Dipecho drr managers meet 2009 report

ASIA DIPECHO/DRR MANAGERS MEET REPORT
28-30 October 2009, Dhulikel, Nepal

Sitting (L-R): Khem Raj, Pratima, Megh, Adriano, Bijay, John, jim, Shyam
Standing (L-R): Krishnan, Paras, Shaurabh, Swapan, Harjeet, Shakeb, Aloy, Rohitha, Nahakul, Mrinal, Claudia

Amidst the undulating hills, with majestic Himalays as the backdrop, the Asia IECT team
comprising DIPECHO managers, DRRS project team and senior IECT members gathered in
Dhulikel, Nepal to share knowledge, learn from each other and chart the way forward to make
DRR intervention stronger and efficient in ActionAid. It was a time for critical reflection, a time
for planning action and a time to engage in strategic dialogue, underlining the commitment of
the participants to the organization and the values it stands for. It was a time for formal
meetings and informal parleys… serious discourses and lighthearted banter… critical
engagements and funny moments… serious discussions and informal chats… meeting old
friends and making new ones… as always, the DRR team had lots of fun and the results were
more than expected… new ideas, new thoughts, new decisions, renewed commitments… all for
our collective but focused pursuit of propelling DRR work in AAI to newer heights… This report
captures the process and outcome of this much looked forward meet… HAPPY READING 

ASIA REGIONAL DIPECHO/DRR MANAGERS MEET
28-30 October 2009, Dhulikel, Nepal

DETAILED REPORT
Introduction

The second AAI ASIA DIPECHO/DRR meeting was held from 28th to 30th October, 2009 in Dhulikhel,
Nepal. The meeting brought together DRR practitioners from AAI, including DIPECHO/DRRS project
managers and IECT team members to deliberate on key lessons, learning, issues and way forward.
This report essentially tries to capture the fruitful discussions and deliberations during the meet, to
act as future reference document for IECT and different country programs in Asia.

Background

AAI IECT has been involved in DRR initiatives for past few years, particularly in Asia. Since 2001, AAI
has been undertaking different projects in DRR and has gained considerable lateral experience from
various countries, particularly India, Bangladesh and Nepal. In addition, recent forays into DRR in
countries like Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand etc. has given a boost to overall DRR
framework in AAI, helping the organization to realize its overall mission in human security work.

AAI in Asia is involved in DIPECHO projects since 2001. A combination of diligent execution,
efficiency and clarity in conceptual framework coupled by our strong grassroots involvement in
giving shape to the planned objects and anticipated results has gained highest levels of appreciation
not only from the donors, but also different stakeholders involved in DRR work. In addition, AAI has
been implementing the DRRS projects in different countries, including Bangladesh, India and Nepal
in the region. Thus, there are huge investments made in DRR work, strategically complementing the
mission of AAI to ensure safety and security of the most vulnerable people.

With abundant experience, increasing focus and potential donor involvement in scaling up DRR work
in the region, IECT has been proactively involved in promoting efforts to share experiences, bring
cross country clarity and encourage innovative concepts on DRR. Towards this, the first DIPECHO
managers meet was held in New Delhi, India in June 2008 that led to the first ever such meet to
discuss potential areas of sharing, learning as well as challenges. The meeting was a huge success
and resulted in formulating concrete steps and suggestions to make DRR work more meaningful and
efficient in the region.

This second DIPECHO Managers meeting thus brought together not only the DIPECHO/DRRS projects
in Asia, but also other countries programs with DRR initiatives, who also have the potential to be
future ECHO partners on disaster preparedness. Moreover, with increasing DRR initiatives in the
region, it was felt that the time is also ripe for finding avenues to bring synergy into the overall DRR
framework within AA country programs.

Objectives of the DIPECHO/DRR Managers Meet

The objective of the meet was to bring together DIPECHO/DRR managers from the region to
deliberate and provide concrete plans to strengthen DRR initiatives within country programs as well
as within the region. The meet intended to exploit the experience and expertise of DIPECHO/DRR
managers from the region to contribute to overall DRR framework of ActionAid human security
theme.

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Methodology

The DIPECHO/DRR managers meet was highly participatory. The high level of experience, expertise
and skills of the team was exploited during the workshop. The meet gave scope for individual as well
as collective presentations, brining synergy into the creative thoughts and ideas generated during
the meet. There was a country-specific, project-specific and regional specific discussion in addition
to deliberations within the larger human security theme framework of ActionAid International.

A panel discussion on Climate Change and DRR was organized to inform participants and bring clarity
into the thoughts of participants in developing appropriate action plans within RBA framework for
integrating CC within DRR initiatives at various levels.

The meeting also provided an opportunity for the participants to get to know each other, develop
rapport and camaraderie, considered crucial by IECT to improve understanding, quality and overall
efficiency through mutual sharing and learning.

The agenda of the meeting is attached in Annex 1.

Participants

The meeting was participated by Action Aids’ Asia regional DIPECHO and DRR managers as well as
representatives from IECT, AAI, project staffs. There were 21 participants in the 3-day meet in which
Ramesh Singh, AAI CEO, was present briefly. The senior Human Security team members included
Bijay Kumar, International Thematic Head (Human Security) and John Abuya, International DRS
Project Manager. The panel discussion on 29th of October 2009 had increased audience with over 45
people listening to the experts’ views on climate change and DRR. The invited guests included AA
team members from Nepal as well as representatives of other key stakeholders from the country.
The participants list is attached in Annex 2.

Proceedings of DIPECHO/DRR Managers Meet - DAY One, 28 October 2009

Inaugural Session, 28 October 2009, 90 min
Facilitator: P. V. Krishnan, DIPECHO Project Manager, Nepal

The meeting started with Mr. PV Krishnan, DIPECHO Manager in Nepal welcoming the participants
and wishing a fruitful meeting. He also briefly recapitulated the key outcome of the first
DIPECHO/DRR Meet held in New Delhi in June 2008, which came out with some interesting
suggestions for furthering DRR work in AAI.

Mr. Khem Raj Upadhyaya, welcomed the participants on behalf of the Country Director and senior
management team of ActionAid Nepal, who were hosting the meet. During his introductory remarks,
he underlined the strategic processes and revision of country strategy paper of ActionAid Nepal,
mentioning the organizational priority to disaster risk reduction as a cross cutting theme. He
emphasized that AAN has gone a step
ahead in incorporating the key learning
from DRR projects in the country into the
long term development initiatives
supported by AAN.

During his opening remarks, John Abuya,
the International DRRS Project Manager,
AAI shared his experiences in
mainstreaming DRR through the school
based approach. He mentioned that


ActionAid has gained huge experience through DRR through School Projects and there are exciting
opportunities ahead to scale up such approaches. He further shared that Action Aid has been
involved in many global networks influencing global policy framework and decisions on DRR. He
underlined the importance of incorporating climate change messages into DRR. John mentioned that
DRR and CCA work has good potential not just in terms of operational opportunities but also in
terms of streamlining the entire development work in AAI.

