Concern Worldwide

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Concern Worldwides Approach to Disaster Risk
Reduction
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Concern Worldwide

• CONCERN Worldwide is an international
  humanitarian
• organization dedicated to the reduction suffering
  and working
• towards the ultimate elimination of extreme
  poverty in the worlds
• poorest countries.
• Concern implements both emergency and long- term
• development interventions with poor communities
  in 30 of the
• worlds least developed countries.
• Concern Worldwide in Bangladesh is the part of
  CWW and is
• guided by its policies and principles.

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Concern and Disaster Risk Reduction

• On average 60,000 people are killed by natural
  disasters each year and 250 million people are
  directly affected.
• There is a strong link between poverty and
  vulnerability to the impact of hazards.
• The countries where Concern works are
  particularly prone to hazards many of them
  cyclical and of regular occurrence.
• The organizational Strategic Plan for 2006-2011
  has highlighted the centrality of DRR to
  Concerns mission to contribute to the
  eradication of poverty
• In 2005, Concerns Emergency Unit prepared its
  Approaches to DRR paper.

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Disaster Risk Reduction

• DRR is essentially about managing risk
• Risk is defined as the frequency of an event
  happening and its impact
• Magnitude of an impact is related to
  vulnerability
• To reduce risk you need to reduce the frequency,
  scale or intensity of an event happening
• or reduce its impact

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DRR measures

• DRR measures seek to protect the assets and
  livelihoods of communities from the impact of
  hazards by implementing mitigation, preparedness
  and advocacy measures that are based on a
  comprehensive risk analysis.
• It is seen as key to underpin sustainability
  of long term development programme.
• .

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Explicit Link to Livelihoods

• Livelihoods model provides a framework where DRR
  can be seen as part of long-term sustainable
  development work
• DRR needs to be mainstreamed into concept notes,
  programme design, monitoring and evaluation
• Principles of DRR- Risk Assessment Risk
  Reduction

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Shocks Stresses inter-acting natural and
man-made hazards
                   
Sustainable Livelihood Options   Emergence of
new livelihood activities Broadening of
sources of food and income
 
 
 
The Six Capitals Human Social Political
Financial Physical Natural
Improved Livelihood Security
Wider Context Social Economic Political
Environmental



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Risk Assessment

• Risk Assessment are carried out to identify
  which hazards are more likely to occur and to
  have the biggest impact on a communitys or
  individuals assets.
• It has two distinct components
• Hazard Analysis
• Vulnerability Analysis

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Risk Reduction

• Preparedness activities seek to strengthen the
  capacity of
• communities to withstand, respond to and recover
  from the impact of hazard
• governments, implementing partners and Concern to
  establish speedy and appropriate interventions
  when the capacity of a community is overwhelmed
• Mitigation activities seek to reduce the
  frequency, scale, intensity and impact of hazards
• Advocacy seeks to favourably influence the
  social, political, economic and environmental
  issues that contribute to the causes and
  magnitude of hazards and their impacts

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DRR Strategy of Concern in Bangladesh

• Community-based initiatives for DRR in programme
  areas.
• Mainstreaming DRR measures with all development
  programmes.
• Enhance capacity of partners for effective and
  rapid response to emergencies.

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Community-based initiatives

• Interventions will focus on climate-change
  related hazards (flash floods, seasonal floods
  and tropical cyclones).
• Aligned to national PRSP and aims to strengthen
  the capacity of existing local government
  institutions, specifically Disaster Management
  Committees.
• Implemented through six local partner
  organizations.
• Provide micro-to-macro linkages.( for e.g.,
  strategic partnership agreement with CDMP)

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Mainstreaming DRR

• In all the projects, DRR has been considered
  during project design by identifying activities
  that will help to reduce risk from potential
  hazards.
• Examples of project includes Haor
  Livelihoods, Char Livelihood and Education. The
  examples of interventions are community based
  preparedness mitigation activities, contingency
  planning, training partners on DRR and emergency
  response, etc.

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Emergency Response

• Intervention envisages to enhance capacity of the
  partners for effective and rapid response
  through
• Emergency contingency plans.
• Organising trainings and workshops-need
  assessments, humanitarian practices, principles
  and standards and DRR approaches.
• Facilitate partners to collaborate with the local
  DMCs for any emergency response.
• Technical support, mentoring and monitoring
  during emergency response
• Establish information systems on DMC functioning.