Building preparedness of vulnerable communities through inclusive disaster risk reduction initiatives (IDR-2)

Project Goal:

The goal of the project is to contribute to preparing communities to better withstand reoccurring natural disasters. The project will build on learning from the existing project to focus on basic disaster preparedness techniques as well as encouraging community structures and livelihoods which contribute to building disaster ready communities. In doing so communities will be able to better anticipate, respond to and recover from the negative impact of recurrent natural hazards.

Financial support:

Margaret A Cargill Foundation (MACF), US

Project Start Date:

July 1, 2017

Project End Date:

June 30, 2019

Project implementation by:

Under the overall management by HelpAge International APRO, the project is being implemented by HelpAge International in Nepal and HelpAge International in Bangladesh in collaboration with local partners BITA (Bangladesh Institute of theatre Arts).

Project coverage:

The project will target 30 local communities (30 Community Disaster Management Committees (CDMCs) (10 new and 20 old) as well as 3 union disaster management committees (UDMC) in Bangladesh Ramgati Upazila, Lakshmipur.

Outcome 1 :

The capacity of target communities including older women and men and people with disabilities have been strengthened to reduce the negative impact of disasters caused by natural hazards ensuring their capacities and needs are reflected and addressed in disaster prepared livelihoods, inclusive disaster risk reduction plans, and disaster response actions

Outcome 2 :

Humanitarian actors including local, national and international NGOs, UN agencies, government and donors have knowledge, capacity and appropriate tools and plans to ensure age inclusive humanitarian responses

Outcome 3:

Disaster affected older women and men meet their age inclusive crucial needs, and also reduce lives lost by lower profile South Asian natural disasters

Outcome 4:

Knowledge management and systematic learning and sharing of age and gender Inclusive CBDRR has been improved for ensuring better quality of CBDRR programming within HelpAge and its network.