Mr. Paras Mani Tamang, IECT Asia Advisor introduced the participants to the ongoing DRR initiatives
in the region. He underlined the key objectives of IECT team, who are providing technical and
managerial support, including fund raising, to human security work in AAI that involves three strands
of operations, responding to emergencies, responding to conflicts and engagement in DRR.

This was followed by introduction of participants, who introduced themselves with their name,
affiliation and the work they are undertaking in DRR front.

Introducing the objective of the workshop and the expected outcomes, Krishnan underlined the
increasing investments in DRR that AAI has been making in Asia and the various appreciations and
acknowledgements that we have received over the years on the quality of work we do with the
people. Mr. Shaurabh Sharma, Finance and Administration Officer for AAN DIPECHO project briefed
on administrative and logistics arrangements.

While the workshop objective is listed above, the objective of the day 1 was to:

a) To learn from different country programs and identify key good DRR practices that has potential
for global replication
b) To understand the DRR policy praxis and identify potential policy interventions to be taken
forward by DIPECHO/DRR projects at national, regional and global levels

Session 2, Key Learning Session I: 28 October 2009, 120 minutes
Replicable DRR good practices and innovations from AAI
Session Facilitator: Adriano B. Nava, Jr, DIPECHO Project Manager, ActionAid Afganistan

The session started with Adriano underlining the objective of the
session, which was to draw out some of the innovations, good
practices and processes that have transcended local context and
have a potential for global learning and replication.

There were eight presentations in this session, drawing upon the
experiences from the field on practices that have potential for
global replication. The presentations included field experiences
from different countries. The presentations (maximum 10
minutes duration, on one or two practices) were as follows.

Country/Project Who Presented Content of Presentation in a nutshell
Bangladesh, DIPECHO Shakeb Nabi  Preparedness in institutions with high concentration
of population – experience of working with garment
workers in Dhaka
 Hospital Safety and Mass Casualty Management:
working with government and hospitals in
improving safety and preparedness
Vietnam, DIPECHO Rajindra Rohitha  Media Advocacy on DRR, harnessing strength and
influence of media to strengthen DRR policy and
action at government levels, case study of JANI
network in Vietnam/SE Asia


 Institutional capacity building at grassroots,
empowering the community through mobilizing and
awareness on DRR
Thailand, Rungtip  Tsunami response program in Thailand, with
Tsunami Response Imrungruang emphasis on psycho-social care among students,
children and other vulnerable groups
Cambodia, DIPECHO Aloysius James  Strengthening DRR plan and action at district levels:
Application of PVA in higher administrative units
Afghanistan, DIPECHO Adriano. B.  Small Scale mitigation efforts in flood zones and
Nava, Jr sand dune zones in Afganistan: Environmental
protection measures
International, DRRSP Nahakul Thapa  Development of DRR School Curriculum: processes
and outcomes that resulted in inclusion of DRR
within mainstream curricula in Nepal
 Child to parent approach in disaster preparedness:
Innovative approach to risk reduction
India, DIPECHO Gohain Mrinal  School centric approach to disaster risk reduction,
school safety in high vulnerable zones
Nepal, DIPECHO Shyam Sunder  Taking DRR to development route by linking
Jnavaly REFLECT and PVA
 Multi-stakeholder coordination, linking people to
policies for strengthening DRR framework in Nepal

Session 3, Key Learning Session II: 28 October 2009, 90 minutes
Identified good practices for documentation and international dissemination
Session Facilitator: Shakeb Nabi, DIPECHO Project Manager, ActionAid Bangladesh

In this session, the case studies, good practices and
lessons learned were taken for further detailed analysis, Five Good Practices for global
so as to identity five cases that will be converted into replication
technical papers for potential replication within and 1. Using PVA at district/higher level,
outside AAI. The participants were divided into separate Cambodia
groups and asked to prioritize the case studies keeping in 2. Media and DRR Common Tools,
mind a) potential for global replication b) viable practice Vietnam
3. Hospital Safety initiative,
that will have direct relevance to the objective of DRR
Bangladesh
work we are doing and c) AAI has gathered sufficient
4. DRR curriculum in schools, Nepal &
expertise in that matter. The groups were also asked to India
identify potential challenges in taking forward the good 5. Linking DRR discourse into REFLEFT
practices from the field. and PVA process, Nepal

Participants debated on the various case
studies that were presented. Subsequently, it
was decided to identify the top five cases for
follow up and taken up for publication at IECT
level. Country programs and managers were
encouraged to identify and document all the
good practices and lessons learned from their
own countries and projects. Participants later
took each of the cases and tried to address
various processes and challenges.

The summary of the group presentation is
given below:


Points of Practice 1 Practice 2 Practice 3 Practice 4 Practice 5
Discussions (Aloy, Harjeet, (Rohitha, Krish, (Shakeb, Ashok, (Nahakul, Adriano, ( Shyam, Khem,
Pratima) Megh) John, Jim) Swapan, Paras) Mrinal)

Why this Bottom up process Expanded outreach Main important Reach out to many Space for integration
case is Government and coverage to institution in disaster Training at childhood in all programmatic
universally commitment/various affected populations response Transferring sectors
declaration and stakeholders Saving lives knowledge Opportunities for
important
KL declaration, Media is a powerful Reducing causality Preparing next mass
UNISDR global plat advocacy tool and disability generations conscientization
form Rapid dissemination Dignity in post Establishing culture Opportunity for using
RCC declaration of DRR messages mortem perspective of preparedness HFA3 as an
First institution that Transfer of opportunity-driving
relates to everybody: knowledge vehicle for popular
poor or rich, women education in DRR
and men (applying REFLECT &
Not many PVA)
development actors
are working on it
Processes Working with Using Media Orientation of Sensitization of key Infusing DRR content
that we government fellowship as entry stakeholders on stakeholders across the sectors in
have Joint initiative with point hospital safety Making Government Education whether
others DRR orientation for Participatory gap accountable on DRR Non-
followed
coaching and journalists analysis Advocacy at different formal/Alternative/A
nurturing Exposure to DRR Formal agreement level dult literacy and
Developed tools and initiatives with stakeholders: Formation of task Formal
methods Technical support government force comprises of
Larger involvement from PC Orienting different DRR experts,
of commune leaders Prioritizing and key personals who educationist, CSO,
besides the adapting DRR work in hospital on people’s
departments messages disaster response representative,
Facilitating Guideline on Government etc.
publications of simulation and Development of
articles in various conducting periodic curriculum
media exercise frameworks by the
Dynamic contingency Task Force in
planning consultation with key
stakeholders at all
levels
Challenges New experience for Creating space and How do we involve Politics Limitations in
we have ActionAid interest on DRR with community with Developing an availability of
faced, that skills and capacity Popular media hospital safety? alliance itself a reference
with in organization Directing the Equal treatment for challenge materials/literature
can crop up
Mind set and attitude initiative towards a disaster effected and Training of on DRR, skilled
in working with larger policy group non-effected teachers/facilitators persons, even
government systems Assessing impact on Governance: Ethnic diversity (how adequate knowledge
audience enabling policy and to bring together (policy and practice)
Limited expertise implementation experiences of all
within media on DRR ethnic groups)

