2. Why do we need to be inclusive in Myanmar?
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3. Consortium Approach
Technical vs Implementing partner
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Oxfam – Women-led DRR, women’s leadership
Plan – SBDRR, child-centred DRR
UN Habitat – earthquake risk assessment,
strengthening institutional mechanisms
HelpAge – Working with older people
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4. Integrating an Inclusive approach
to CBDRR at all levels
1. Community level
2. Township level
3. State and
Regional level
4. National level
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5. Community Level Inclusive Steps
• Inclusive CBDRR
training
• Assessments (PVAs,
HCVAs etc.)
• Forming VDMC and
Task Forces
• Making Simulations
Exercises Inclusive
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9. Community level pilots to further learning on
individual topics
• School Based DRR
• Women’s
Leadership
training
• Inclusive VDMC
formation
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10. Township Level Inclusive Steps
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Township Disaster Management Plans (TDMPs)
Passing on village DRR Action Plans to TDMCs
Inclusive CBDRR training for government staff
Gender Equality Training for government staff
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11. State and Regional Inclusive Steps
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Hosting State level meetings in all 14 States
introducing concepts of inclusiveness
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12. National Level Inclusive Steps
• Inclusive Policy Review
• Standing Order and DM law
• Training for local NGOs on
Inclusive approaches
• Inclusive CBDRR Training
Pack and TOT
• Including women in
Carpenters Training
• Earthquake Risk AwarenessRaising Toolkit
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13. Lessons Learnt
• The principle of inclusiveness must be mainstreamed
throughout the programme and not just the community
level work
• Dedicated technical experts for each specialty
• Qualitative and Quantitative tools are needed for field
staff to ensure inclusiveness
• Technical partners need to empower and equip the
other partners with the skills to implement their own
fully inclusive approach
• More work to be done linking national level
advancements to lower administrative levels
• Inclusive targets need to be supported at every stage
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Editor's Notes
Tell the story of our ConsortiumInclusiveness is at our core, it is the guiding principle of our workWhy this approach is needed in MyanmarTalk a little bit about our design and how this supports and informs our workSpecific examples of our work on inclusiveness including successes and areas of improvment
Describe the social and cultural context in Myanmar which ultimately informs and guides our workDisability: despiteaglobal PWD average of 15%, a recent survey in Myanmar found that only 2% of community members had a disability, highlighting a very serious problem of visibility and understandingWomen’s Rights: Social and cultural norms that entrench patriarchy and the privileged male position, and hold women to be inferior in many aspects of life are deeply internalised, amongst both men and women in Myanmar; 91% of respondents in our project areas stated that men are better able than women to ‘manage’ communities during disasters; Older people: Older people are not listed as a vulnerable group in most DRR programmes. There is often stigma attached to older people that they are weak and useless (resulting in their needs, rights and contributions being neglected). However, elderly have shown the capacity to be enormously resilient and can highly contribute to historical analysis, hazard analysis and climate change analysis. Furthermore, many older people have become focal persons to receive and disseminate information about early warnings.Young people and children: children and young people are excluded from almost all community decision making processes; between 80% and 90% of community members in project areas thought that children do not have much to contribute in disaster preparedness processes
Talk about the consortium partners and what specialties they bring
Core of the inclusiveness design to our Consortium was to ensure integration at every level from the community, through the lower administrative levels (village tract – township) to state and then national.
Training central to the project’s design:First step was to ensure all staff, volunteers, community mobilisers and community members had gone through a rigorous inclusive CBDRR training. This training was delivered at national level through ToTs and then to each village over a course of a few months. Our learning from this process was that if we invested in the quality of the training the outcome was significantly better. For instance in AA we used a mixture of fellows and community mobilisers. Each of our fellows have been through a year’s training on many topics including gender sensitive programming, HRBA etc. and their ability to mainstream the theory of inclusiveness was markedly better than the community mobilisers who had only received 2 – 3 weeks training.
Inclusive Training
Getting young people involved in the simulation and first aid training
Conducting school based simulations
Hosted a State level workshop in all 14 StatesThis was our first opportunity to introduce some of the most basic concepts of DRR and CCA but also inclusiveness. These were a vital advocacy opportunity for the Consortium in areas which have been neglected and wil be the foundations for future CBDRR roll-out
