Green Recovery And Reconstruction: Training Toolkit For Humanitarian Aid
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Disaster Risk Reduction
Session 1: Introduction; Disaster Risk
Reduction and the Environment
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Getting to Know You…
Please take the paper in front of you, fold it in half and write your name on one side.
Please pair-up and ask your partner the following questions: What is your name and organization you work with? What do you do? Have you ever been involved in a disaster risk reduction
program?
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Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit
Developed by WWF and the American Red Cross
Based on a 5-year partnership formed after the 2004 tsunami between WWF, AmCross and partners in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Maldives
Designed for use globally after natural disasters and conflict
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10 Program ModulesGreen Guide to:
1. Opportunities for Green Recovery and Reconstruction: An Introduction
2. Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
3. Environmental Impact Assessment Tools and Techniques
4. Strategic Site Selection and Development
5. Materials and the Supply Chain
6. Construction
7. Water and Sanitation
8. Livelihoods
9. Disaster Risk Reduction
10.Organizational Operations
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GRRT Principles
“Do no harm” to people and communities recovering from disaster by addressing environmental sustainability
Recognize that addressing the environment has multiple benefits
Take ownership Build back safer Be solution-oriented Emphasize the use of local knowledge
“Words to live by.” -- Ron Savage, OFDA
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Workshop Ground Rules
Mobiles silent
Be punctual
Stay on topic
Succinct -be brief
One conversation
at a time
Active listening
Other?
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The Main Point of this Workshop is to…
Incorporate an environmental perspective into DRR assessments
and interventions
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By the end of this workshop, you should be able to…
Describe the ways in which disaster risk and environmental conditions are linked
Identify a set of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction activities that can enhance disaster risk reduction programs
Describe how disaster risk reduction activities can have negative impacts on the environment and how these impacts can be mitigated
Integrate environmental issues into typical DRR assessments
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Workshop Agenda
Session Topic
1 Introductions, disaster risk reduction and the environment
2 Environment-based DRR activities and assessments
LUNCH
3 Climate, risk and applying DRR to ecosystems
4 Ecosystem-based DRR exercise, workshopsummary
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Your Experience
Do any of you have a case study that you would like to present after lunch?
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Risk = Hazard x Vulnerability What is a hazard? What is vulnerability? How does the environment relate to
hazards and vulnerability?
Quick Review of Definitions
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Disaster Risk Reduction
“The practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyze and manage the causal factors of disasters.” (ISDR)
What are the main strategies to do this?
The full ISDR definition includes these elements: Reduced exposure to hazards Lessened vulnerability of people and property Wise management of land and the environment Improved preparedness for adverse events
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Definition of Ecosystem
Dynamic complexes of plants, animals and other living communities and the non-living environment interacting as functional units. Humans are an integral part of ecosystems. Source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis.
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How is vulnerability linked to the environment?
1. Where people live – it may be a location threatened by one or more hazards.
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Here is one example (Brazil). Identify some other examples
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How is vulnerability linked to the environment?
2. Access to natural resources:
For economic use
To meet basic needs, for instance, water, fuel and shelter
What are examples?
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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
From: Our Common Future, World Commission on Environment and Development, Oxford University Press, 1987
What is the relationship between disaster risk reduction and environmental sustainability?
What is environmental sustainability?
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To be sustainable…
DRR actions Should be able to continue in the future, that is, they
are not short term, and Will not compromise capacity to meet needs in the
future, that is, we should not try to solve problems only to have them re-occur in the future
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Exercise: Hazards and the Environment
We will now explore in more detail the link between hazards and the environment
Each group will receive a picture of a hazard.
Discuss the picture and list, on a flip chart, all the environmental issues you can identify from the picture or the context of the picture.
Designate one person to present the results.
You have 10 minutes for this exercise . .
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20Mod 9 Ses 1 http://www.areavoices.com/attic/images/atticblowdown2_500px.jpg
21Mod 9 Ses 1 Photo credit: Charles Kelly
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23Mod 9 Ses 1 Photograph by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
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Summary so far
Links between disaster risk & environment
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Ecosystem-basedDRR activities
Next
Mitigate neg. impactson the environment Integrate environment
into DRR assessm’ts
Then
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Time to take a 15 minute break
Suggested Activities…..
Get some exerciseVisit unusual
placesGet to know the
other participants
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