How to Document the Develop case study Concept/Strategy/Op Mobilizing funding Engaging with
move experiences as position paper erational guideline Developing existing community
ahead… Involve DA to take it Set up a working on hospital safety strategy/road map based government
forward group developing a Link with school Building alliance and civil society
disseminat
Sensitize the internal communication and curriculum structures
e… scaling team and ActionAid media strategy Documentation of Engaging with mass
up… family Involve good practice on movements
Sell the idea in Communication Focal hospital safety Compilation of
various forums person from IECT to reference materials
Use it as annex in take lead Cross-learning and and best practices for
the PVA guide the Publication and mass information taking popular
experience of dissemination by dissemination education on DRR
working with district IECT Communication forward (REFLECT
with PVA Advocacy to be taken and PVA inclusive)
Raise resources with up by the proponent
ECHO, AUSAID and (DIPECHO )
other donors


Key Decisions Taken in Lessons Learned/Good Practices session
The identified five good practices will be taken further for elaborate documentation as a technical
paper and subsequent publication for sharing. Focal points to gather information and develop
technical papers based on experience were decided, including the deadline for finalizing the article.
The key decisions and process are given in the following table:

Topic Lead person Process and deadline
Application of PVA in higher Overall focal point:
administrative and demographic levels – Paras Mani Tamang
Aloysius James
experience of PVA field application in
Cambodia Deadline for submission to Paras:
Engaging media in DRR work towards 7th December 2009
influencing advocacy – experience of Rohitha Rajendra
working with media on DRR in Vietnam Review by IECT team, submission
Hospital safety and mass casualty to IECT communication in charge,
management, experience from Shakeb Nabi Airlie Taylor: 15 Dec 2009
Bangladesh
Editing, fine tuning the case
School safety and curriculum
studies: 7 Jan 2010
development, experience from Nepal and Nahakul Thapa
India
Publication, both electronic and
Mainstreaming DRR into development, hard copies by IECT:
Shyam Jnavaly 15 Jan 2010
REFLECT and PVA process from Nepal

Session 4, Key Learning Session III: 28 October 2009, 90 minutes
DRR Policy Framework
Session Facilitator: Mrinal Gohain, DIPECHO Project Manager, ActionAid India
Key Presenter: Megh Ranjini Rai, DRR Policy Advisor

This session started with Megh making a presentation on DRR policy framework in
ActionAid, following up on the draft policy that was developed in the Nairobi meeting in
June 2009.

Megh mentioned that one of the key aims of
the IECT is for developing policies and practices
that enable poor people to reduce their
vulnerabilities. She gave a presentation on the
proposed DRR/CCA policy guidelines for AAI,
underlining the importance for AAI role in
reaching people’s voices to policy makers. She
explained the scope to undertake policy
advocacy work within countries as well as at
regional/global levels. She also shared some
upcoming directions in 2009 at local, national
and international level followed by the ISDR report on Global and European perspectives on
reducing disaster risk.

Following Megh’s presentation John Abuya talked about the current international
perspective on DRR and climate change. He mentioned that disaster is becoming more
frequent and uncertain and disaster risk reduction cannot be addressed unless we address


climate change. John shared about the model (Annex III) of linking Climate change adaptation and
Disaster Risk Reduction. He emphasized the need to fully understand the CC / DRR issues at local,
district, national and international levels. At local level, DDRSP and DIPECHO is working at grassroots
level addressing the underlying causes of disasters through a people centric initiative, linking techno-
managerial solutions, political initiatives as well as prevention and mitigation measures at various
levels, linking them to appropriate policy levels while ensuring knowledge generation to further
collective learning. DRR and climate change cannot be addressed in isolation. The information
generated will help to contribute to NAPA and must link with national disaster management strategy
and act. These must be discussed in global platforms of UNISDR and UNFCC for mitigation and
adaptation of climate change contributing to climate change for ecosystem justice. He also
addressed about Global Network which is a key institution, there is need for pushing national
platforms so as to bring up voices and perspectives of grassroots level on disaster and CCA.

The presentations were followed by open discussion on how AAI DRR/DIPECHO projects can
effectively engage in policy discourses at various levels. This led to some very critical suggestion to
improve the quality of our DRR policy work.

Key suggestions on DRR policy Framework
a. Participants will contribute to the draft policy framework developed in Nairobi in June 2009,
towards making it the final draft to be adopted by IECT. Megh will follow up with others and
ensure that the policy is placed to IECT management for adoption
b. DIPECHO/DRRS project will continue to engage in policy work, with principal aim of reaching
people’s voices to policy makers and ensuring that grassroots community are a part of policy
formulation process at various levels
c. IECT should involve managers, who understand the ground realties and are better prepared to
represent community voice, in various policy discourses at various levels
d. IECT should ensure that DIPECHO/DRR managers are kept in the policy discourse loop within AAI

The first day of the workshop ended with Nahakul drawing key lessons from the various
presentations in the day. This was done by asking participants one key thing they learned during the
day, which included the following topics. The evaluation for the day was also conducted in the form
of filling up evaluation sheet that was presented to all participants.

Proceedings of DIPECHO/DRR Managers Meet - DAY TWO, 29 October 2009

Day 2 started with Pratima giving a brief recap of the
previous day discussions. underlining Krishnan
welcomed the participants to the second day of the
workshop and iterated the key objective of the day as
follows:
a) To conceptualize and arrive at working agreements
on scaling up DRR work through a regional
approach, and
b) Learn from the Climate Change and DRR discourse
to gain ideas on how to incorporate climate change
discourses within the ongoing DIPECHO and DRRS
projects.

Claudia Amaral, DIPECHO focal point for DG ECHO, from SA Regional office in New Delhi, joined the
team. While she was a keen observer to the proceedings, she also gave time to individual DIPECHO
managers from SA to discuss project related issues.


Session 5, Key Planning Session: 28 October 2009, 300 minutes
Regional DRR initiatives by AAI
Session Facilitators: Paras Mani Tamang and Harjeet Singh, IECT Advisors

The second day was about key planning session/technical session of regional DRR
deliberations integrating DIPECHO and DRR within IECT and finding ways forward. The
session was facilitated by Mr. Paras and Mr. Harjeet. The facilitators shared the objectives of
this session as to come up with concrete plan/concept/framework towards developing
regional DRR/DIPECHO project and informed that the sessions should overcome differences,
arrive at consensus, seek commitment
and develop a blue print for moving
ahead with responsibilities and tasks
clearly identified, marked and assigned
to.

It was also suggested to think about
tapping resources as it is extremely
important to move forward. Paras also
shared some potential funding
organization like ECHO and AusAID
which needs to be explored through IPD. The facilitators formed guidelines for regional/sub-
regional initiatives on DRR/CCA, and also the participants were divided according to region
i.e. South Asia (SA) region and South East Asia (SEA) Region, for discussions. The guidelines
are listed in text box 2.

