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UNDP Sub-Regional Facility (SRF) organized a workshop for UNCT in Jordan on Resilience-Based Development Approach (RBDA) in June 2014, with the purpose of introducing RBDA that contributes to long-term development with an eye on potential threatening shocks and crises, current and future and discuss how to operationalize it in the context of Jordan to improve UNCT’s responses collectively.
With attendance of various UN agencies from both humanitarian and development fields, the workshop started with the presentation to understand and share the concept of RBDA and its guiding principles, followed by introduction of examples of operationalizing RBD. Several exercises were conducted to demonstrate possible responses using RBDA using Gender-Based Violence, and to analyze planned activities under National Response Plan against RBDA. And come up with outcomes these activities would bring and how it can be scaled up in the future, in ‘cope/ recover/sustain and transform’ categories.
At the heart of the RBDA is that we do not just respond to humanitarian crises with an eye to the long term, but we also pursue long-term development with an eye of potential threatening shocks and crises, current and future. It is suitable to respond to protracted Syrian crisis and for host countries in particular, and now there is a strong and urgent need for UNCT to ensure bridging between humanitarian and development effort in a holistic and collective. In the workshop, agencies shared their responses that applies RBDA, difficulties they found in implementation and different tools to measure vulnerabilities and resilience. It was agreed among participants that ‘resilience’ building cannot be done by single agency or single project and that we need to bring about innovative partnerships. UNDP SRF will be taking lead in gathering existing tools, analyze and create collective tool for UNCT, and in coordinating such workshops at country level and regional level and create new knowledge.
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Some societies are more disaster prone than others due to their geographic location and the benefits provided by it. Man has co-existed in this sort of high risk/high return relationship with mother nature throughout history. Poorer societies tend to pay a higher price both in lives taken and damage – left with many secondary and equally devastating disasters that are sure to come. We know that for every $1 USD put into preventative measures, we save ~$7 that would have gone into post-disaster recovery and rebuilding efforts. There are many international agencies working to support a variety of needs in these grief stricken areas to help them build capacity and to help these societies better prepare for and respond to the disasters they will face. These efforts are guided by the Millennium Project Goals outlined in 2000. A lot has changed since then with respect to technology, mobile devices and humanitarianism. The objective of this paper is exploit how current efforts are creating capacity on the individual, organizational and 'enabling environment' levels. This paper explores the notion that a more concerted effort can be made at building Information and Communication Disaster Management Capacity in developing countries who are most susceptible due to proximity and to a lack of funds. A 'proof of concept' is provided
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Rebecca Barber - Learning from Humanitarian Response in SE Asia
1. Issues in Humanitarian Response in
Asia Pacific
Rebecca Barber
Humanitarian Policy Advisor
Save the Children
2. Outline
• Disaster Risk in Asia
Pacific
• Regional trends
• Requests for
international
assistance
• Case Studies: Thailand and Cambodia 2011
flood response; Philippines
3. Disaster risk in Asia Pacific
• The most disaster-prone region in the world.
• Greatest number of disasters: 45% of all
reported disasters between 1980-2009.
• Greatest number affected: Over the past
decade, accounted for 90% of people affected
annually by natural disasters globally
• Numbers increasing due to climate change
4. Regional Trends
• Economic growth
• But ↑ in economic & human disaster risk
exposure, outpacing economic growth.
• ↑ in national disaster management capacities
• But ↑ capacity not keeping pace with ↑ risk;
still a need for international assistance.
• Shift in regional attitudes: assertion of national
disaster management capacities; few formal
requests for international assistance
5. UN GA Res 46/182 on the Strengthening of the
Coordination of the Humanitarian Emergency
Assistance of the UN
“Humanitarian assistance should be provided
with the consent of the affected country and in
principle on the basis of an appeal by the
affected country.
…
The UN… should ensure the … delivery of relief
assistance in full respect of the above
mentioned principles…”
6. Thailand/Cambodia Floods 2011
• Assistance welcomed but not requested
• But this didn’t amount to an ‘appeal’ as
understood by Res 46/182:
“The Thai Government said that they
welcome assistance but many agencies do not
work that way.’
• Gave rise to frustration:
“There was a sense that our hands were tied,
that we could only do so much.”
7. Thailand/Cambodia Floods 2011
Thailand
•Informal activation of the HCT (‘purposefully
adopted a low-key approach’) and clusters.
•Useful, slow to get started.
Cambodia
•International actors looked to NCDM to take the
lead - NCDM declined due in part to absence of
formal appeal for assistance.
•Financing affected
8. Philippines: Tropical Storm Washi and
Typhoon Bopha
• Formal acceptance
of international
assistance
• Activation of HCT
and clusters
• Appeals launched
• Generally regarded as a well-coordinated
response with strong government leadership
9. What distinguishes the
Philippines?
• Humanitarian
infrastructure
already there, no
need to consider
‘trigger’ for
activation
• No issue made of the lack of an ‘appeal’
• National government familiarity and ownership
of the international humanitarian architecture
10. In summary:
• Disaster management capacities in Asia ↑, but so
is disaster risk; still a place for international
assistance
• Key components of the humanitarian system out
of date: assume a generalised appeal for
assistance, and that international actors will take
the lead
• Need for ‘localisation’ of the humanitarian toolkit
by recognising national government capacities
and leadership - Philippines a positive example