’ capacity development program. Another similar effort is coming up for its Bangladesh partners in the first two weeks of June 2010.
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