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Promotion of Grass root innovations for Disaster Risk
Reduction and Climate Change Adaption
2nd International Conference of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk ,
7th-9th June , Beijing 2014
Reneema Hazarika
Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network
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Birth of ADRRN
• Formed in Feb 2002 when the Asian NGOs met together at "Regional Workshop on Networking and Collaboration among Asian NGOs in Disaster Reduction and Response“ held in Kobe, Japan.
• Mission: “Promote coordination and collaboration among NGOs for effective and efficient disaster reduction and response in the Asia-Pacific region”
• Aiming for 1) collective lead in DRR in Asia, 2) capacity enhancement ,
3) information exchange, and 4) working together through network
• The Network now is a family of 50 members and is constantly growing.
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ADRRN Strategic objectives:
1. Promoting grass root innovations by combining scientific
knowledge with local wisdom
2. Amplifying civil society voices through strategic policy advocacy
and communications at multilevel platforms.
3. Facilitating institutional and organizational support to national and
local civil societies in Asia to enhance accountability.
4. Expanding reach and engagement in order to better promote
coordination between different stakeholders.
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“Promoting grassroots innovation by combining scientific knowledge with local wisdom.”
ADRRN Strategic objective 1
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Why Local / Grass root
Knowledge ?
“Given enough time, everything that is old will become new again.”
Conway (1997)
• to reduce the gap between knowledge and
practice
• enhance the existing database of the successful traditional practices
having scientific validation
• replicating good practices will help in building
resilience in the grassroots , vulnerable to the
impending climate change and natural hazards.
• ADRRN network has germane knowledge through
support of its different members in different
countries of Asia Pacific.
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Defining…….
• Local knowledge: It is a kind of knowledge resulting
from observations of the “local environment or at a
particular site and held by a specific group of people”
(Turnbull, 2009).
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Local /Traditional Knowledge
Dynamic and
adaptive
Orally transmitted
(not documente
d)
Locally bound
Culture and context specific Non formal
knowledge
Holistic
Related to survival and subsistence
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Approach
Reflection
• Surveys
• Collection of data
Knowledge analysis
• Results and findings
• Consultations
Action
• Advocacy
• Campaigns
• Activities
Outcome mapping
• M & E
• Impact assessments
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• Identification of local innovations with replication potential in areas, with
geographical and cultural equivalence.
• Detailed documentation of the local practices for future reference on
research and development.
• Promote and create awareness about traditional and cost effective practices
for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptations.
• Enhancing local capacity.
• Facilitate maximum outreach and policy interventions through scientific
validation of the practices.
WHAT IS EXPECTED ????
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1. Flood adaptation in Pati , Indonesia
2. Climate Change adaptation in Livelihoods , Vietnam
for 2013- 14
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Case Study I : Campaign on Flood awareness and grass root
innovation in Indonesia
“ Yang Tangguh yang bertahan” survival of the resilient !
The most important part of this campaign was awareness
generation by hands on raft building to commute during
floods .
On display were innovations like the
1. Floating kiosk ( for rearing fingerlings , during drought)
2. Rearing owls and other predatory birds to control pests
in agriculture fields.
3. Water filter used during drought.
4. Ranggons built during floods
5. Verticulture for growing plants during floods and
droughts.
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Campaign in Gajahmati ( Pati ) , Indonesia
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Case Study 2 : Livelihood adaptation for Climate Change in Vietnam
• Namh Dinh province suffers from flooding by sea level
rise .
• Use of environmental friendly Bio pads for livestock
rearing in Gian Xuan .
• Clam culture and salt making the traditional livelihood
of this coastal community
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Enabling local officials
• Facilitating research support
• Demonstrate through pilots
• DMAs in the regions are capacitated with disaster management law ,
trainings on mapping , organizational structure , program plans etc.
• Creating dialogue between multistakeholders ensuring community based
planning while integrating local knowledge
• Local authorities , media , local institutes participating in the campaigns .
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Promotion of the campaigns…..
Dialogue
Workshops
and
conferences
Publications Pilot projects
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Challenges :
• Communities have now learnt to adapt and adjust to a constraint rather
than transcend it.
• Lack of accessibility to proper scientific research / institutions
accompanied by lack of general responsiveness on the part of scientists has
prevented these communities to optimize their solutions and pursuing the
innovations to a logical level.
• Lack of promotion of the local innovations at the policy level.
• The lack of intellectual property protection through specific instruments
and legal frameworks designed to help local innovators.
• Lack of micro venture capital prevents transition of small innovations into
enterprise .
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Beneficiaries and outreach
• By 2016 , ADRRN strives to reach out to 5 million vulnerable people with
life saving assistance in vulnerable countries of Asia Pacific , based on
understanding of genuine needs and challenges .
• The process of the campaigns by ADRRN also involved local authorities
and encouraged them to take ownership of the DRR issues and activities .
• Involvement of local authorities also increased the community
participation.
• Create a standardized risk assessment process that can be readily replicated
across all environmental risk .
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Conclusion
• Development of local knowledge can contribute to adaptation and
mitigation in DRR and climate change in an important way.
• Experience sharing
• Searching for good practices with scientific validation having high
replication potential.
• Increase in number of beneficiaries
• Campaigns replicable to other regions with similar environmental
conditions.
• Recognition of local innovations by public policy makers in DRR &
CCA need to be strengthened.
• Advocating local innovations
• More partnerships
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Acknowledgement
• ADRRN membership
• Yayasan SHEEP , Indonesia
• Centre for marine life Conservation and Community Development
( MCD)Vietnam
• SEEDS India
• IRDR conference committee
• Australian Government ( Department of Foreign Affairs and trade)
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Thank You …..and Do Keep supporting…..
