1. Surakshit samudaya:
AAN-DIPECHO project towards Building Safer
Communities through Disaster Management
Supported by European Commission through its Humanitarian Aid department
AAN -Dipecho project successfully completed the Training of Trainers
workshop on Participatory Vulnerability Analysis, paving way for
improving competencies of the project team members to facilitate the disaster
preparedness initiative in the field and ensure that project objectives are
achieves with success and efficiency. This training workshop is a part of the
series of capacity building initiatives planned under the AAN-DIPECHO project
titled Surakshit Samudaya; Building Safer communities through
disaster management being implemented in five districts of Nepal. The
project is supported by European Commission through its Humanitarian
Organised by: Women & child Development Forum (WCDF), Makawanpur
Aid department and implemented by AAN partners in the districts of
ToT on Participatory Vulnerability Analysis
Makawanpur, Rupandehi, Sarlahi, Sunsari and Udayapur.
Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) is one of the most effective,
powerful and dynamic tools applied to understand and analyze disaster
vulnerabilities through a community based, participatory approach. While
opening the eyes of the disaster vulnerable communities to the root causes of
their conditions, PVA also motivates the people to think in terms of reducing
their vulnerabilities through capacity enhancement. Thus, for any organization
interested or working in disaster preparedness, understanding PVA and how to
apply PVA in the grassroots is an essential pre-requisite.
The Training of Trainers workshop on PVA was
6-9 January 2008, Hetauda
conducted for the field mobilizers, project support
officers and selected volunteers of AAN-DIPECHO
project in Nepal. The workshop was held during 6-9
January 2008 in Hotel Seema in Hetauda, organized
by our partner Women and Child Development
Forum. There were 28 participants and the lead
facilitator was Mr. Ramprasad Bhattarai, an
experienced facilitator in disaster management.
Workshop Objective
• Share what we know and don’t know about
vulnerability
• Understand the basic principles of PVA
• Aware the applicability of PVA in the context of
disaster and beyond
• Learn and think about vulnerability and how this
can be analysed effectively, and
REPORT
• Aware on the purpose of it for the preparation of
TRAINING
action plan to fight against vulnerability situation
Training Methodology
The workshop followed a range of methodologies including lecture, group
work, group discussions, case studies, field demonstrations and individual
exercises. Overall, it was ensured that there will be high level of participation
among the participants, giving scope for mutual learning, experience sharing
and creative approaches to problem solving.

2. Surakshit samudaya:
Building safer communities through
Disaster Management
PVA ToT Report: Page 2
Participants
Yash Subba, UPCA Panchhu Chaudhury, NPSSP Shubanarayan Choudhury, NPSSP
Yashoda Regmi, WCDF Anju Ghimire, NPSSP Ram Singhasan Ram, PRERANA
Rejandra Dimal, UPCA Sarwan Chaudhury, NPSSP Hem Kr. Thapa, FSCN
Prerana Sakhya, FOCUS Pushpa K. Mishra, PRERANA Ramesh Paudyal, FSCN
Humanitarian aid goes Yagya Gaire, FSCN Md. Fahimuddin, PRERANA Kabita Adhikari, WCDF
to those in greatest
need, governed by the Bhaktiraj Sharma, UPCA Prabha Chaudhury, NPSSP Suresh Raut, PRERANA
key principles of
humanity, impartiality Sarita Subba, UPCA Bhuvaneshwar Sahu, UPCA Rupendra Basnet, WCDF
and neutrality
KK Biswokarma, WCDF Nirmala Chaudhury, CDP Dinesh Singh, AAN
Chandra Thapa, CDP Tukumaya Syangtan, WCDF Ashok Raj Pokhrel, AAN
Jhabindra Thapa, FSCN Sabita Sakhya, FSCN Md. Aktar Raja Mansur, PRERANA
Principles of PVA
• PVA acts as an active agency that poor
PVA Application Process
people can and involve in finding the
solutions to the problems they face
Step 1: Situation Analysis
• It is not an end in itself; it should result
Prevalence/extent of vulnerability
in action and change for the better How different people are able to
• The sources of vulnerability and cope
solutions to vulnerability are located or Analyse present threats/
controlled outside the community, so it vulnerabilities
needs a multi-level process.
Step 2: Analysing causes
Identification of causes/root causes
Project Area: PVA is a systematic process that Prioritisation
Rupandehi
Makawanpur empowers communities to understand
Step 3: Analysis of community
Sarlahi their own situation of vulnerabilities and
Sunsari actions
Udayapur take active measures. At the core of PVA Establish the existing strategies,
lies the local knowledge and capacities of resources and assets used to reduce
Partner NGOs:
FSCN
the people to articulate, identify and vulnerability
NPSSP develop plans for their situations of External assistance used to reduce
PRERANA vulnerabilities. It involves communities vulnerability
UPCA
WCDF and other stakeholders in an in-depth Step 4: Drawing actions from
examination of their vulnerability, and at analysis
Beneficiaries:
135,000 the same time empowers or motivates Prioritise broad interventions
them to take appropriate actions. The Action plans including dates and
Budget:
Euro 348285
overall aim of PVA is to link disaster responsibilities
preparedness and response to long-term Scenario planning
Start Date: development.
01 Nov 2007
Duration: Evaluation and Conclusion
15 months
For more details The evaluation of the workshop showed that the participants were highly satisfied
Contact:
ActionAid Nepal
with the contents, materials, delivery and management of the training of trainers
Ph: 01-4436477 workshop. The participants felt that the intended objective of the workshop has
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been achieved, with the training curriculum that balanced both theoretical
mail.nepal@actionaid.org understanding of disaster vulnerability to practical application of the PVA process.