The powerpoint presentation was delivered in AHA Center of Excellence (ACE) Programme in 2015, to the members of National Disaster Management Offices of ASEAN State members. AHA Center stands for ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance.
The powerpoint covers the basics of livelihoods: the definition, livelihoods assets and resources, programmes, strategies, outcomes and framework.
Overview:
The powerpoint presentation aims to:
Offer understanding of what livelihoods are (by identifying the livelihoods’ assets and resources, as well as establishing a shared understanding of livelihood concepts, associated terminology and frameworks.
Explain the overview of the Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF).
Explain why and when provide support to livelihoods.
Describe that livelihood programmes can be implemented as part of relief, recovery and developmental programming aims.
Classify different livelihoods programmes into 5 commonly used categories.
The ‘Toolkit’ is targeted at practitioners responsible for implementing recovery programmes, their objective to provide a ‘how to’ guide on development, implementing and managing complex post-disaster recovery programmes. It has been developed by the Tsunami Global Lessons Learned Project Steering Committee (TGLLP-SC) in partnership with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC).
Overview:
Ten years have passed since the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami of December 2004. With a view to gathering, learning and sharing from experiences of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami, and other disasters in the region that occurred between 1993 and 2013, the Tsunami Global Lessons Learned Project (TGLLP) was created. The project sought to deliver three principle outcomes: a global lessons learned study, a Discovery Channel documentary tracking the recovery, and a disaster recovery toolkit for recovery practitioners.
The TGLLP Disaster Recovery Toolkit contains six books that can be downloaded here:
The guidance aims to strengthen the results of disaster response by promoting a common approach to recovery amongst National Societies and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It is hoped that this will strengthen programme quality. The desired result is that communities will be enabled to build more resilient lives as quickly as possible after disaster and crisis.
There are various situations in which thinking about recovery is important. They fall into the following three categories:
early recovery planning alongside the initial relief response
recovery at the point when communities begin to get back on their feet following disaster and crisis
recovery as part of contingency planning and disaster preparedness activities.
Overview:
Section 1: Introduction – This provides the rationale for the guidance and the main references.
Section 2: Understanding the approach to recovery programming – This provides the theoretical background and definitions linked to recovery and IFRC ways of working. It describes the recovery programming approach and explains how recovery is linked to disaster management, including relief and longer-term programming. It also explains Red Cross Red Crescent Movement added value in recovery programming.
Section 3: Key strategic issues to make for recovery programming – This provides a summary of nine key strategic issues that need to be considered when developing or updating an operational strategy considering recovery. These are: 1. framing programming within the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement 2. ensuring the programme strengthens resilience 3. building on systematic and ongoing assessment and analysis 4. ensuring integrated or multi-sectoral programming 5. considering cross-cutting issues 6. making use of innovative approaches such as cash transfers and market support programming 7. building strong coordination both within and outside the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement 8. securing sufficient and realistic resources 9. building on or contributing to the National Societies’ own development.
Section 4: Practical application of the recovery approach to the programme cycle – This provides guidance on how to include recovery-related components into the programme cycle when designing a recovery programme that can be included in a disaster response PoA. This includes: • assessing and analysing recovery needs through a detailed assessment • situation analysis and response options analysis • planning and designing the recovery programme • planning monitoring and evaluation of the recovery programme • implementation-specific issues to be aware of, including transition and exit.
Annexes: IFRC Recovery guidance annexes – This provides useful reference tools and further details of topics covered in the main text such as integrated programing, considering cross-cutting issues and deciding on cash transfer options. It includes both a comprehensive checklist for ensuring the recovery approach is being applied throughout the planning stages and an in-depth assessment checklist.
This guide first looks at what recovery and recovery communications entail. It then sets out three rules for recovery communication, the principles for recovery communications, and psychological and practical challenges to communication. The guide also looks at methods of communication, their strengths, limitations and situations to which each method is best suited.
Overview
Chapter 3 focuses on inclusive communications to address gender in recovery, as well as targeting diverse social groups including children, the elderly, those with physical or learning difficulties, and religious and cultural groups.
Additional resources in Chapter 4 cover issues such as dealing with the media, how to write a media release, how to advocate for forgotten emergencies, and monitoring and evaluating communications.
The three rules for recovery communication are: is it relevant; is it clear; and is it targeted? Methods of communication include: community meetings; face to face; word of mouth; pamphlets/flyers/ brochures/fact sheets; print newsletters; email newsletters; notice boards; posters/billboards; local newspapers; radio; SMS mail-outs; websites; blogs; video communication; and social media.
Usage: Guidance for project implementation
Audience: Communication staff
Reference: Australian Red Cross. (2013). Communicating in recovery. First edition published by Australian Red Cross (2010). Pp.1-69. Available from: http://www.redcross.org.au/files/Communicating_in_recovery_resource.pdf[Accessed: 19th September 2015].
This is a story of four women who lived through cyclone Sidr which hit the southern part of Bangladesh on November 15, 2007. It is the story of their vulnerability, their loss and survival.
Overview
When warnings of the cyclone were announced some people did not hear them because they did not have access to radios or mobile phones. Some refused to believe that there would be a cyclone.
The women lost a lot from the cyclone; their children and their houses and property. They faced many challenges, including finding shelter and food for themselves and their families. When they did find a shelter, it was overcrowded and this too presented certain challenges.
With great resilience, these women have been able to rebuild their lives. Many of the challenges they and women like them face are being tackled by the government, the World Bank and local NGOs. A few courses on women’s specific needs during disasters have been held in some high-risk coastal regions.
