This document outlines a project to build disaster resilience at the district level in Bima City, Thailand. It describes the project's logic model, sites and partners. It discusses Bima City's hazards profile and lack of disaster management instruments. The project interventions included capacity building for disaster risk reduction instruments and forums, as well as empowering community advocacy. Achievements included completed risk analysis, management plans and regulations, while challenges included staff turnover. Lessons learned stressed ensuring government ownership for sustainability.

1. DISTRICT LEVEL DRR ADVOCACY
in bima city
Thailand, 13-14 November 2013

2. Presentation Outline
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Project Description (Logic Model)
Project Sites and Partners
Bima City Profile
Project Intervention at District Level
Project Achievement
Challenges
Lesson Learned
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3. Logic Model of Building and
Deepening Resilience (BDR) Project
BUILDING & DEEPENING
DISTRICT RESILIENCE
PROBLEM:
PROBLEM:
Disaster && Climate
Disaster Climate
Hazards: Disasters
Hazards: Disasters
are increasing with
are increasing with
big localized impact
big localized impact
DRR Reform
DRR Reform
Challenges:
Challenges:
1.Lack DRR
1.Lack DRR
instruments
instruments
2.Lack of Capacity of
2.Lack of Capacity of
DM organization
DM organization
3.The absence of
3.The absence of
effective local DRR
effective local DRR
platforms
platforms
1.Capacity Building & Technical
Assistance for DRR Instruments
(Development/Finalization/Early
Implementation)
2.District, Province/Island, National
linkage
3.Development of Private Sector
Engagement on DM Directory
BUILDING & DEEPENING
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
1.Capacity Building & Technical
Assistance for village level DRR
instruments (VPRT, EWS, etc)
2.Community empowerment on
Advocacy
WOMEN LEADERSHIP
STRENGTEHING
1.Capacity building
2.Women Action Plans
RESULT 1
DISTRICT
RESILIENCE
PROJECT GOAL
Building and Deepening
Resilience of Local
Communities and
Institutions to Disasters
and Climate Change in
Eastern Indonesia
RESULT 2
COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE
RESULT 3
Strengthened women’s
leadership in DRR at all levels
and experiences utilized to
influence national policies and
approaches
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4. Project Sites and Partners
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5. Bima City Profile
• Hazards: flood, landslide, earthquake, tsunami, and
cyclone
• The Disaster Management (DM) Instruments, e.g. policy,
plan, budget, are not available yet
• The City Disaster Management Agency (CDMA) is still
new and has limited capacity
• A multi stakeholders forum for collective actions is not
yet available
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6. Project Intervention at District Level
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7. Strategy of DRR Instruments
Development
• Promote and strengthen the role of CDMA through joint
planning (and budget) and implementation
• Develop a DRR Forum to support the works of CDMA, the
Forum is composed of multi stakeholders (government, NGO,
journalists, community representatives, academia)
• Ensure the engagement of CDMA and Forum to gain inter
agency support, e.g. city parliament for legislation support,
city asset management agency for funding allocation support,
city law unit for legal drafting support, city development
planning board for DRR mainstreaming in development
support
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8. Strategy of DRR Instruments
Development (continue)
• Official distribution of tasks among the authorized agencies
for leading DRR instruments development, city development
planning board for Risk Analysis and DM Plan, city law unit for
DM Regulation, law school for academic paper
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9. Project Achievements
• DM instruments have been completed (Risk Analysis,
DM Plan, Contingency Plan, DM Regulation)
• DM regulation draft is listed on the city parliament
program of the FY 2014
• DRR is being 1 out of 11 priorities in the City Mid-term
Development Plan 2013-2018
• Increased CDMA’s DRR-related budget allocation in the
city budget revision of the FY 2013
• Increased CDMA’s DRR-related budget allocation in the
city budget of 2014
• Acknowledgement of the CDMA by the City Mayor
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10. Project Challenges
• Staff turn over at city government agencies
• Missed understanding among stakeholders on the role of
the DRR Forum at the initial phase of DRR Forum
development
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11. Lessons Learned
• The DM Instruments belong to the city government, thus
the ownership by the government should be ensured for
the sustainability of DRR works. We collaborated with
CDMA, other authorized agencies, and relevant
stakeholders since the planning phase of the DM
instruments development. It took time but the results are
feasible, thus this strategy should be promoted and
replicated in the future DRR programs.
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