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Road-map to community Resilience

In recent years, humanitarian needs have grown at an alarming rate. The number of people dependent on humanitarian assistance has more than tripled while the cost of responding has increased five-fold. Every source of evidence suggests that human and economic losses, particularly due to climate change, will only continue to grow. If we continue a business-as-usual approach of crisis and crisisresponse, we will not be able to manage the increasing scale of the challenges. We need a paradigm shift in the way we work with communities at risk – and to act preventively to reduce exposure, vulnerability and impact at local level.

Gender in community-based Risk Management

Integrating gender perspective in disaster risk management initiatives and programs has been recognized as a priority concern since women and men have varying vulnerabilities and are
affected by disasters differently. Lifting from the book “Integrating Gender in CBDRM”, it was noted that gender perspective is a cross-cutting principle of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2000 – 2015 on Building Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disaster, which states that:

“A gender perspective should be integrated into all disaster risk management policies, plans and decision making processes, including those related to risk assessment, early warning, information management and education and training.”

Communication Guidance for National Societies- the IFRC and community resilience

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has developed this paper to support Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers in their communication and advocacy on community resilience. The paper explains the IFRC’s definition of and approach to building community resilience, sets out key messages, and suggests how to communicate the rationale for promoting community resilience to a broad audience. The document draws on the IFRC’s Framework for Community. Resilience and the strategy behind the One Billion Coalition
for Resilience.

Framework for community safety and resilience

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) offers a major contribution to the building of safer, resilient communities. Central to this is the focus on communities and specifically communities that are at risk from regular and new disaster impacts. We know that we have been implementing DRR for some years now, but with the world becoming increasingly unsafe, it is important that we try to build on the foundations of previous endeavours and do more of what works and is effective. We also need to be more systematic in what we do as well as enhancing what we are doing to ensure that the basic objectives of safety and resilience are being addressed.

Cordaid 2020 Resilience localisation policy brief

Localisation and local leadership in development cooperation and humanitarian assistance aim to make development and humanitarian work more effective and relevant. Localisation ensures that those who are nearest to the crisis and those who are most affected, have the required prevention, preparedness and response capacity. This enables them to respond quickly and appropriately. Localisation therefore refers to transformative, structural changes at the local, national and international level to change the ‘who is in the lead’.