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Participatory
Vulnerability Analysis - PVA
Reducing
Vulnerability - Increasing Resilience
Community
Women and Men
PVA
is a tool developed by ActionAid to involve communities in an in-depth
examination of their vulnerability.
What
are you vulnerable to? What do you feel at risk from? What do you do to make
yourself feel safe? Have you ever stopped to think about those little things
you do everyday to make your life secure? This is exactly what ActionAid is
doing with communities all over the world.
PVA in Action
Ethiopia-Kormuk District - Community members also realised that one of the problems they have is that they receive little support from local authorities and these are based very far away from their villages.
Participatory Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) is a tool developed by ActionAid to involve communities we work with in an in-depth examination of their vulnerability and what can be done to reduce it.
Vulnerability has many dimensions and many causes – from political events, seemingly out of the control of everyday people, to practical steps communities can take to reduce their own vulnerability.
PVA addresses these different causes of vulnerability in 3 steps
· Holding community
meetings to find out and examine the causes of vulnerability and formation of
community action plans to reduce it. This might involve meetings over several
days using pictures, stories, role-plays and discussions in the community. The
community is often separated into smaller groups of women, men, youths,
children so that everyone has the chance to speak up.
· The community
present their findings to the district level authorities and lobby them to take
action to reduce vulnerability.
· The process is
repeated with the national level authorities, representatives of other national
organisations, government and the communities discuss the findings with a
particular emphasis on taking action.
PVA is versatile and has been used to analyse vulnerability to emergencies and conflict all over the world and to take steps to reduce the chance of disasters happening.
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