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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