MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION BY A TRANSFORMATORY PROCESS AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL

Challenge to Change (CtC)

Capacity Development on CBDRM and Participatory Planning Process

CBDRM and HCVRA Participatory Planning City/District Workshop on CBDRM & PPlaning CBDRM & Participatory Planning for Local Facilitators Implementation of Plan CBDRM training & Conducting VCA at selected wards

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation

Validation of VCA results (Community meetings)

Integration of CBAP into SEDP and approval (SLDs)

Community-based Disaster Adaptation Plan Preparedness Plan (Ward/Commune level)

Legal documents support CBA Planning

2003: Decree on Democracy at Grassroots levels N0 79/2003/ND-CP (issued in July, 2003); 2004: Decree on promoting Decentralization of government management N0 08 (issued on 30/6/2004); 2007: National Strategy for Natural Disaster Prevention, Response and Mitigation to 2020; 2009: Governments 12 year-project on Community awareness raising and community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) from 2009-2020 (issued in July 2009); 2008: National Target Program responding to Climate Change (NTP) from 2009-2015 (issued in Aug 2008); 2008: NTP decision No 158/Q-TTg (2 December 2008): Response to CC is the responsibility of the whole political system, the society, the sectors and organizations... ; ...CC must be integrated into development strategies, programs, plans, planning in all sectors and at all levels...
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Main Activities
Climate change (related concepts, basic information) and Government strategies; CBDRM approach and VCA linked with local SEDP and NTP; Participatory planning approach & Communitybased Adaptation Plan;

Basic coaching techniques and skills for local facilitators (change agent).

Pictures of CBDRM trainings

Community awareness rasing on CBDRM and CCA

Participation of

Vulnerable Communities in

VCA

Adaptive measure Identification

plan Implementation

Management, Monitoring & Evaluation

Principles of Community-based Adaptation Plan

Reduce current and future vulnerabilities to disasters with community priorities; Advocate for adoption of community solutions on risk reduction incorporated in local development planning process; Establish a clear capacity-building strategy for local government and villagers that reinforces existing systems. Make a connection between the outcomes of community planning and city decision-making process in SEDP

Process and Steps of CBA Planing

[1] Orientation of CBAPlaning

[6] Evaluation
[2] CVA and Risk reduction measures

[5] Implementation

[4] District approval and feedback

[3] Wards CBAP

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Elements to make a plan work

Ensure quality of communitys participation and functioning agencies response to local planning; Ensure disaster preparedness plans reflecting the results of participatory risk assessment;

Ensure the inclusion of disaster preparedness solutions in local socio-economic plans

There is no single plan that would be suitable to all kinds of

disasters and that could be applied to every area

Challenges
Political commitment to applying VCA & participatory planning approach; Local governments receptive to bottom-up approach need to build their skills and tools Integration of CBAP into SEDP needs more times and effort; Better coordination among involving stakeholders for a comprehensive plan on climate change adaptation Livelihood adaptation priority: long-term perspective; Financing of focal activities in CBAP; Need to establish bridging people with facilitation skills and techniques to work with community and city level; Scale size of the piloting model in each city is it influential to policy makers?

Recommendation
Communication and coordination functions need to be well defined among involving stakeholders City leadership and commitment are required to strengthen participation of community and other stakeholders in CBRDM planning process. Public dialogue forums should be also established for this process; Setting up a clear process of integrating CCA/CBDRM into local SEDP & NTP action plan

Recommendation
Setting up an easily-applicable MEL (monitoring, evaluation and learning) system to measure outcomes of the process Community awareness and capacity development for different stakeholders are crucial and need to be done consistently and comprehensively Institutionalizing good practices of participatory planning process in DRR and CCA initiatives must be linked to community development priorities.

Local facilitators are Practicing on using VCA tools in Trung An community Can Tho city

Date 16 v 17/08/2011

Canal has been narrowed and blocked without drainage for years

No drainage system at residential areas

A problem of waste management & pollution

Problems in An Binh ward

Vulnerability in An Binh

A highly risky household to land slides

Community meeting to identify problems related to climate change

Women Group Discussion in An Binh

Micro-enterprise group discussions in An Binh

Presenting VCA results at a validation meeting of Trung An commune (19/08/2011)

THANK YOU

Nguyen Thi Phuc Hoa