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Title: Training and Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Local Development


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Training and Capacity Building for Disaster Risk
Reduction and Sustainable Local Development
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Background of this training initiative
  • Conceived within the framework of the UN/ISDR in
    response to increasing concern about the
    magnitude of disasters and their impact on local
    communities worldwide.
  • Being part of the capacity-building component of
    the International Recovery Platform (IRP), it
    also looks at post-disaster reconstruction, and
    identifies recovery as one of the key
    opportunities for reducing disaster risk.
  • The impact of disasters on territories seriously
    threatens the fulfillment of the ILOs goal of
    decent work for all which is a key ingredient
    for sustainable development.

HFA
IRP
ILO
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Overall objective
To contribute to the International Strategy for
Disaster Reduction and the implementation of the
Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2015) at the
local level by promoting sustainable local
development policies and practices through
training and capacity building processes
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Target audience
Policy-makers and key players in local
development management and disaster risk
reduction. More specifically people,
institutions, governmental and non governmental
organizations of civil society and cooperation
working at the local level and engaged in the
promotion of more resilient communities.
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Geographical and linguistic coverage
  • The first training pilot edition in 2007 was
    specifically designed for Central American region
    and the Caribbean
  • As of 2008 the course targets high-risk countries
    in the Americas, including South, North and
    Central America and the Caribbean
  • A pilot inter-regional training offer in English
    language will be launched in 2009 (blended
    modality from August to December)
  • Some institutions have already expressed their
    interest in tailor-made training offers in
    English, French and Spanish language (GTZ
    Pakistan, UNDP Haïti, Civil Protection Venezuela,
    CEPREDENAC/AECI Central America) this requests
    have to be further explored in year 2009

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Approach to the problem
  • The vulnerabilities of a territory are the
    product of cultural, social, economic, productive
    and environmental practices and of incorrect
    political decisions or administrative/institutiona
    l weaknesses that we perpetrate through our
    patterns of development.
  • The negative impact of disasters on local areas
    is determined by the fragility of the development
    process.
  • If we wish to achieve sustainability and
    harmonious development within an area, DRR must
    be tackled from the viewpoint of the practices
    that we implement in building our societies.
  • It must incorporate actions designed both to
    identify and reduce risks that build up over time
    and, as far as it is possible, to prevent the
    generation of new risks in present and future
    activities.

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Approach to the problem
  • Actions aiming to reduce the risk of disasters
    are processes in which strategic planning and
    local law-making, the appropriate use of local
    resources, the participation of key actors,
    prevention and alleviation activities, emergency
    preparations and management - and post-disaster
    rehabilitation and reconstruction must be studied
    as a whole and cannot be analysed as isolated and
    random factors within development processes.
  • The ITC/ILO Training Course emphasizes and
    examines each one of these aspects from a view of
    the whole and from a global perspective.

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Approach to the problem
SUSTAINABLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
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Key topics and training units
  • SUSTAINABLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
  • DISASTERS, RISKS AND LOCAL RISK REDUCTION
  • STRATEGIC PLANNING AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
  • PROJECT DESIGN WITH A RISK REDUCTION APPROACH
  • PREPARATION AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
  • RECONSTRUCTION FOR TRANSFORMATION

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Sustainable local development
  • Local development marks a different approach,
    representing an alternative form of national and
    regional development that marks a departure from
    traditional models.
  • It is based on a consideration of the area with
    its institutions, its resources, its values, its
    culture and its population but also its problems,
    weaknesses and potentials.
  • Endogenous local development is sustainable when
    it is possible to achieve a balance between the
    economic, political, social and environmental
    fields when policies reinforce all the elements
    in a balanced and joined-up manner.
  • The concept of territory can transcend a limited
    political or geographical space, a given
    municipality or a specific community.

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Disasters, risks and local risk reduction
  • The effects of disasters on people,
    infrastructures, productive systems and means of
    subsistence, ecosystems etc. may vary from
    community or neighbourhood level (small
    disasters), involve several communities
    (medium-sized disasters) or even affect great
    swathes of a country or region (large-scale
    disasters).
  • The causes and actors that determine a risk may
    have a very different territorial location, far
    away from the location where the disaster arises.
  • Risks may be natural, but disasters are not!
  • Local risk reduction is a process that must be
    led by local authorities and taken on board by
    all actors who play a part in territorial
    development.

