Recap from Day 1

1. Recap from Day 1 • Co-design workshop as part of a process that aims to accelerate change in humanitarian aid delivery • Positive attributes and opportunities of when external aid is absent! (autonomous self-help)…. • ...and frustrations with HOW externally-led emergency responses are conducted when they do arrive • Clarification of some terms: localisation development, humanitarian, nexus, community, resilience • Benefits from and challenges/risks of supporting greater community leadership of crisis response • global recognition of need to change , make humanitarian response more “localised” • Identified possible core components of an emerging practice for supporting community-led crisis response

2. Recap thought from Day 1:Communities in crisis…. Passive victims who are dependent on us to address and solve their problems? .....Or active first-responders who could do even more if they had the relevant support? Not either externally-led or community-led, But both. We need to find the right balance.

3. Day 2:Participatory Action Learning in Crisis (palc) Developing a community-owned processes for rapid strength-based situation analysis, self-mobilisation, information-management, and learning A key “component” of sclr

4. Community–based information, mobilisation & learning systems Collective emergency micro-grants Rapid provision of relevant emergency skills up-grading: - context specific tech & management - psycho-social response - conflict analysis & resolution An emerging practice Changes in Institutional roles, relationships, and systems Autonomous self-help by crisis affected people Support for locally-led longer term processes to address root causes of vulnerability, & mentoring Connecting, networking, alliances (inc. private sector) Locally-relevant coordination services (horizontal & vertical)

5. Objective of palc Empower and Support communities to rapidly initiate (and sustain) their own: • situation analysis (focus on “appreciative-inquiry”), • mobilisation and animation for promoting multiple local self-help initiatives • optimal mechanisms for local quality-control: accountability, inclusiveness, conflict-sensitivity and coordination • Systems for learning (by doing) This is primarily for increasing the quantity, effectiveness, inclusiveness, connectedness, accountability and conflict-sensitivity of their own interventions. But is can also generate information and data needed to inform the plans of external actors.

6. Finding the right name • Participatory action research?...X • Participatory action learning in crises (palc)....? • Community information management and mobilisation? (rapid) • Accelerated community mobilisation and information sharing? (ACMI)? • Accelerated PVCA? Or perhaps best not to lump together……?

7. Evolving functions of a complete palc process • Energise, mobilise & disseminate information on sclr • Facilitate community-led assessment of self-help opportunities, constraints, gaps (appreciative inquiry) • Special encouragement for women, youth and marginalised groups (promoting inclusion, alerting on exclusion) • Establish community-based coordination and information hub • Identify local mechanisms for accountability and transparency • Advise/monitor on do-no-harm and conflict sensitivity • Facilitate learning and dissemination of lessons • Start conversations about addressing root causes (catalyst) • Provide relevant data to inform external actors

8. Group work (or threesomes) Look at the detailed handout palc#1 on palc objectives & components and see if you need to add, change or remove anything.

9. Who will carry out PALC? PALC Initiator(s) from the LNGO and PALC Volunteers from the Community, (trained & partially supported by the LNGO)

10. (Group work) The role of the PALC initiators & volunteers: the “eyes, ears and voice” of the locally led response • Search for and share experiences of self-help (material & psychosocial): local solutions, ideas, animating, mobilising, “catalyst” • Informing people about Support for Community-led Response and how to apply for assistance for their own interventions: skills, micro-grants, mentoring, connections • Giving special encouragement to women and marginalised groups to develop their ideas into action plans • Identifying best local ways of reducing risks of doing harm and of strengthening accountable and transparent use of micro-grants • Contributing to psycho-social recovery • Facilitating evaluations and lesson learning from community group interventions/micro-grants • Starting community conversations about ideas for addressing root causes; encouraging people to look at longer term issues and opportunities • Identifying gaps (targeting or sectoral) and gathering ideas on how to deal with them (to inform ‘collaborative’ coordination) • Discussing what are the needs and opportunities for locally-relevant coordination and information storage and sharing

11. Core areas of inquiry for PALC • Rapid assessment of opportunities for increasing self help (appreciative inquiry) • Mechanisms of Accountability, transparency and avoiding harm • Gap analysis and inclusiveness • Coordination needs and sharing information with other actors • Longer term resilience and addressing root causes • What are we learning? How to do better?

12. Group work (or threesomes): • look at the detailed hand out on PALC question checklist and see if you need to add, change or remove anything.

13. Ideas for documenting the findings in a community information hub • large scale map of the target area of key information regarding the changing effects of the crisis and the interventions being made • A list (and poster?) of the existing capacitiesto build on for effective community response • A list of the proposals (and/or copies of the proposals) of community groups that require additional support to be implemented, clarifying the different types and amounts of support (scale of funds, types of skills training, advocacy, contacts) • a list of prioritised interventions required by external actors to fill gaps in the local response – i.e. pressing needs that local community cannot respond to even with micro-grant or training support • Consider use of oral traditions, local “memory-banks” • Consider use of appropriate, community-friendly IT

14. PALC Volunteers • Ideas for identifying & mobilising? • Ideas for training? • Ideas for incentivising ? • Ideas for managing ? • Ideas for documenting?

15. Rolling out PALC: key steps & time frames

16. Introductory meetings by LNGO • Rational for strengthening resilience of community • Introduce the sclr approach: PALC, micro-grants, skills training, psycho-social, conflict transformation, networks, root causes, local coordination. • Inspire and catalyse! Encourage them to recognise their own potential for self-help and encourage them to do more as heroes, not victims • Get an initial idea what they think are their core collective strengths and what they have already achieved through their own local response • Begin to identify existing groups or key individuals who are already active and worth meeting • Let them know that you would like to have a series of meetings with different groups and key informants throughout the community over the coming weeks to inform them of sclr and get their ideas on how it can be most effective (PALC question checklist) • Introduce idea that training could be provided to establish a community team of PALC volunteers and begin to identify those who might be interested to participate in such a training • Fix a time to do a follow-up community meeting with women only, and another one with youth only • Start building trust. But also let them realise you are wise enough: not handing out cash grants unless clear criteria have been met.

17. Group work on training palc volunteers: Imagine you are in a fast onset crisis. You had already few meetings with community and you gained trust. You have already introduced the idea of using volunteers. You have funds and you are targeting a large area but you have little time. You have half a day to work with youths. You have small money for the bus and buying few t-shirts for the volunteers • Look at handout PALC#2 on training palc volunteers: • What do you like about the training topics? • What can be improved? • What are the gaps?

18. Group work

19. Community–based information, mobilisation & learning systems Collective emergency micro-grants Rapid provision of relevant emergency skills up-grading: - context specific tech & management - psycho-social response - conflict analysis & resolution An emerging practice Changes in Institutional roles, relationships, and systems Autonomous self-help by crisis affected people Support for locally-led longer term processes to address root causes of vulnerability, & mentoring Connecting, networking, alliances (inc. private sector) Locally-relevant coordination services (horizontal & vertical)