After more than an hour of discussions in the morning, mapping issues and way to move
forward in multi-country level projects, presentations were made by the two groups on their
respective regions. The findings of the groups, for regional level engagements are as follows:

South Asia Region South East Asia Region
Whereas South Asia is a hot spot for disasters, The common issues of South East Asia region are
there are issues like rivers and water sharing that disaster induced poverty and lack of coping
have become politically sensitive issues. In capacity of people and institutions. In all four
addition, seismic vulnerability is one cross cutting working country of ActionAid in SEA, there is low
issue across South Asian countries, which can awareness on DRR / Climate Change, inactive
perhaps form the basis for our regional approach CBDRM, inadequate grounding of HFA and
to DRR. There is a need to engage with regional insufficient ASEAN engagement.
actors like SAARC.
The key objective of regional initiatives will be
Based on the group discussions, the following capacity building of key stakeholders at regional
areas could be explored to the regional approach, and national levels, strengthening institutional
which will draw experiences from country frameworks, building awareness on DRR / CC at
programs but will have wider relevance. The five all levels, integration of DRR / Climate Change in
point agenda recommended for South Asia region the development planning and strengthening
are: national policies. Six strategies has been
highlighted which are as follows:
 Mass casualty management: Mapping existing  Engagement with ASEAN DRR Secretariat to
gaps, policies and resources on mass casualty strengthen regional policy and guidelines on
management, development appropriate DRR
guidelines. This will also include school and  Alliance building at national and regional
hospital safety, more on awareness/advocacy levels, supporting in-country coordination as
levels across the countries well as regional coordination systems


 Build Human Resource base: Based on the  Strengthening national platforms on DRR/CC,
previous DIPECHO funding to develop CBDRR helping nations to adhere HFA priorities
manual, develop a pool of  Engagement with ASEAN People’s Forum, to
trainer/professionals on CBDRR in various reach people’s voices to decision makers in
countries the region
 Lab to Land – make case studies into practical  Mobilization of Media Forums, linking DRR
guidelines from different DRR projects in the issues to popular media towards advocacy
region efforts
 DRR Media Professionals: Develop a pool of  Networking / Linkage with South Asian
media professionals on DRR across the platforms / forum on DRR / CC. Promote active
countries – promote media to influence policy platforms and forum at national and regional
decisions on cross-country issues, particularly level for shared ideas and designs
on mass casualty management

The presentation was followed by detailed analytical discussions by the participants. It was
also decided that Krishnan and Aloysius will fine tune the conceptual framework for SA and
SEA respectively by the end of November for SEA and end of December for SA. This is to be
circulated to all participants for their comments and suggsstions and then submitted to
IECT. Key points generated from the discussions included:

Ms. Claudia Borges Alvares Amaral, DRR TA of ECHO, India shared her views in this forum.
She highlighted ECHO’s perspectives working on DRR. DIPECHO has grown over the years
and is considered one of the important investments by ECHO. DIPECHO is no more just
piloting, but strengthening overall DRR work through lessons learned, scaling up and
engagement in policy strengthening initiatives in different countries.

She expressed excitement in listening to the presentations made on regional directives in
scaling up of DRR projects. She said that it was necessary to scale up to bring new
dimensions and ECHO’s perspective at the macro level. She felt that the issues identified in
the presentations were very interesting and relevant to scaling up to regional levels. She
also provided food for thought in terms of DRR advocacy/policy work at the regional level
concerning experiences of CBDRM. Existing examples, experiences and learning such as
School and hospital Safety are
international DRR issues that have
relevance in different countries and
could be replicated.

The regional DIPECHO TL underlined
the core essence of DIPECHO is to
work with the communities to
enhance their coping skills. So, the
works planned at country or multi -
country level should have direct Shyam, Claudia and Aloysius…
relevance to enhancing community’s deeply engrossed in the presentation
resilience to disasters. She also
mentioned that It is necessary to look at log frame indicators and see where school safety,
hospital safety, and mass casualty management can stand up and add value to scale up
these experiences in the countries that we work in. She also talked about working with
stakeholders and building their capacities as well as our own and brings in elements of
coordination. She added that ECHO is looking forward to seeing ActionAid regional projects
in the future and develop the opportunity to add value in DRR work in the region.


Points to Keep in Mind for Multi-Country DRR Projects

 The multi-country/regional project should be strategic in nature, adding value to
regional efforts in DRR. It should not be a sum of different country programs.
 The project should have direct community relevance. Anything that we do should
ultimately reflect in building community resilience to disasters
 Policy Advocacy at regional level should have concrete components that would have
direct impact on the disaster vulnerable people, not just in terms of policy formulation
but also in terms of policy implementation
 Enough piloting has been done. It is time to enlarge the scope through appropriate scale
up measures
 Any regional project should be based on our strengths, drawing from years of
implementing DRR projects in Asia
 Any regional effort should strengthen and add value to overall DRR work in the region,
not just for ActionAid. We should think in global terms and involve all stakeholders to
make it a true regional project
 Do not be ambitious to start with. Take up only winning issues and interventions that
can be justified.

Key decisions taken on regional proposals
 Concept papers will be developed based on the key recommendations from the
DIPECHO/DRR managers, as mentioned earlier.
 Aloysius will lead the South East Asia concept development. The first draft of concept
should be submitted to IECT by 30 Nov 2009
 Krishnan will lead the South Asia concept development. The first draft of concept should
be submitted to IECT by 31 Dec 2009
 IECT will start discussthe concept/project with potential donors. IECT will fine tune the
proposal for serious considerations by donors like ECHO.

Session 6, Key Learning Session: 29 October 2009, 120 minutes
Panel Discussion on “Climate Change and DRR”
Moderator: Khem Raj Upadhyaya, Head of Programs, ActionAid Nepal
Panelists: Bhusan Tuladhar, Ajay Dixit and Harjeet Singh

Impact of Climate Change is having an adverse effect on people. Climate induced disasters
have made lives and conditions even more uncertain, adding on the misery of the already
vulnerable community. Naturally, disaster risk reduction has to invariably embrace climate
change impact, so as to prepare the
community against possible uncertainties
in lives through climate induced disasters.

As a part of the ongoing debate on CC, the
AAI DIPEHCO/DRR managers meet
organized a panel discussion on Climate
Change and DRR, primarily to engage DRR
practitioners on climate change adaptation
and discussing ways and means for
practical application of CC adaptation into


ongoing DRR work. The organizers also invited practitioners and managers from other
international organizations and stakeholders to participate in the panel discussion, with twin
purpose of contributing to the debate as well as interacting with the AAI DRR team.

The panelists included Bhusan Tuladhar, Executive Director of ENPHA, Ajaya Dixit, Director
of ISET Nepal and Harjeet Singh, IECT Advisor for AAI. The panel discussion was moderated
by Khem Raj Upadhyaya, Head of Programs, AA Nepal.

