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TURNING PRACTICE INTO POLICY: Linking Good Practice Community-based Disaster Risk Management with Government Policy and Practice. What is it?. An information resource to be used for advocacy in Disaster risk reduction (DRR)

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  1. TURNING PRACTICE INTO POLICY: Linking Good Practice Community-based Disaster Risk Management with Government Policy and Practice

  2. What is it? • An information resource to be used for advocacy in Disaster risk reduction (DRR) • It introduces the idea that there are Principles of good practice in community based disaster risk management that can be used by decision-makers for DRR • It identifies the challenges facing governments in incorporating good practice into DRR policy and planning

  3. How can it be used? • The information can be used to shape advocacy strategies • It can help in influencing government officials • It can help NGOs understand the government perspective in shaping DRR policy • It can help governments understand the NGO perspective in influencing DRR policy

  4. How is the research presented? • In two Phases. • Phase 1- Identifying good practice Community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) • Phase 2-Identifying challenges in linking CBDRM with government policy and practice

  5. How was the research done? • Phase 1- Spoke to communities in Asia and Africa, and questioned international DRR experts for their views on good practice in CBDRM. • Phase 2 – Interviewed governments in 6 countries – Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Zambia

  6. Phase 1 • Phase 1 found that: • Good practice CBDRM is based on important ‘principles’ that are applicable in most contexts • Examples of CBDRM fall into a list of topics • Good practice CBDRM operates in a loop where the principles of CBDRM are applied to make improvement in the implementation of topics resulting in specific examples of CBDRM.

  7. Phase 1 Diagram of Good Practice CBDRM

  8. Phase 1 Conclusions • Understanding the context in which a particular CBDRM activity takes place is crucial. • Commitment to valuing the principles of good practice within the different topic boundaries leads to examples of good practice CBDRM • If the process is right, the examples of good practice will follow. • Principles of good practice can be applied globally • Country governments, donors, NGOs and communities can use the Phase 1 research to identify what good practice CBDRM looks like.

  9. Examples of Principles: • DRR Integrated with Recovery Activities • Mainstreaming DRR with Development plans and Policies • The Involvement of Local Government • The Participation of Local Stakeholders in Decision-making • Involvement of all government departments and other stakeholders in DRR planning • Multi-stakeholder engagement when designing DRR policy

  10. Phase 2 • In 2006, Tearfund issued a questionnaire to expert DRR academics and practitioners around the world to identify why CBDRM is not better supported by governments. • In 2007, Tearfund also sought local and national governments’ perspectives on CBDRM through semi-structured interviews facilitated by Tearfund staff and partners in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger and Zambia

  11. Phase 2: Examples of questions asked • “Can you explain the reasons behind your government’s current level of expenditure on disaster risk reduction?” • “What would cause your government to allocate more resources to it?”

  12. Phase 2 diagram of Challenges linking practice and policy

  13. Phase 2 Conclusions: • Phase 2 found that there are: • Government-related issues that can hinder the allocation of resources for CBDRM eg lack of capacity • Community-related issues that can hinder the flow of information on CBDRM to government eg. Lack of influence at govt level • Government AND Community-related issues that can act as a barriers t linking CBDRM with government policy and practice eg. Lack of trust

  14. Phase 2conclusions continued… • Suggests methods to overcome the challenges facing: • Governments for example: Providing regular, ongoing training for key staff • NGOs for example: attending govt meetings and consultations • Governments and NGOs for example: Set aside assumptions about each other

  15. The way forward: • Governments, donors and NGOs all have an important role to play in addressing these challenges. Tearfund recommends that: • NGOs use this information resource to improve their advocacy • Govts use this information resource to engage better with DRR perspectives from civil society • Govts work in consultation and partnership with civil society and other stakeholders • Donors develop their institutional capacity for DRR

  16. Where to find the research? • It can be found on the Tearfund Website under Disaster Risk Reduction reports: • http://tilz.tearfund.org • Or for a hard copy of the CD Rom, please e-mail mairo.retief@tearfund.org

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