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33 Months of implementation period26th September – Closure of projectFocus – India/Indonesia/Sri Lanka/Maldives

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Building resilience to tsunami in the Indian Ocean

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UNEPPWRIADRRNUNDP INDIAUNDP RCBABUKUJNUPRACTICAL ACTION

PWRIADRRNUNDP INDONESIAUNDP RCBNIEDABUUNEPUNESCO

PWRIADRRNUNDP MALDIVESUNDP RCBNIEDKU

UNEPPWRIADRRNUNDP SLUNDP RCBNIEDKUSARVODAYAPRACTICAL ACTION

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– The ‘Building resilience’ initiative supported 4 countries (India, Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka) to address gaps in community preparedness, building national capacity, public awareness, and enhancing tsunami risk research and knowledge.

– 3 year initiative, €6.48 million, more than 19 partners – being coordinated by UNISDR Asia Pacific.

– It could be the first true joint work-programme of ISDR system partners;

– It could be one of the first regional programmes to link the interest of tsunami recovery into a longer-term tsunami resilience building initiative at government, community and research levels.

The initiative....

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“To build the resilience of communities and nations to disasters by strengthening national and local institutions, mechanisms and capacities for disaster risk reduction”

Overall project objective:

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• Focus– 1.1 The capacities of national platforms and institutions

for disaster risk reduction strengthened. – 1.2 Integrated disaster risk reduction in environmental

coastal zone management implemented.– 1.3 Coordination, information exchange and learning

among targeted countries facilitated and enhanced.

• Key partners: National Governments (NDMO), UNDP Regional Centre, PWRI, UNESCO, UNDP Country Offices & UNEP

Key achievements :-18639 - No. of disaster management teams (DMTs) organized at all

levels. (India)9630 - No. of disaster management committees (DMCs) formed at all

levels (India)9297 - No. of disaster preparedness plans and early warning

mechanisms developed (India)

Objective 1: Strengthened national institutional capacity in disaster risk reduction

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– 2.1 Public awareness on tsunami and disaster risk increased – 2.2 The role of education in early warning and disaster

reduction advocated and strengthened

• Key partners: SEEDS Asia, UNDP Country Offices, Sarvodaya, ABU, UNESCO, Asian Disaster Risk Reduction Network, Kyoto University

Key achievements :-195 - Number of members from School task force and community stakeholders groups

trained on DRR (India)12 – Training materials developed (Maldives) • - No. of teachers trained on DRR subject areas and curriculum instruction (Maldives)6 - No. of Schools with school safety programmes implemented (Sri Lanka)

Objective 2: Increased public awareness and knowledge

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– 3.1 Capacities and mechanisms for disaster risk reduction at the community level strengthened.

– 3.2 Community resilience strengthened through integrated disaster risk reduction

• Key partners: UNESCO, Asian Disaster Risk Reduction Network, UNESCO, SEEEDS India, UNDP Country Offices, SEEDS Asia, Mercy Malaysia.

Key achievements :-

35 - Government officials at Island and Atoll levels better equipped with knowledge and skills on Disaster Management planning (Maldives)

3420 – No. of stakeholders from different stakeholder groups participated in simulation / mock exercises (Indonesia)

17608 - No. of Women trained in preparing disaster preparedness and mitigation plans at village level (India)

Objective 3: Strengthened disaster risk reduction capacities of local communities

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– 4.1 Field research and comparative studies on the risks and socio-economic impacts of disasters carried out in high risk areas

• Partners: UNDP Regional Centre, NIED, UNDP Country Offices, NIED, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Practical Action

Key achievements :-

3 - report on cost benefit analysis highlighting key findings and recommendations for most appropriate and cost-benefit mitigation and/adaptation measures developed (Maldives)

Tsunami Sedimentation Survey conducted in 3 COUNTRIES

Objective 4: Research and analysis on the risk and impact of tsunamis

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• With over 90% of funding programmed across the 4 countries, 19 partners, reaching multi-stakeholders in national governments and districts at risk, progress is good.

• The challenge is to capture the impacts and not only the success, for the donor, the partners and the beneficiaries.– UNISDR along with all the partners is currently

capturing the lessons learned but more towards addressing the impact and not only the achievements.

– On the same lines, DEV-TV has been contracted to develop a 30 minutes movie highlighting the achievements, mechanism and impacts on the communities and stakeholders across the four countries.

Spreading the news

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Financial status...

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• UNISDR-ESCAP regional consultation meeting “ Coastal and Climate Hazards” to be held on 17-18th September would try to look towards the next steps.

• But the bigger question for all of us is -–How do we upscale the

achievements?–What are the gaps?–What were the lessons learned?

Good and bad practices?

Leading to ? What’s Next

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