The discussion started with Khem Raj
Panelists (L-R): introducing the topic. In his opening
Harjeet Singh, Bhusan Tuladhar and Ajaya Dixit remarks, he underlined the increasing
significance of Climate Change related
issues in DRR and the need for DRR to
comprehensively address adverse impact
of climate change on the most vulnerable
populations we work for. He touched
upon the ongoing debate of ‘Adaptation’
and ‘Mitigation’ and the need for
international agencies to address both
concerns at various levels. Khem Raj also
introduced the panelists and facilitated a
quick round of introduction from the nearly 40 participants who came to listen to and
engage in the discussions.

The experts’ presentation was started by Bhusan, who informed the audience about the
science of climate change, how the natural and manmade causes are responsible to raise
the green house gases (GHGs), the cause of global warming and climate change and its
impact on health, agriculture, water resources, forest and species. He talked about technical
as well as political point of view of climate change and updated on the process leading to
Copenhagen for COP 15. He shared the three ways of responding to climate change i.e.
mitigation, adaptation and carbon market
and negotiation processes. He emphasized
that mitigation may not be a problem, but
adaptation is an issue.

Harjeet, the second panelist, presented
ideas on how disaster risk reduction (DRR)
can be integrated with Climate change
adaptation (CCA). He mentioned that
climate change as an environmental issue
has been making impact in community and
shared the international commitments made over climate change and DRR and five
priorities of HFA. He mentioned that is necessary to look at how CC community link with
DRR and the linkages between DRR and CC? He further shared similarities and dissimilarities
of CCA and DRR. He emphasized that DRR is first line to defense against climate change and
HFA has been well advocated in supporting developing countries (particularly vulnerable) in
building resilience, providing compensation and ensuring rehabilitation for loss and damage.
He added that increasing threat of climate change is recognized as a source of great risk but
at the same time offers the potential for a ‘triple win’ – adaptation, DRR and poverty
reduction. He also shared the things to do in upcoming years.


The third expert in the panel, Ajaya Dixit gave some reflections on climate change and DRR
on the basis of eagle eye perspective (views of science) and toad’s eye perspective (people).
He started with history of fossil fuels and shared the changing pattern of temperature and
precipitation from the view of General Circulation Models. He noted that scientific
limitations need to be recognized as the scientific tools and models are inconsistencies
among themselves. He also shared the need of shared learning dialogue for CCA and DRR.

After the presentations from the experts, the moderator threw the floor open to the
audience. The discussions were very encouraging, prompting and thought provoking,
ranging from ongoing policy level initiatives in Nepal to direct implication of the climate
change debates like COP on the actual sufferers on ground. Over 30 questions were directed
to the panelists, who have to dwell deep into their experience and knowledge to satisfy the
curiosity of the participants, most of whom were managers and practioners of DRR.

The climate change and DRR panel discussion ended with Krishnan offering vote of thanks to
the panelists, moderator as well as the audience to make it a lively and enriching event.
Ramesh Singh, Chief Executive of AAI offered token mementos to the panelists and the
moderator. The panel discussion was followed by the Meet Dinner, joined by all workshop
participants and invited guests.

The second day of the DIPECHO/DRR managers meet was eventful in terms of participation
also. Ramesh Singh, Chief Executive of AAI graced the occasion with his presence, taking
time out of extremely busy schedule in Nepal. He also interacted exclusively with the
DRR/DIPECHO managers and IECT members, listening to the proceedings of the meeting and
responding immediately to
The team meeting Ramesh, CEO, AAI
some of the issues raised by
the participants aimed at
strengthening the entire DRR
fraternity within AAI. The
organizers of the event and
participants are grateful to
Ramesh Singh for spending
quality time with the team
members. Encouraging words
from the Chief Executive were
of immense motivation to the
participants.

The day also witnessed arrival of Bijay Kumar, International Thematic Head for Human
Security in AAI, who had plans to spend two days with the DIPECHO/DRR managers meet
and with Nepal team as a part of his planned field visit.

Claudia Amaral, DIPECHO Focal Point for South Asia from ECHO New Delhi office managed
to find time from her busy schedule to attend the DIPECHO/DRR managers meet on 29 Oct.
She appreciated this kind of internal sharing events by AAI and encouraged more such
sharing and cross learning between various country programs. She also shared her views on
DIPECHO programs, what lies ahead and possible future directions for projects.


THANK YOU BOSS!
Smiles All Around… A Moment to cherish…
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…participants with the Ramesh Singh, CEO, AAI after a highly encouraging meeting on 29 Oct 2009

Proceedings of DIPECHO/DRR Managers Meet - DAY THREE, 30 October 2009

The day started with a short introduction to the various sessions by Krishnan, followed by a
quick recap by Pratima on the key outcome and learning from previous day. The importance
of the day 3 is towards making plans for integration of climate change initiatives into DRR
work of AAI, drawing key lessons from the panel discussion held previous evening. Also, the
day will also look into irritants and challenges that affect DIPECHO projects, discussions on
ways and means to forge stronger partnerships for future and closing of the workshop.
Thus, the objective of Day 3 will be:

a) To identify practical and immediate action points on Climate Change Adaptation that
can be incorporated into ongoing DIPECHO/DRRS projects
b) To discuss organizational and operational difficulties and issues and arrive at
practical solutions to overcome problem areas

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation to ongoing DRR projects
Session Facilitators: Shyam Sunder Jnavaly, Asst. Project Manager, DIPECHO, AA Nepal

On invitation by the facilitator, Harjeet shared the
key learning from panel discussion on Climate
Change and DRR that has relevance to the ongoing
projects in AAI. He gave pointers to practical ideas
and methods that can be incorporated
immediately within DIPECHO and DRRS projects.
Harjeet highlighted some key future directions for
DRR and climate change at local, national and
international level. He added that identification of
vulnerable areas like costal, urban, mountainous,


lowland is necessary for climate change mapping and information dissemination is
necessary at levels below nationals. Orientation of community in CC and DRR has to be done
and community has to be asked the various changes they have been facing over the years.
We need to ask people why such changes are happening and the implications of such
environmental changes in the lives and livelihood of people. It is also essential to integrate
climate change into the PVA processes we are already undertaking, giving importance to
tools like seasonality to inform the changes in climate patterns at local levels. He suggested
that the best way we can move ahead is to bring the climate change realization from an
unconscious level to a conscious level within the community mindset, thereby engaging
them in the climate change DRR discourse and seeking solutions from the community itself
towards possible adaptation measures.

