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Community Disaster Resilience Fund |
Description
Recognising the lack of international development funds that can be accessed by local community organisations to catalyse local risk reduction and adaptation measures, ProVention collaborated with GROOTS and the Huairou Commission to develop a Community Disaster Resilience Fund (CDRF) to catalyse and resource community-led disaster risk reduction initiatives through community grants.
The CDRF mechanism was conceived to enable the direct flow of resources and support from national and global donors to local actors. It operates through a lead partner at the national level who convenes interested partners for joint management of the fund and facilitates the grant mechanism at the core of the project. The CDRF mechanism also encourages peer-to-peer knowledge sharing among the community organisations that are grant recipients.
Outputs & events
A CDRF concept note was written to capture key points from the dialogue around the establishment of a community disaster resilience fund that took place between in 2007 and 2008. It is intended to serve as a basis for continued dialogue with a wider set of actors.
A test project in India was developed in collaboration with GROOTS and the National Alliance on Disaster Risk Reduction, a coalition of NGOs in India working on this topic, and endorsed by the Government's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). The project team held initial community consultations in the three states of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh between May and August 2008 and formed a CDRF Advisory Group among NADRR partners in October 2008. In December 2008, Swayam Shikshan Prayog and Knowledge Links, on behalf of NADRR, hosted a two day workshop with potential NGO partners (implementing organisations for the Community Fund) in order to share and co-create the operational design of the Fund and to receive ideas from experienced NGOs as to how they see the concept and design of this fund. Notes from the planning workshop are available at the NADRR website. Grants were provided to community organisations in 7 Indian states.
In collaboration with CEPREDENAC, small grants were also given to indigenous Garifuna and Mayan communities in Honduras & Guatemala, as well as to flood-prone communities in Nicaragua.
For more details about first pilot activities, see Huairou Commission's website.