The annual Steering Committee Meeting for the Regional Resilience Initiative (RRI) was held in Bangkok on 26 April 2016. The objective of the meeting was to review the second year of implementation of the initiative and to discuss among partners the proposed Work Plan for the third year of the project. | See agenda and participant list.

As per the initiative agreement, the roles and responsibilities are :

Project Steering Committee: The project is directed by a Project Steering Committee comprising the Canadian Government representative (from Global Affairs Canada), Canadian Red Cross Senior Manager for Asia Programs, the IFRC Head of Bangkok Country Cluster Support Team, the Southeast Asia National Societies’ Community Safety and Resilience Forum’s (CSRF) representative. It meets annually to oversee the project’s strategy, provide overall guidance, approve annual work plan and budget, facilitate learning, and ensure coherence with participating agencies’ objectives. A participatory annual planning process involving key stakeholders informs annual plans and budgets.

The meeting welcomed the progress made with the implementation of the initiative across the areas of support and the targeted countries. The meeting further agreed to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation of the plans as well as to deepen the linkages with the ASEAN Secretariat. See the full minute of the meeting.

Below are presentations delivered during the meeting:

• Overview of project achievements from annual work plan year 2 – April 2015 to March 2016
• Overview of the third annual work plan year 3 – April 2016 to March 2017
• Canadian Red Cross in Asia

The meeting approved the below four technical  Work Plans covering the period April 2016 to March 2017:

• Humanitarian Diplomacy and Communications
• Disaster Law
• Gender and Diversity
• Community Safety and Resilience

The documents were produced based on the in-country plans received from 9 National Societies in Southeast Asia as well as technical dialogue between related IFRC and National Societies’ focal points. They are contributing to the IFRC Bangkok Country Cluster Support Team 2016 Operational Plan [link to FedNet].

About Regional Resilience Initiative (RRI) 

For more info, see the page on the recent RRI retreat.