This was followed by group discussions on how to take forward climate change discourse
through the ongoing projects like DIPECHO and DRRS:

 Shared learning and dialogue with DRR stakeholders on climate change – Linking grassroots
community people, CSO, I/NGO and social movements in the discourse
 Climate change session on CBDRM/PVA/REFLECT and other training workshop curriculum for
staff, communities and other stakeholders
 Minor mitigation to address climate change adaptation through people centric initiatives
 Incorporate CC in project proposal design on awareness and adaptation
 Keep Climate change on thematic strategies for policy analysis

Group work: Ideas on how to integrate CC work into ongoing DRR work
 Engaging with the key policy makers at various  Build capacities in CPs on DRR and CC to create
levels: Enhance the awareness level of an environment to mainstream DRR and CCA in
practitioners on DRR CPs
 Molding designs of PVA tools to assess climate
 Constant dialogue and discourse with the
change impact
community to develop better understanding
 Developing understanding of the impact of CC
from community’s perspective on communities and linking it with
 Unconscious awareness to conscious awareness technical/scientific knowledge
stage: Community  Building capacities of the communities through
 Time dimension into PVA keeping CCA into awareness and training programmes
mind: traditional + Scientific knowledge  Advocate integrating CC in DRR School
programmes and the Education thematic works
 CC Education through schools Capacity building
of AA.
of the local governance systems
 Integrating CC in all thematic works of
 Developing monitoring indicators of DRR and
ActionAid
CCA in ActionAid
 Developing IEC materials
 HFA Audit
 Ensuring the voices of people are heard at
national level CC discourses

Group work: Ideas on how to integrate CC work into ongoing CPs
 See where we stand in terms of integrating DRR and climate change with country programs
 Address CCA and DRR in MOU with partners, ensure that CCA is mentioned across all thematic
functions
 Build more capacity within country programs and mainstream CC work within country program
 Identify DRR and CC indicators from Action Aid’s monitoring and evaluation system.
 Capacity building of own staff, partner staff and community leaders on climate change issues, build
institutional awareness on climate change
 Map timeline within the country program strategy also, integrate DRR into other thematic areas
 Find ways of linking climate change and DRR, as related policies are linked to HFA and UNFCCC
 Taking knowledge from environmentalist, and experts to incorporate with community works


Harjeet dictated some policy areas that DRR and DIEPCHO can
focus on, supplementing previous presentation made by Megh.
He focused on taking two key things; a) local level planning and
policy making and b) strong local governance. He addressed that
local level must need to do on policy, for this the community has
to be empowered, participate and negotiate themselves in local
level planning. There must be reflection of poor people in policy
making processes and right institutional mechanism to enhance
resilience to vulnerable people to disaster and climate change
impacts must be developed at national level. He further added
that at international level, right use of the funding for the poor
community is necessary and strong pressure groups are
necessary for accountable governments and donors.

Suggestions from the Meet - Integrating CC into DRR immediately

 The foremost thing to do is to make issues related to climate change into the
consciousness of the vulnerable community, allowing them to plan for future
uncertainties
 Bring in climate change discussions into the PVA process, utilizing tools like seasonality
chart to make people aware of the changing climate patterns and associated
uncertainties
 Bring in element of climate change awareness into the regular DRR awareness initiatives
 Draw the experiences of people, document them and insist on people’s voices to be
weighed at highest levels of policy making

Session 8, Key Learning Session: 30 October 2009, 90 minutes
Critical engagements between CPs on DRR
Session Facilitators: Rohitha Rajendra, DIPECHO Manager, AA Vietnam

It was agreed that this meeting provided
opportunity to work and learn together
on various issues and there is
tremendous potential for country level
engagements within and across regions.
Rajendra summarized the key learning
so far, which included identification of
replicable good practices, understanding
of DRR policy framework and scope for
deepening and widening our policy
work, initiatives for multi country
programs on DRR and integration of
climate change work into ongoing DRR
initiatives. This was done through a group work, seeking ideas on how country programs can
work together in bilateral and multilateral ways to strengthen collective mission.


Suggestions: Suggestion:
 Standardize IEC materials across the  Share the periodic update and reports
region, with options for contextualization within IECT team including reports to
 Ensure increased and efficient sharing of the DRRSP Manager, IECT
information between CPs, particularly communication (Airlie), IECT Advisors
within the region (Paras, Harjeet), DRRSP Policy Advisor
 Encourage higher critical engagements (Megh) and the DIPECHO/DRR
between DIPECHO/DRR projects in the Managers (DIPECHO).
region  Upload the DIPECHO/DRR project
 Keep IECT advisors in the loop as an learning documents resource materials
integral part of the communication in ActionAid main web sites/hive;
channel involve communication people on
 Develop capacities of country staff, building good case studies/write ups
project staff and communication team (DIPECHO).
 Take community facilitators/leaders/  Include/expand emergency roster of
frontline workers in the policy dialogues experts to include DIPECHO team
on climate change and DRR members, the team to find out from
their own CPs on this

Overcoming challenges, irritants to DIPECHO/DRR projects
Session Facilitators: Alolysius James, DIPECHO Manager, AA Cambodia

The last session of the three days meet was about the troubleshooting session which
focused on overcoming obstacles/irritants and recommendations. Aloy, facilitator for this
session, proposed discussion on two accounts –

 organizational (representing DRR among the senior management team and
engagement)
 Human resource (Retention of team, human resource development, recruitment
time gaps and gaps hr-pay rolls).

Three different groups discussed issues
related to the following:
 Human Resources
 Capacity Building
 Programmatic Integration
 What lies ahead for IECT
 creative ideas and opportunities to
strengthen overall DRR work within
AAI.

The following is the summary of the group
presentations:

Human Resources Issues

Retaining DIPECHO team, particularly local team members: With DIPECHO becoming more
institutional with repeated contracts over the years, the 3-4 months gap from one project to


another, results in good team members with considerable experience and skills joining
elsewhere is an issue. CPs should strategise to retain DIPECHO team members and poritively
capitalize their skills and experience to enhance DRR work in countries.

Building capacities and skills of DIPECHO staff: DIPECHO is considered a project and not a
core program, country programs do not invest in the capacity enhancement of the project
staff. Whereas DIPECHO project team members are expected to deliver, ensure highest
quality results and often work under pressure to deliver without capacity development
opportunities. AAI should ensure that DIPECHO team members are also a part of the
organizational capacity building measure.

Project Team vs. Core Team: In most of AA CPs, project teams are considered separate from
core teams and are not often included in the organizational discourses due to their short
term ‘project’ nature. Uniformity is required in this case as some CPs compensated project
staff more than core staff due to their short term nature and special skill they bring and
some CP’s don’t. This needs review and uniformity is desired for project staff to be
integrated to the core function of AAI CPs as an overall AA team.

Retaining Talents: AAI should consider engaging the professional staff of DIPECHO/DRRS
projects by providing them professional opportunities during lean period. Usually, there is a
3-4 month gap between the new and old project cycle and AAI should ensure that DIPECHO
managers with proven skills and competence are utilized within the organization.
Suggestions for possible involvement could be in project assessments, proposal and report
writing, conducting training events etc. This will lead to retention of the available
professional talents within the organization.

Institutional Issues

Utilizing Professional Expertise: DIPECHO
managers come with diverse skills,
knowledge, expertise and experience but
CP’s hardly utilize it though the managers
are willing to contribute. It would be
beneficial for CP’s to utilize the expertise
of the managers despite their short term
positions.

