Zurich Flood Resilience Programme - Community Disaster Management Committee
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Jodi Sugden
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2016-03
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Disasters
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Practical Action is proud to be a member of the 'Global Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance', which aims to save the lives and livelihoods of the most poor by preventing floods from becoming disasters. The Insurance firm Zurich has brought together a wide and diverse range of organisations and experts with the aim over 5 years to enhance flood resilience in 15 communities in at least three countries and directly improve the livelihood of 100,000 individuals. The alliance aims to become global leaders in enhancing community resilience to floods both in terms of technical knowledge and practice. Practical Action provides technical innovation on the ground in challenging environments, as well as the mechanisms for sharing learning from those innovations. We also have a robust track record in disaster preparedness activities. Our involvement will therefore help to strengthen and refine the alliance and its ability to support vulnerable communities. Our approach is guided by our Vulnerability to Resistance framework. This framework sets out key factors that contribute to peoples' vulnerability: exposure to hazards and stresses; fragile livelihoods; future uncertainty; and weak governance. It provides detailed explanations of the linkages between these factors as well as ideas for action to strengthen resilience. The programme seeks to combine research, community development and risk expertise, with network reach to strengthen capacity and increase resilience of communities so that they can better assess, manage and recover from. This includes the formation and training of a Community Disaster Management Committee (CDMC). The CMDC put together a risk map and a capacity plan, detailing the community's resources, emergency shelters and highlighting the most vulnerable areas and people at risk to flooding. This CMDC in Chisapani, Nepal have thorough plans including their village disaster risk maps written on posters and stuck up on their community flood shelter walls.
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