Managing multi-stakeholder partnership for collective impact for disaster recovery and...

Managing multi-stakeholder partnership for

collective impact for disaster recovery and

rehabilitation United Way of India

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• Learners will be able to understand role of their UW chapter as a catalyst and leader in Collective Community Impact through public-private partnerships and engagement of key community stakeholders

• Learners will be able to encourage Corporate Partners to become community change agents which goes beyond providing mere financial support for the project

• Learners will be able to understand the nuances of high impact Community Impact strategies in times of crisis in any community

Objectives of this Presentation:

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• Natural disasters occurring around the world and in India with increasing ferocity and frequency

• Increasing security concerns due to threats of man-made disasters -terror strikes, communal violence, etc.

• As a developing country, the impact of disasters on India’s GDP is estimated to range from 1.5% to a staggering 12% of the GDP

Disasters in India: Cause for Concern

According to BMTPC- GOI; India is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world: • Over 65% land area vulnerable to earthquakes;• 70% of land under cultivation prone to drought;• 40 million hectares to floods;• 8,000 km coastline to cyclones.

Source: Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC), Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, GOI.

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Maps showing India’s Vulnerability to certain major natural disasters:

Earthquake Hazard MapClimatic Disasters Hazard Map

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Disaster response efforts in the past:

by United Way network in India

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Incidence Year Lead United Way Funds Raised

Cyclone Phailin 2013 UW Hyderabad, UW India $ 66,666

Uttarakhand Floods 2013 UW Network in India (UWI and all 7 chapters) $ 1,095,000

Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh Floods

2009

UW Mumbai $ 70,303

UW Bengaluru $ 2,167

UW Hyderabad $ 3,333

Mumbai Terror attacks 2008 UW Mumbai $ 134,817

Bihar Floods 2008 UW Mumbai $ 450,000

UW Delhi $ 41,667

Mumbai Floods 2005 UW Mumbai $166,667

Tsunami in South India 2004 UW Mumbai $1,958,333

UW Baroda $10,000

Gujarat Earthquake 2001 UW Baroda $ 500,000

TOTAL $4,498,952

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• Resource Mobilization

• Identification of NGO Partners

• Volunteer management

• Coordination with government

and NGOs

• Need Assessment

• Identification of

programs for support

• Project monitoring

• Support to:

– Immediate Relief Interventions

– Mid-Term Relief Interventions

– Long-Term Rehabilitation

Broad Areas of UW’s Interventions:

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United Way of India’s Disaster Response Interventions in

response to The Himalayan Tsunami in the State of

Uttarakhand (North India Flash Floods) June 2013- A Case

Study

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Table of Contents:

• Impact of the Himalayan Tsunami in North India

• Role of United Way Disaster Response Fund- India

• Key Strategies Adopted for Disaster Response

• Various Partnerships Formed By United Way Disaster Response Fund- India

• UWI’s Interventions Phase- I : Immediate Relief

• UWI’s Interventions Phase- II: Mid-Term Relief

• Proposed Interventions for Phase III: Long Term rehabilitation

• Salient Features of UWI’s Approach: Collective Community Impact

Case Study of United Way of India’s Response to the North India Flash Floods

(June 2013)

Case Study of United Way of India’s Response to the North India Flash Floods- 2013

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Devastating Impact of the Himalayan Tsunami:

• Uttarakhand, a state in the northern part of India is

the most important Hindu pilgrimage site and

receives large number of pilgrims during the months

of June and July every year

• On 16th June, 2013, the state was hit by flash floods

followed by very heavy rainfall for over two weeks

• Widespread devastation and unprecedented loss of

lives and livestock

• Significant damages to public infrastructures, private

and public properties


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Devastating Impact of the Himalayan Tsunami:

• Over 150,000 pilgrims were stranded with no access to transport, food,

water, shelter, etc.

• Death toll -over 10,000 human lives

• Over 5,000 people were injured

• Estimated loss to Uttarakhand state -Rs. 3,000 crores (US$ 500 million)-

the development of the state was considered to be pushed back by three

years


United Way Disaster Response Fund- India created by United Way of India

Role of United Way Disaster response Fund- India

Resource mobilization (Financial, In-Kind, Volunteers, etc.)

Identification of credible NGO partners for on-ground implementation -

(NGOs with well-established track record in disaster relief and

rehabilitation)

Coordination between NGO partners, volunteer agencies and local

government agencies

Facilitation and monitoring of rehabilitation programs, management

of fund disbursement

Regular reports on progress in relief and rehabilitation to apprise all

the partners/ donors

Ensuring a comprehensive approach towards relief/ rehabilitation


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• Managing Multi-Stakeholder partnerships for:

–Thorough need assessment of the affected communities including consultations with the government, local organizations and community conversations with local community.

–Ensuring coordination between NGO partners, volunteer agencies and local government agencies for a comprehensive approach towards primary relief and long term rehabilitation.

–To compliment efforts of each of the organisations involved and avoid duplication of efforts in the communities

–Channelizing college students and community youth in constructive rehabilitation activities- taking ownership of your community redevelopment. Now also a Student United Ways program.

–continued

Key Strategies Adopted for Disaster Response:


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• Mobilizing and channelizing of financial donations, in-kind donations and volunteers

• Facilitation and monitoring of relief and rehabilitation programs and efficient management of fund utilization.

• Tracking the progress of the response interventions and reporting to the donors. This includes keeping the local Government and government agencies apprised of the progress.

