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Undertaking recovery to bring back the community to a better and safer level than pre-disaster stage. These goals bring home the point that those involved in disaster management recognize the paradigm shift in dealing with the issue. All stakeholders in this process now aim to address disaster management more holistically, treating it not just as one isolated event requiring quick and efficient response, but a process that entails serious overhaul at the preparedness and recovery phases, which are intermingled in many ways. Disaster recovery is a long-drawn process but paves way for disaster preparedness. The more prepared the community, more quick is its recovery in disaster aftermath. 1.3.4 Community and Community-Based Organizations The most crucial stakeholder is certainly the community. Their role is very important in post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction. Right from rehabilitation of physical and social infrastructure to final long-term recovery, community has to be a part of all major decision-making. The role of Community Based Disaster Management (CBDP) in rehabilitation is no less important, as it is through community involvement that all stages of disaster management are complete. CBDP in Post–Disaster Phase aims at: a) Undertaking a detailed damage assessment covering verified number of human lives, identification of victims (dead and alive), livestock, infrastructure and crops b) Drawing up a comprehensive economic rehabilitation plan that includes restoration of agricultural activity through necessary inputs, rehabilitation of artisans, marginal, small-scale and business people, replacement of cattle, agricultural and other equipment, boats, fishing nets, etc. c) Ensuring social rehabilitation through strengthening of existing health centres, schools, anganwadis, community centres, vocational training centres, psychological counselling to the affected to enable them to get back to their normal routine. Key ingredients of disaster management with a community perspective would be: Clearly defined and agreed criteria for the identification, selection and verification of the most deserving beneficiaries Emphasis on greater involvement and decision-making by women within the organization Priority for the weakest and most vulnerable people Strong local contribution Conscious focus on livelihood-based programme input. This would provide long-term and sustainable benefits to the community, and at the same time increase the commitment and feeling of solidarity between the community and the workers Right inputs to be given at the right time Source: Community/utahredcross.blogspot.com 23
Planned cooperation with all government and non-government agencies, where such collaboration adds value and increases the effectiveness of the NGOs Strategic planning and coordination to bring together forces and resources to achieve optimum results DID YOU KNOW? In 2008, NDRF embarked, in a big way upon the community capacity building and public awareness programmes in Bihar, which included training of vulnerable people and officials in various districts. NDRF carried out 3 day Flood Preparedness training programme in 15 vulnerable districts (Bhagalpur, East Champaran, Vaishali, Munger, Muzaffarpur, Saharsa, Madhepura, Khagaria, Begusarai, Darbhanga, Madhubani, Patna, Sitamarhi, Samastipur and Sheohar) of Bihar before monsoon season at District/Block levels. More than 15,000 village volunteers, local people, students, state police, and also central and state government personnel participated in the programme. Community participation may be viewed as a process that serves one or more of the following objectives: Increasing Empowerment: It should be defined as seeking to increase the control of disaster-affected people over the resources and decisions affecting their lives in the disaster aftermath; and ensuring their participation in the benefits produced by the society in which they live. Any project or development activity during the rehabilitation process has to be a means of empowering people, so that they are able to initiate as well as sustain disaster-mitigation actions on their own, and thus influence the process and outcome of development. Building Beneficiary Capacity: It could be achieved by ensuring that participants are actively involved in projects of rehabilitation and social consciousness, as well as awareness generation through formal or informal training. Enhancing Project Effectiveness: Community participation tends to enhance project effectiveness when the involvement of beneficiaries contribute to better project formulation, design and implementation, and leads to better match of project services with beneficiary needs and constraints. Sharing Project Costs: An object of community participation is the desire to share the cost of the project with the people it serves. Thus, beneficiaries may be expected to contribute labour, or other infrastructure resources to undertake or maintain the project. The advantages of community participation in the recovery phase are: Systematic identification of problems Source: Community Empowerment/ chcsi.org 24
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