Training is just one part of disaster preparedness. From improving transportation to shelters, and developing their infrastructure and management, a wide range of women’s needs must be addressed. Until they are, the future remains uncertain.
This guidance note looks at the causes, risks and impacts of gender-based violence during emergencies. It offers suggestions for how Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies might plan for gender-based violence in emergency response.
Overview
Programmes that include gender respond better to the different needs and experiences of men and women. They also acknowledge the issues and structures that can result in women being disadvantaged and disempowered.
It is the programme coordinator and/or team leader’s responsibility to report on and plan for gender-sensitive strategies and to develop an understanding of gender-based violence. Gender mainstreaming responsibilities should be included in the position descriptions of all team members.
Suggestions for including gender-based violence considerations into emergency response include: 1) do a gender analysis; 2) respond to gender-based violence in emergencies; and 3) include gender and violence prevention in recovery.
Usage: Guidance for project implementation
Audiences: Technical staff, volunteers, communications staff, National Society leadership
This guide provides standards and directions on how to carry out rapid needs assessment for Psychosocial Support (PSS) and Violence Prevention (VP) initiatives including child protection and sexual and gender-based violence.
In particular, this rapid assessment tool is designed to help gather data in an efficient and effective way to help inform integration of PSS and VP issues, as minimum standards, into the broader disaster management action plans in response to an emergency.
Overview
Part 1 of the guide looks at setting up an assessment. This includes issues such as: standards; ethical guidelines for conducting an assessment (do no harm); ethical guidelines for conducting assessments with children; the approach; and forming an assessment team.
Part 2 deals with focus group discussions / questions for qualitative data collection: why it is important; and specific detailed questions for greater depth.
Part 3 looks at the situation/context questionnaire: why it is important; questions on physical layout of the community; questions on community leadership structure; overview of violence; questions on reports of violence; and reporting/referrals.
Part 4 is an environmental walk-around: an examination of the community/camp from which data is being collected from the perspective of the assessment team.
Part 5 deals with the internal questionnaire for leadership of the National Society; and
Part 6 looks at the importance of analysis checklists.
This advocacy report encourages making the prevention of interpersonal and self-directed violence a priority within the International Federation’s response to disasters. It highlights why and how interpersonal and self-directed violence during and after disasters is a predictable and preventable problem and the actions the International Federation and its partner agencies should take to have a more engaged role in addressing them.
Overview
In disaster after disaster, the risk of interpersonal and self-directed violence increases from a combination of factors. Factors include the collapse of protective systems, increased individual and community stress, individuals relying on harmful coping mechanisms such as alcohol and drugs, and crowded and insecure environments.
Although anyone can be vulnerable to violence, people with pre-existing vulnerabilities to violence, such as children, women and others who are marginalised, are at particular risk.
Although the problem of violence in disasters is complex, it is not inevitable. Violence can be prevented. The risk of violence needs to be addressed through a public health approach that is part of all programming sectors in a disaster.
Best practices exist and can be implemented across the disaster management cycle.
Usage: Guidance for project implementation
Audiences: National Society leadership;Technical staff; Gender and diversity practitioners
Reference: Canadian Red Cross and IFRC (2012). Predictable, Preventable: Best Practices for Addressing Interpersonal and Self-Directed Violence during and after Disasters. Pp. 1-32. Available from: http://www.ifrc.org/PageFiles/94522/ViolenceInDisasters-English-1up.pdf [Accessed: 18th July 2016].
This document offers technical guidance for disability-inclusive shelter and settlement support in emergencies. Developed by IFRC, Handicap International and CBM, it draws upon guidelines from these and other institutions, relevant national and international standards, and the expertise of practitioners.
It aims to be a key reference for planning and implementation of shelter and settlements projects to ensure fully inclusive humanitarian action.
It includes case studies from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa.
Overview
Some barriers that prevent participation and equal opportunities for people with disabilities include physical, informational, organisational barriers and attitudes or stigma. Pre-existing barriers can be compounded by crisis, while other barriers are created by an emergency and can result in new disabilities.
A checklist on preparedness can be found on pp. 36-37; emergency response, pp. 50-51; early recovery, pp. 64-65; standards for settlements, pp. 82-83; standards for shelter, pp. 98-99; emergency items distribution, pp. 112-113; inclusive beneficiary communications, pp. 130-131; and assisted self-settlement, p.139; and cash and vouchers for people with disabilities, pp. 152-153.
This document looks at urban risk reduction: examples of gender and diversity-based risks and vulnerabilities in urban areas; social and economic inequalities to consider in urban environments; migrants; disability; and examples of gender and diversity vulnerabilities in urban disaster response and recovery.
The paper also looks at Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in terms of key issues of GBV during and after disasters, and key action points for addressing GBV in Disaster Risk Reduction/Disaster Management (DRR/DM).
Overview
Examples of gender and diversity-based risks and vulnerabilities in urban areas include: services and infrastructure; access to information; gender-based opportunities; and lack of support networks.
Social and economic inequalities to consider in urban environments include: greater social and economic inequalities; women taking on many roles in urban environments; women having less ownership over resources; and greater societal restrictions on women.
Examples of gender and diversity vulnerabilities in urban disaster response and recovery include: personal security; food insecurity; economic and livelihood insecurity; education; and migrant status.
Purpose: Knowledge building
Usage: Learning from experience, Guidance for project implementation
Audiences: Technical staff; Gender and diversity practitioners