Key Strategies Adopted for Disaster Response: continued


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Various Partnerships Formed By United Way Disaster Response Fund- India


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• 35 Corporates (Indian Companies and Multi-National Companies) extended financial supported in response to the appeal from United Way of India

• Over 4,000 individual donors contributed to the United Way Disaster Response Fund (India)

• UWI raised over $ 1 Million towards its disaster response interventions in North India

• Few corporate partners encouraged their employees to give in-kind donations: Four Large consignments of relief material were transported to the disaster affected state

• A multi-national transportation company provided offered its services at no cost to UWI for transporting the relief material collected by UWI’s partners from various parts of India

Corporate Donors and Individual Donors:


NGO Partners:

Organization Flood Interventions Supported by UWI

Pragya: working in the Himalayan region for past two decades for development of vulnerable communities and sensitive ecosystems.

Immediate relief and Community Building (long-term rehabilitation)

Hope Foundation: Work with children, education, health, youth empowerment and disaster relief

Immediate relief and Community Building (long-term rehabilitation)

AmeriCares India Foundation: Provide medical aid, set up medical camps for underprivileged and disaster affected communities

Medical relief

Goonj: An NGO that facilitates in-kind donation of clothes, food and other household amenities for underprivileged communities and disaster affected.

Distribution of basic amenities for living

Habitat for Humanity: providing housing related support for underprivileged and disaster affected communities.

Temporary shelters to be followed by permanent shelters


NGO Partners:

Organization Flood Interventions

Save The Children (India): working with children in difficult situations including that of war, disasters, etc.

Immediate relief and support to the children and communities affected with special focus on child friendly relief services such as psycho-social and educational support

Pratham: working for universalization of primary education and eradication of child labour

Community based interventions for continuing school education and for prevention of child trafficking and child labour

Pahal Institute For Community Empowerment & Micro Finance: working in Uttarakhand for addressing social welfare, Sustainable Development, Environment Protection, Micro Financing, Capacity Building of women, etc.

Immediate relief services and community re-building (long-term rehabilitation)

Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust: A university located in Dehradun catering to education, research, vocational training and community health.

Medical relief and Community Re-building (long-term rehabilitation)

Sahil India: An NGO working with the trained mountaineers for disaster response and environmental conservation

Immediate Relief to difficult to access villages


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• UWI strategically positioned one of the very few organizations

working on resource mobilization

• Core Team member of Uttarakhand Inter Agency Group

• UWI actively participated in the response coordination efforts by

lead by Sphere India, United Nations Disaster Management Team

• Active participation in the periodical coordination meetings

organized by the respective District Disaster Management

departments and the State Disaster management Departments of

Uttarakhand state government

• Consultation with Public Health Officials, Education Officials and

the respective District Magistrates of the disaster affected districts

Government Partnerships:


UWI’s Interventions: Phase- I

Immediate relief services to provide basic life-saving

support:

For areas/ villages that are difficult to access,-

supporting a team of mountaineers and porters,

who manually carry relief materials to affected

families . (Partner: Sahil India)

Financial support for transportation of relief

material and distribution of the same among the

affected populations of Uttarakhand. (Partner:

Goonj)

Transportation of large consignments of in kind

support donated by employees of corporate

partners from various Indian cities to base camps

of NGO partners in Uttarakhand. (Partners: Goonj,

Pahal)


UWI’s Interventions: Phase- II

Mid-Term relief support:

Critical health care services:

• Distribution of 2,500 specially designed 'Family

Health Kits' and Hygiene Kits to protect the

population during the continued monsoon season

from water and vector borne diseases

• Distribution of 2000 Child Care Kits and 2000

Mother Care Kits to address the acute need of

quality nutrition in women, especially expectant

mothers, and in children

• Distribution of 1000 Winter Kits to the affected

families to provide protection from the extreme

weather conditions in the region

• Supported over 300 Medical Camps with Post

traumatic psycho –social support



Support for Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation Services:

Supported installation of water storage tanks with water filters in 40 villages

Supported installation of pre-fabricated toilets in 40 villages




Support for Emergency/ Temporary

Shelter Assistance: Over 100

affected families provided emergency

and temporary shelters (Partner:

Habitat for Humanity)




Citizen Assistance Helpline Services: Creation of a Helpline Service, local

youth volunteers trained to assist people to avail benefits of newly introduced

schemes and existing Acts and Regulations. (Partner: Pragya)




Child Protection and Education Programs:

• Provision of innovative educational

material kits to the schools in affected

regions

• Supported school based and village level

sessions for child rights protection




Full-time residential shelter to cater to the

most vulnerable children: Support displaced

parents who are unable to take full care of

their children, ensure children continue their

schooling. (Partner: Pratham)


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• UWI is closely working with the government agencies and different NGO partners for creating a comprehensive project for rebuilding the community on following lines:

- Infrastructural development ( Construction of fully damaged schools, retrofitting partially damaged schools, etc.)

- Support interventions for improving quality of education

- Support school based interventions to provide quality health care and preventive health care to the children

- Support to interventions for promotion of livelihood services for the affected communities

Phase III Interventions: Long Term rehabilitation


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• All the interventions have been conducted based on thorough need assessment through a combination of the following methods:

–Community conversations

–Needs assessment visits to the villages

–Consultations with the NGO partners and the relevant government agencies

• UWI has been working to address wide range of needs of the community by partnering with different NGO partners who have different set of expertise

• Thus, such collaborative initiatives ensure collective strategies for addressing larger interest of the community

Salient Features of UWI’s Approach: Collective Community Impact


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• Active community participation in all the interventions to ensure community ownership

• Collaborations with the relevant government agencies to avoid duplication of work

Salient Features of UWI’s Approach: Collective Community Impact

A villager helping to carry the water tank for installation in his village

UWI handing over the health kits to the State Health Minister


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