Post on 05-Jan-2016
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Pacific Humanitarian Team
Joint Proposal for strengthening DRM
coordination
Summary
• Builds on logic of Pacific Platform for DRM and Pacific Humanitarian Team
• Strengthening DM & DRR coordination and Gender mainstreaming
• OCHA/ISDR facilitated joint proposal for NDMOs and Clusters
• 3 year programme
• Coordination advisors supporting NDMOs and Cluster Leads Agencies
• Proposed: Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands
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Background
• NDMO limited capacity and many responsibilities, requests
for support in coordination, leadership, management,
capacity development
• Limited inter-agency coordination national/sub-national in
DRM
• Limited international humanitarian presence in PICs,
limited knowledge of local counterparts
• GBV, Gender inequality and limited gender analysis
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Lessons LearnedQuality of disaster reduction, preparedness and response
improves greatly when it is:
(a) led by national organizations
(b) based on the capacities, knowledge and perceptions of both women and men;
(c) coordinated among national and international actors
(d) supported by well-prepared cluster lead agencies.
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Lessons LearnedIntegration of gender considerations across DM & DRR
activities results in:
• More effective interventions by recognizing the different needs and priorities of different groups;
• More timely and targeted provision of support, through better analysis;
• More comprehensive and stronger DM, DRR and disaster recovery, by maximizing the contributions of both men and women;
• Opportunities to promote more equitable gender relationships, improving resilience, reduce women’s poverty and social inequities.
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ObjectivePacific preparedness, response and disaster reduction
systems will be strengthened by providing dedicated human resources for coordination and gender equality to
critical DRM bodies.
• Advisors allocated to NDMOs in selected PICs will provide practical organizational development support and capacity building.
• Advisors will also be allocated to those PHT cluster lead agencies who are unable to provide the degree of country-level support required in national emergencies.
• More inclusive and gender-aware disaster preparedness and management practices at both national level and between participating countries .
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(1) national advisors• Strengthen NDMO capacity to lead and manage inter-agency
collaboration and coordination for emergency preparedness and response;
• Enhance multi-stakeholder collaboration and coordination for the sustainability of DRM through National Platforms for DRM (ECOSOC 1999/63), related to NAPs;
• Build national level information management resources;
• Support diverse, representative and gender balanced DRM practices among all government and non-government actors.
Tasks: facilitation of stakeholder meetings, liaison between cluster leads, clusters and national (sector) counterparts, mapping of DRM needs and resources, information management, DRM training and contingency planning, and arranging/facilitating
national DRM progress reviews and response evaluations.
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(2) cluster advisors• Collaborate with and support national cluster counterparts
• Increase the knowledge and ability of cluster member agencies to comply with international guidelines, standards and principles;
• Support inclusive and gender-aware DRM practices among all cluster actors;
• Ensure systematic attention to human rights, age, environment, climate change and other social and cross-cutting factors in cluster plans and activities
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(3) Advancing Gender Equality
• Annual national forums on women and disasters in each country, including women from remote islands;
• A regional gender and disasters network meeting (progress & learning review) held annually
• Supporting attendance as required to achieve gender balance at regional disaster forums
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Options• Option 1: 10 country advisors, 8 cluster advisors, 1 PM, 1 PA +
travel, training, meetings: USD 1.575 M/year
• Option 2: 6 country advisors, 6 cluster advisors, 1 PM, 1 PA + travel, training, meetings: USD 1.31 M/year
• Option 3: 4 country advisors, 4 cluster advisors, 1 PM, 2/3 PA + travel, training, meetings: USD 0.81 M/year
• Complementary to other initiatives
• PMU in UNRC’s office for overall management with TA from ISDR, OCHA and UNWomen
• Functional management by NDMOs and CLAs
• Enumeration based on international UNV package, but recruitment and contracting flexible
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