Contributing to Strategic Management:
DIPECHO managers are seldom a part of
the senior management team in country
programs despite their maturity, experience and expertise. As an integral part of AA staff
member, DIPECHO managers, will be able to contribute meaningfully in SMTs as a
professional brining in internal / external perspectives and analysis.

DIPECHO Managers in IECT Network: DIPECHO managers are not yet a part of wider IECT
network and thus are not in the information sharing loop. IECT should provide scope and
opportunities to DIPECHO managers in relevant communication and information sharing
systems.


Role Clarity among Advisors: Field managers are often in a spot with often conflicting and
confusing mails on the roles of IECT / DRRS advisors. IECT should ensure clarity of roles in
this case. It is also suggested that IECT designate a particular person with particular
project/plan/program, to ensure that there is uniformity in communication and strategic
involvement with the donor.

Use in-house resources: With so much expertise available in DRRS/DIPECHO team IECT
could utilize this resource rather than hiring external consultants. This could reduce costs
while providing opportunity for team members of DRR projects.

Programmatic Issues

Integrating Projects within Programs: While AA as a whole has been strengthening
integration of projects as key program components, there is scope to make projects
strategic in nature than funding opportunities alone. Projects should in fact contribute to
and strengthen the core development inputs by AAI, ensuring that outcome of the projects
contribute to overall development impact in the area. This will also require more concerted
effort by AAI management and the respective CPs, including investment in building project
management capacities of the organization and team members. In this aspect,
DIPECHO/DRR projects with their strong and proven credentials as efficient managers could
be utilized to develop the necessary skill and capacity for the CPs to build their own project
management portfolio.

Integrating DRR into the development plans: It has become increasingly evident that DRR is
not just an option but viable solutions to protect longer terms investments. Country
programs should use DRR as insurance to the development plans and investments. DIPECHO
and DRRS project can play a vital role in helping the country programs to integrate DRR into
their core development initiatives.

Need for Human Security Focal Point: With DRR becoming a prominent initiative in most of
the CPs in Asia, CPs have not yet given impetus to build adequate human resources to deal
with human security issues and some CPs do not have HS focal point too. The team urges
AAI to ensure that all CPs have dedicated HS focal point to streamline and integrate HS and
DRR initiatives into the longer term perspective of AA CPs.

Ideas for Future

IECT Consultants: With a large number of top professionals with varied expertise and
experience, why not develop a crack team of professional consultants within IECT, offering
services to other organizations. This increases our overall reach, visibility and will surely
generate some income too.

DRR as the central AAI theme: IECT should focus itself to promote DRR as the central theme
around which other themes function. Risk Reduction makes business sense and is
understood to act as an insurance to protect long term development investment. Thus, DRR
should be central to all other initiatives of AAN. IECT should engage in internal advocacy
with the board to make DRR the central theme


IECT USP is DRR in development: Oxfam for public health and hygiene, UNICEF for WATSAN,
SCF for Child Rights, CARE for food and nutrition Why not develop IECT USP in DRR, offering
our expertise, models and plans for worldwide replication, engage in advocacy with
governments and donors.

Session 10, Closing Session: 30 October 2009, 60 minutes
Session Facilitators: PV Krishnan, DIPECHO Manager, AA Nepal

The final session started with Krishnan doing a quick recap of the key outcomes of the three
day workshop. He noted that it has been a remarkable three days, with high level of
energies among participants that led to analytical inputs, key decisions, strategic directions
and relevant suggestions to take the DRR mission forward. He underlined the key outcomes
as follows:

a) identification of global replication models in DRR work
b) clear guidelines towards regional proposals in South Asia and South East Asia,
c) clear understanding of policy engagements by the team members, ensuring voices of
people are reaching the highest policy making bodies at every level,
d) understanding of Climate Change issues, its relation to DRR and immediate
integration of climate change adaptation to ongoing DRR work in CPs,
e) Key considerations towards country level engagements and cooperation in DRR, and
f) Key suggestions to find solutions to some of the issues that are considered irritants
to DRR projects like DIPECHO

John Abuya remarked that this meeting has been a very
good effort, to bring together DRR professionals as well
as key IECT members. He expressed satisfaction and
underlined the need to bring in climate change
component into the DRR work. We cannot afford to
neglect or feign ignorance over this anymore. It is not
only imperative for us to take forward CCA through our
DRR work, it also makes sense because there is lots of
opportunities to engage ourselves in CC related work.
He concluded his remarks by wishing all the best to the participants in their ensuing work
and programs.

Bijay Kumar, International Thematic Head for Human Security, during his address to the
participants, thanked the organizers and IECT team to invite him to this purposeful meet,
which he found very productive and useful to IECT in particular and AAI in general. He
expressed high level of satisfaction over the
outcome of the meetings and congratulated
all the team members for doing exceptional
work with the communities.

Bijay used this unique opportunity stress
three aspects on the DRR theme, which
forms the core of ActionAid thinking. Bijay
talked about three things, critical to any
DRR/human security work worldwide. He
stressed on:


 the need to balance people-political and techno-managerial solutions to humanitarian
and DRR issues: All crises and its impact on poor has a high level of political dimension
and AAI work at various levels to understand this aspect and take up political discourse
on DRR
 the need to link climate change with DRR: Our direct work with the community gives us
the legitimacy to take their issues to worldwide forums. We should thus realize our
strengths and go for negotiations armed with people’s perspective ground realties.
 the issue of governance as a key ingredient of risk reduction: DRR can become effective
and can reduce risks only if the governance is just, equitable, accountable, transparent
and efficient. This means that DRR work cannot be a stand alone entity. It should be an
integral and core component of all our thematic works including education, food
security and governance.

Touching upon some of the key issues raised during this meet, Bijay assured the participants
to do whatever possible to address all the concerns, both within the organization as well as
with other stakeholders wherever necessary.

Following Bijay was Paras, who was invited to
offer vote of thanks and close the three day
workshop. Paras expressed his gra titude to the
participants for taking time off to participate
and contribute handsomely to this wonderful
meet that obviously achieved its planned
objective and exceeded anticipated outcomes.
He profusely acknowledged and appreciated
the DIPECHO Nepal team and the senior
management of AAN for ensuring high level of
professional efficiency in organizing this meet,
including providing all logistics and administration support to participants from other
countries. He wished a fruitful travel to the field for people who are proceeding to planned
field visit. With his closing remarks, the three days eventful and remarkable workshop came
to an end.


Evaluation of DIPECHO/DRR Managers Meet

The organizing team from AAN conducted evaluation of the three days team, including daily
feedback forms and end-of-event evaluation with an aim of understanding participants
perception on the content and organization as well as to find scope for improving similar
events of future. The findings from the evaluation are given below in a nutshell:

Evaluation was done on a 5-point scale, where 5 denoted excellent and 1 denoted poor. The scores given are
the average taken from all the participants, 18 respondents on Day 1 and 12 on Day 2 and 3.

