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| Social Determinants of Disaster Risk Reduction « Programmes |
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| Social Determinants of Disaster Risk Reduction |
| In Gujarat, five day training on The Concept and Method of Housing Vulnerability Framework was organised at Unnati rural training centre Bhachau. A framework for assessing vulnerability of housing was developed based on the action research done in multi hazard affected villages of Porbandar district. In this training there were 16 participants from nine NGOs and technical organisations in Gujarat. The training was conducted by People In Centre Consulting with help of key resource persons such as Prof. Sanjay Chikarmnae from IIT Bombay, Mr. Rajendra Desai from NCPEDP Ahmedabad and Mr. Kiran Vaghela of Hunnarshala Kutchch. Village level exercise was done at the Vandh village of Bhachau taluka. Participants conducted vulnerability assessment exercise with the house owners. |
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The Inter Agency Group has been restarted in Gujarat and the secretariat is based at Unnati. Two State level coordination meetings have been held in the state during December 2011 and February 2012. Currently we are in the process of assessing and reviewing the safety standards followed in indira Awas Yojna and disaster management plans for updating the guidelines. This year’s learning cycle of partners supported by Cordaid in DRR was held at Puri, Odisha during February 14- 22, 2012. Input sessions were also conducted on climate change and its implication on disaster management and DRR and eco system based basin approach for flood and drought mitigation.
In Rajasthan, after completing four years of intervention for strengthening DRR in desert areas of Rajasthan, from January 2012, we have initiated community level resilience building for drought risk reduction in 25 villages of five blocks of Jodhpur and Barmer districts. At present the planning process has been initiated in 10 villages. Select health volunteers participated in a two days drawshop on design material that they could use for awareness generation on women’s and girls health in their villages. As part of an initiative to develop women masons in collaboration with Development Alternatives and Department Of Science and Technology, 12 women in Chava village of Barmer district participated in two rounds of training through a 36 day module. The learning is experiential and is done by constructing a room. The women were also taken for an exposure visit to Kutchch region of Gujarat to gain understanding on alternate roofing technology.
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