WUNRN
Grassroots Academy on Women's Leadership and
Role in Disaster Risk Reduction
Third World Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan
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Women’s Movement Building Approach to Community Resilience
We define community resilience as: “a community’s
capacity to organize itself in order to reduce the impacts of natural hazards
and climate change by protecting resources such as lives, homes,
livelihoods, assets, services and infrastructure. It includes a community’s
capacities to advance development processes, social networks and institutional
partnerships that strengthen its ability to anticipate, cope with, resist and
recover from disaster.”
Through our Community Resilience campaign,
the Huairou Commission works with 29 organizations across 21
countries. Our Community Resilience Fund directly reaches 1,156
communities.
Our “Resilience diamond” represents our
holistic approach to community resilience based on movement building. Members
of our campaign work in partnership to holistically build the capacities of
their communities to respond to natural disasters and adapt to climate change
through these four integrated objectives.
Vision
The Community Resilience campaign envisions a
holistic, pro-active approach to reducing vulnerabilities to poverty, disasters
and climate change, in which organized groups of grassroots women frame
resilience in their own terms as improving housing, basic services, food
security, livelihoods and protecting the natural environment.
Goal
The Huairou Commission's Community Resilience
campaign aims to empower grassroots women's networks to gain the support of
partners, local authorities, national governments, donors and academics to
bring their priorities and practices to the forefront of policy and programming
in order to reduce vulnerabilities to disasters, climate change and poverty.
Objectives
- The Huairou Commission's Community
Resilience campaign aims to empower grassroots women's networks to gain
the support of partners, local authorities, national governments, donors
and academics to bring their priorities and practices to the forefront of
policy and programming in order to reduce vulnerabilities to disasters,
climate change and poverty.
- Link grassroots women's groups
within and across countries to create platforms for learning and advocacy
- Channel funds directly to
community based organization and women's groups in at-risk communities to
support them in initiating and scaling up effective DRR and Climate Change
Adaptation strategies to locally identified risks and vulnerabilities
- Develop collaborative partnerships
with networks of local, national and regional authorities to lift up
grassroots women's practices and streamline them into funded programs
- Position grassroots women as
expert practitioners to claim recognition and resources in policy venues
and UN events