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Local risk reduction what is it?
  • Raising of awareness and education about threats,
    vulnerabilities and risks
  • The summoning, coordination and organisation of
    key socio economic actors for local development
  • Political will and the commitment of competent
    local authorities and key actors to reducing
    disaster risk
  • The wholesale diagnosis of the territory in all
    fields/aspects of development and analyses of
    processes generating risk, the identification of
    responsible social actors and causes contributing
    to the construction of risk
  • An analysis of vulnerability and threat factors
    (evaluation of risk) existing within the
    territory and those that could arise due to new
    development actions
  • The identification and prioritisation of disaster
    risk reduction options and alternatives and the
    taking of decisions on more appropriate and
    realistic solutions in view of the existing
    context
  • Negotiations with the actors involved or affected
    both within the local environment and from other
    territorial levels
  • The processing of strategic plans, programmes and
    projects, management and generation of resources
    and allocation of responsibilities
  • The ongoing monitoring and evaluation of measures
    and solutions and of the environment and of the
    behaviour of risk factors
  • The appropriation, empowerment and training of
    key actors in local risk management.

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Local strategic planning and PCM
  • A systematic tool at the service of local
    development
  • A creative process for managing change and local
    development, through the identification and
    definition of needs, objectives and priorities
    that make it possible to design the best possible
    future for a given territory, community or
    society
  • The main aim of SP is to ensure that a given
    social environment is able to benefit maximally
    from its opportunities and capabilities,
    neutralise threats (internal and external), use
    strengths in its favour and overcome weaknesses
  • Based on the Logical Framework Approach and
    integrated by the Project Cycle Management
  • It implies the participation of local
    stakeholders and the definition of long term
    objectives.

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Preparation and emergency management
  • Reduce the adverse effects of the risk by
    eliminating vulnerable points in the management
    of disasters through plans for evacuation,
    allocation of responsibilities, coordination of
    activities, creation of local capabilities,
    allocation of the necessary methods and
    resources, etc.
  • Provide early warning systems so that the
    population is able to take action and protect
    itself against an imminent danger
  • Apply effective and opportune measures through an
    active and continuous process with a global plan
    for managing the response and the emergency that
    is subject to ongoing review and updating
  • Ensure the opportune, appropriate and effective
    distribution of humanitarian aid and assistance
  • Envisage exit strategies that make it possible to
    move on from the stage of the emergency and
    humanitarian aid as quickly as possible to the
    stage of post-disaster recovery.

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Reconstruction towards more sustainable
development
  • Reconstruction must form part of the development
    and disaster risk reduction policies that are
    implemented in an ongoing manner within the
    society and must anticipate, plan and reinforce
    the use of resources and capabilities that are
    endogenous to the communities.
  • Local actors must also have the following in
    readiness resource development and management
    plans, investment projects and an appropriate
    organisation that establishes the
    responsibilities of the parties involved in
    post-disaster processes.
  • Effective reconstruction and effective
    development are based on the same basic
    principles.
  • Local authorities and actors can take advantage
    of post-disaster reconstruction as a window of
    opportunity and one of the best times to get rid
    of bad development practices and introduce the
    topic of disaster risk reduction in territorial
    planning, for promoting proactive and ongoing
    strategies to consolidate safer and more
    sustainable societies.

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The training experience in Latin American
Key achievements in the region
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The training experience in Latin American
2007
2008
  • Second open edition for the Americas Field
    Activity in Dominican Republic
  • 55 participants/institutions trained
  • 6 Training Units (distance learning and face to
    face)
  • 3 Handbooks (Participants handbook, Theoretical
    framework, Project design for SLD with DRR and
    CCA approach)
  • 1 Working Paper (former participants projects
    implemented in the field)
  • Pilot initiative for Central America and the
    Caribbean
  • Field activity in Nicaragua
  • 25 participants/institutions trained
  • 4 Training Units (distance learning and face to
    face)
  • 2 Handbooks (Participants handbook and
    Theoretical framework)
  • 2 Journals (Delnet and ISDR insight on the course)

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The training experience in Latin American
  • Participation in ISDR Regional Platform on Urban
    Risk (Feb 2008)
  • GIS for Strategic Planning (included into the
    on-going course year 2008 and to be developed
    through new activities in 2009) with UNOSAT and
    ISDR Americas
  • Workshop with local authorities associations in
    partnership with FEMICA and ISDR Americas (Feb
    2008) to detect concrete needs of Central
    American local governments and to set-up together
    a capacity building strategy on SLD and DRR
  • Participation in the 14th Central American
    Network on Decentralisation and Strengthening of
    Municipal Administration (Guatemala, Sept 2008)
  • Network of multiplier agents and focal points for
    training and capacity building at the local
    level peer group of former participants for
    content validation, focal points in the field,
    bridges to high-risk and difficult target
    countries, etc.
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