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DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

EFRAH is working in a multi-state programme on Urban Disaster Risk Reduction – Building Safer and Resilient Communities in Urban Slums in India to strengthen the voice of Urban Poor such as Youth and unorganized poor workers in NCR/Delhi region to claim their rights and due resource –share and to sensitize the government on pro-poor measures. Resilience is the ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to, and recover from the effects of a hazard promptly and efficiently by preserving and restoring essential basic structures. A resilient community is one that can absorb disturbances, change, reorganize, and still retain the same basic structures and provide the same services. As a concept, resilience can be applied to any community and any type of disturbance: natural, man-made, or a combination of the two. Disaster resilience can be seen as a public good that builds an appropriate amount of redundancy into urban systems and encourages communities to plan how to deal with disruptions.

Objectives of the DRR programme are Vulnerable children and mothers have increased coping capacity to shocks induced by natural hazards and everyday risks by safeguarding protection, education, health & nutrition and other lifeline services in Delhi.
The programme runs on three-tier system which holds the small objectives at three different levels:
The1. Children, mothers and communities demonstrate resilience through increased capacity and risk reduction initiatives with child centered approach. The result aims to reduce vulnerability of children; mothers and communities exposed to everyday shocks, natural hazard and induced risks at community level.
2. Children and school authorities have increased capacity to identify and minimize risks through comprehensive school safety planning. Many schools in the target areas do not have disaster preparedness plans and the education system does not systematically build resilience practices into their existing strategies. We will promote more active participation of the education sector in the local disaster preparedness, resilience building and emergency response structure. All the targeted schools will be supported to develop their own school safety plans with the active participation of children, mothers and teachers.
3. Child centered resilience approach is recognized at government level. This result emphasizes on dynamic engagement with the government and their cooperation to make child centered disaster risk reduction as a priority at department level.

CAPACITY BUILDING ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

Disasters are always devastating whether it is natural or man- made. A Section of population is always in need of the training for coping mechanism. EFRAH in association with Save the Children conducted Disaster Risk Reduction measures and hazard vulnerability capacity analysis in SDMC schools. It was, in fact, orientation and sensitization of school authorities, teaching and non-teaching staffs and students on evacuation maps indicating evacuation routes, resources and safe assembly area within school premise during any kind of disasters. The program content designed for easy grasping to school students that include the school safety plan and signage route. The training module introduces to 41 schools of south Delhi in which Students, teaching/non-teaching staffs and some parents participated. The module consisted of general safety practice, geo-informatics system (GIS) and signage route according to school building and floors etc are trained on prescribed format.Disasters are always devastating whether it is natural or man- made. A Section of population is always in need of the training for coping mechanism. EFRAH in association with Save the Children conducted Disaster Risk Reduction measures and hazard vulnerability capacity analysis in SDMC schools. It was, in fact, orientation and sensitization of school authorities, teaching and non-teaching staffs and students on evacuation maps indicating evacuation routes, resources and safe assembly area within school premise during any kind of disasters. The program content designed for easy grasping to school students that include the school safety plan and signage route. The training module introduces to 41 schools of south Delhi in which Students, teaching/non-teaching staffs and some parents participated. The module consisted of general safety practice, geo-informatics system (GIS) and signage route according to school building and floors etc are trained on prescribed format.