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RESILIENCE THROUGH EMPOWERMENT

RESILIENCE THROUGH EMPOWERMENT. Suranjana Gupta Huairou Commission Consultative Meeting: Global Network of NGOs on Disaster Risk Reduction ISDR Geneva, Switzerland October 2006. Huairou Commission. Created in Beijing 1995

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RESILIENCE THROUGH EMPOWERMENT

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  1. RESILIENCE THROUGH EMPOWERMENT Suranjana Gupta Huairou Commission Consultative Meeting: Global Network of NGOs on Disaster Risk Reduction ISDR Geneva, Switzerland October 2006

  2. Huairou Commission • Created in Beijing 1995 • Experimental partnership entity of grassroots women’s organizations, NGOs, Donors, Local Authorities • Focus: Grassroots women and settlements • 5 Global Campaigns: Governance, Secure Tenure, HIVAIDS, Peace and Resilience Building • Groots International taken the lead in this thematic campaign

  3. Key Elements of Our Approach • Casting women in the role of partners • Mobilizing community based organizations • Putting information in the hands of women. • Creating safe spaces for women and children • Making institutions responsive and accountable to communities. • Restoring, diversifying and upgrading livelihoods to collective enterprise • Transferring innovations through peer exchange

  4. How do we build resilient communities? • Social networks, community based organizations are strengthened • Improved access to basic services eg. ASHAA • Sustained participation in development: continuous and refining of skills and knowledge enabling them to mobilize these in a crisis. • Institutional accountability to communities

  5. Challenges in risk reduction programs • Community resilience building is seen as emergency response; one-time training • Women are bypassed because social barriers prevent them from public spaces and planning. • Community involvement ends when projects end • Capacities left behind in communities are usually confined to “hardware” • Difficult to get communities interested in disaster, particularly where disasters are infrequent.

  6. Groots-AJWSGlobal Initiative to Strengthen Community Trainers 1. Global network of women trainers in Asia and Latin America and Caribbean with expertise in : • Organizing and training disaster response teams • Building federations of livelihoods groups to access credit and markets • Disaster safe construction teams • Improving institutional accountability and access to basic services • Teaching other communities 2. Refining community tools and methodologies for transferring innovation

  7. Why is this initiative exciting? • Recognition to grassroots women leaders as experts. • Opportunities for communities to reflect on and articulate practices and develop methodologies to transfer these. • Located on the disaster-development intersection, thus relevant to communities even when disaster is not an immediate concern • The potential to rapidly scale up community innovations in recovery and resilience

  8. Using grassroots expertise to support women’s participation in Sri Lanka 2007 • Partnering with International Center for Sustainable Cities with funding from CIDA to mobilize women to plan and manage 3 women and children’s centers • Partnering with UN Habitat to enhance women’s participation in 5 cities

  9. How can policy makers support community-driven, women centered resilience? • Set standards and operational guidelines for women’s participation in DRR. • Provide resources to integrate DRR with ongoing development processes and priorities of grassroots women. • Create a demand for community trainers pre and post disaster. • Convene forums which provide opportunities for communities to convey lessons learned to policy makers.

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