Community Risk Assessment: From Rhetoric to Action
A Case Study of Collaboration from Bangladesh
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Persons Killed by Disaster (75-04) 04/11/23 2
Source: worldmapper.org
Person Killed by Storm (75-04)04/11/23 3
Source: worldmapper.org
Human Poverty Report (2002)04/11/23 4
Source: worldmapper.org
Carbon Emission (2012)04/11/23 5
Source: worldmapper.org
Factors Affecting Vulnerability
• Poverty • Demographic and social factors• Migration to high risk areas• Escalated environmental degradation• 10% of the land mass at risk of being
inundated (2050, climate change)• Arsenic contamination (2/3)• Inadequate building practices04/11/23 6
What the World Leaders Feel
“Because of its adaption and preparedness measures, the people of Bangladesh are much safer today.”
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Ban Ki Moon UN Secretary General, 2011
The Brighter SideBangladesh is the “epitome of resilience,” as evidenced by its successful efforts to reduce mortality from cyclones over the last 40 years.
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Margareta Wahlström, UNISDRNational Disaster Preparedness Day March 2012
Research Study on the Impact of CRA
• 26 CRA tools and processes being applied by different agencies
• Based on the CRA RRAP • High visibility areas 5-6 RRAPs• Unplanned planning, competition, confusion,
doing more harm than good• Limited and unplanned flow of resources:
negative sum game
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The Churning Process
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Addressing the Issue
• Realization of the issues• Agree to Uniform tools and processes• Govt. supported and CDMP facilitated• Review of CRA tools and processes (collection and in-
depth analysis)• Harmonized and Inclusive CRA (tools and processes)• Field testing and validation at the community level• National Level Validation (developing the buy-in)• Approval by the Government
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Roll Out of CRA: Putting the Thoughts into Action
• Defining participation: Process owned, managed and controlled by the community: Gradual Process
• Community: The Invisible force, recognized village leaders, community leaders and local government officials
• Three tiered structure for skills transferCDMP+ NARRI Community Vol Community• Initial Training followed by hand holding support in the
field• Till date 60 (rural) and 30 (urban)• CRA RRAP : Community at the center of processes
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Resource Mobilization Mechanism• RRAP validation at community level and
reinforcing the needs• Project management and advocacy team• Action matrix (activity, timeline, budget and
budget source)• Bottom to top: sharing• Management, transparency and
accountability mechanism sharing• Target: Self, SSN, ADP, NGOs, CDMP04/11/23 13
Implementation of RRAP
• The project management team supervises the implementation of RRAP
• The local government officials along with the local governance representative monitor the progress directly
• A certain % of the budget is earmarked for monitoring
• Different models for resource channelization are being explored at the moment
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Recommendations and Challenges• Universalize (Pan Bangladesh): Mandatory, Incentivize• Capacity Enhancement of Community and Community
Resource Persons (PMC)• National level resource base: data• Disaster: A development issues (finding of CRA into ADP)• Resource flow: Management, Transparency and
Accountability • Assumes a good coordination: Dynamics, Conflict,
Politics: Realistic ???• Up-scaling the model: how, what, resources???
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