The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and

RecoverySession on Civil Society Engagement,

Community Resilience and Gender

Outline

Lessons from pilot strategy on Civil Society Partnership

Strategy overview and relation to GFDRR strategy

Strategy objectives

Summary and points for discussion

Lessons from pilot CSO strategy

Supporting local level resilience building

Vulnerability is the starting point

Organized communities should be recognized as partners with expertise in building resilience

Inclusive community resilience needs to emphasize socially inclusive approaches to DRM

Empowering women is a critical ingredient for building resilience

For scaling up, need to bridge the gap between local, sub-national and national levels

Lessons from pilot CSO strategy

GFDRR’s added value

Leveraging larger country programs

Convening power

Building on pilot strategy for greater impact on inclusive community resilience

Refine the approach in a new strategy to build on lessons learned in pilot phase

Capitalize more fully on GFDRR’s leveraging ability and convening power through WB

Integrate measurement on the objectives into GFDRR M&E framework

Strategic spheres

OBJECTIVE 3

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND POLICY AGENDA

OBJECTIVE 1 OBJECTIVE 2

CSO/CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT AND GENDER

GFDRR PORTFOLIO

DRM/CCA

CDD AND SP PORTFOLIOS

Obj. 1: Integration of civil society, citizen engagement, and gender dimensions into GFDRR’s portfolio

Activities: • Technical assistance and analysis to integrate citizen

engagement and gender dimensions in DRM country programs• Project activities implemented through CSO partners• Project activities that promote the role of women in DRM

Proposed targets:• Expansion of CSO engagement in DRM programs at the rate of

two per year so that by 2017, an additional six DRM programs have projects that engage civil society partners.

• Six GFDRR-supported country programs integrate a specific focus on women’s empowerment in DRM.

Examples:• Engaging students and citizens in generating risk maps in

Kathmandu• Honduran women’s organization leading inter-agency

partnership with govt on DRM

Obj. 2: Integration of DRM/CCA into large community level investments

Activities: Technical assistance and analysis to integrate DRM and CCA into large scale investments that provide resources directly to communities, including community driven development (CDD) and social protections systems.

Proposed targets:• Ten training activities undertaken with national governments

working on CDD or Social Protection regarding the integration of DRM into project design

• Six country CDD or social protections projects integrate DRM into their design

Example:• Request from national CDD program in Indonesia to support

training of community mobilizers on how to engage communities on DRM; community-led vulnerability analysis in demonstration villages for incorporation into village development plans; and support priority DRM investments identified by communities.

Obj. 3: Implementation of knowledge and policy agenda on inclusive community resilience

Activities: • Extracting and systematizing learning from projects undertaken

through objectives (1) and (2)• Testing, generating evidence, and promoting innovative models

of community-led DRM• Promoting the voice of community and civil society in DRM and

CCA policy dialogue

Proposed targets:• Substantive database of 30+ good practice cases on

community-led partnerships with government and private sector on DRM

• Civil society, inclusive DRM, and women’s empowerment successfully promoted at Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan in 2015

• Three country policy statements reflect recognition of community leadership and partnerships for DRM and climate change adaptation

Examples:• Research on Community-Led Partnership for Disaster and

Climate Resilience

Points for discussion

SUMMARY OF PROPOSED TARGETS FOR 2017

Obj. 1 Additional 6 DRM programs have projects that engage civil society partners.

Six GFDRR-supported country programs integrate a specific focus on women’s empowerment in DRM.

Obj. 2 10 policy dialogue and training activities undertaken with national governments working on CDD or Social Protection regarding the integration of DRM into project design

6 country CDD or social protections projects integrate DRM into their design

Obj. 3 Substantive database of 30+ good practice cases on community-led partnerships with government and private sector on DRM

Civil society, inclusive DRM, and women’s empowerment successfully promoted at Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan in 2015

3 country policy statements reflect recognition of community leadership and partnerships for DRM and CCA

M&E Civil society and citizen engagement indicators are developed and integrated into GFDRR’s M&E system

Gender indicators are fully integrated in GFDRR M&E Framework and all GFDRR projects are gender informed in at least one dimension

• Can we endorse the basic approach/structure?• Feasible targets (summary below)• Benchmarks and next steps for finalizing document, targets,

indicators and implementation