I. Lessons & Good

III. Regional DRR

IV. Integrating

Engagements
CCA into DRR
II. DRR Policy

between CPs
Framework
Evaluation Criteria/Sessions

VI. Overall
initiatives
Practices

planning

V. DRR
work
Session structure 3.6 3.4 3.1 3.3 3.6 3.4

Achievement of Objective 3.4 2.9 3.9 3.5 3.8 3.5

Relevance of topic 3.7 3.6 3.8 3.7 3.9 3.8

Facilitation of session 3.8 3.4 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.8

Appropriateness of contents 3.5 3.4 3.8 3.6 3.8 3.6

Time allotted 3.0 2.6 3.4 3.5 3.8 3.5

Participation/group work 3.8 3.2 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.6

Did the workshop meet the set objective 3.8
Was the investment to attend this workshop justified 3.8
Are similar learning and dialogues required for future 3.9
Did the issues and concerns come out for discussion and were addressed 3.8
Administration, logistics, food, refreshments etc. 4.0

What did you like MOST in this meet?
 It gave an opportunity to meet DIPECHO/DRR people
 Cross learning that happened between the team members
 Professional approach to organize meet and achieve set objectives
 Sharing of experiences, specifically the good practices we identified or replication (3)
 Participation of senior leaders in the meet
 Quality of overall discussion and debates
 All sessions were very useful, wonderfully done… open session after each session was
good
 Panel discussion on CCA and DRR
 Ajaya Dixit Presentation during Panel Discussion
 The way we came out with Action Plans and decisions


What did you like LEAST in this meet?
 Time management…
 Discussions tended to drag because of one person who came out with topics which
were not a part of that session and taking away too much time
 DRR/CCA policy framework session

What are your suggestions for next meeting? Comments are welcome…
 Make the meet twice in a year
 Make materials and documents ready, in hardcopy in advance
 More time to be given for experience sharing, invite AAI senior management and ECHO
 DIPECHO PMs should meet once in a quarter
 Include a session on socio-economic and political analysis, forte of AAI
 Make the meet for 4-days, more relaxing…

Overall, the workshop was perceived to be a huge success. The workshop achieved its set objectives
and outcomes were more than encouraging to move into the next level of DRR discourse within
AAI/IECT.


ASIA DIPECHO/DRR MANAGERS MEET
28 Oct – 30 Oct 2009, Nepal

AGENDA & SCHEDULE
Day I Day II Day III
Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 Thursday, 29 Oct 2009 Friday, 30 Oct 2009
0830 hrs Welcome, Introduction of Recap, Day II objectives
Recap, Day III Objectives
to participants, Introduction
1030 hrs to the Meet, Address by Regional DIPECHO –
Integrating Climate Change
AAN CD, Deliberations
into DIPECHO/DRR initiatives
AAN Overview, IECT Asia
Key Planning Session II
Overview, Ground rules Key Planning Session I
Refreshment break
1100 hrs Innovations and Good
Working together, critical
to Practice – Country-wise
Regional DIPECHO – engagements between CPs
1230 hrs presentations
Deliberations
Key Learning Session V
Key Learning Session I
Lunch
1400 hrs Overcoming obstacles and
Lessons from programs and
to irritants, Recommendations
process – What worked Regional DIPECHO – Final
1530 hrs for future
well? What did not? plans and road map
Key Learning Session II
Key Planning Session III
Refreshment Break
1600 hrs DRR Policy Framework –
to Critical engagements at
1730 hrs country, region and Panel Discussion on
Overall recap
international level Climate Change Adaptation
and DRR
Address by Head of IECT
Key Learning Session III
Concluding remarks
1730 hrs Key Learning Session IV
to Recap of the Day
1800 hrs


ASIA DIPECHO/DRR MANAGERS MEET
28 Oct – 30 Oct 2009, Nepal

PARTICIPANTS' LIST

SN Name Office Name & Address Email Photographs
Designation

1 ADRIANO B. NAVA, JR. ActionAid International adriano.nava@actionaid.org
DIPECHO Project Manager House No. 705, Taimani,
Street 9, Kabul,
Afghanistan

2 ALOYSIUS JAMES ActionAid Cambodia, Aloysius.james@actionaid.org
DIPECHO Project Manager #69, Street 242, Sangkat
Chaktomuk,
P O Box 66, Khan
Daun Penh, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia 12200

3 CLAUDIA AMARAL Regional Support Office Ta02@echo-india.org
DRR TA South Asia, ECHO
C384 Defense Colony,
New Delhi, India

4 HARJEET SINGH International Emergencies harjeet.singh@actionaid.org
Emergencies and Conflict and Conflict Team (IECT)
Advisor – Asia and Americas E-88, Saket, New Delhi-
110 017, India

5 MEGH RANJANI RAI International Emergencies Megh.Rai@actionaid.org
DRR Policy Adviser( DRR and and Conflict Team (IECT)
DIPECHO PROJECTS) E-88, Saket, New Delhi-
110 017, India

6 GOHAIN MRINAL ActionAid India, Mrinal.Gohain@actionaid.org
Regional Manager R-7, Hauz Khas Enclave,
New Delhi-110 016

8 WELIHINDAGE RAJINDRA ActionAid Vietnam, Room Rohitha.rajindra@actionaid.org
ROHITHA No. 502A, HEAC Building,
DIPECHO Project Manager 14-16, Ham Long Street,
Hanoi, Vietnam


9 RUNGTIP IMRUNGRUANG 60/1, Monririn Building rungtipjim@gmail.com
nd
Program Officer Tower A, 2 Floor, Unit
A201, Soi Phaholyothin
Rd., Samsennai, Phyathai,
Bangkok 10400

10 SHAKEB NABI House CES (E) 19 shakeb.nabi@actionaid.org;
DIPECHO Project Manager Road 128 nabi.shakeb@gmail.com
Gulshan 1
Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh

11 Ashagbam Swapan Kumar ActionAid Regional office, Swapan.Singha@actionaid.org
Singha Guwahati, Assam, India
Program Officer

12 PARAS MANI TAMANG House CES (E) 19 Paras.tamang@actionaid.org
IECT Asia Advisor Road 128
Gulshan 1
Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh

13 JOHN ABUYA ActionAid Kenya John.abuya@actionaid.org
International Project Manager
(DRRS project)

14 KHEMRAJ UPADHYAYA ActionAid Nepal, P.O.Box Khemraj.upadhyaya@actionaid.
Program Head No. 6252, Lazimpat, org
Kathmandu Nepal

15 NAHAKUL THAPA ActionAid Nepal, P.O.Box Nahakul.thapa@actionaid.org;
National Coordinator (DRRS No. 6252, Lazimpat, Nahakul.thapa@gmail.com
Project) Kathmandu Nepal

16 PV KRISHNAN ActionAid Nepal, P.O.Box Krishnan.pv@actionaid.org
DIPECHO Project Manager No. 6252, Lazimpat,
Kathmandu Nepal

17 SHYAM SUNDARY JNAVALY ActionAid Nepal, P.O.Box Shyam.jnavaly@actionaid.org
DIPECHO Asst. Project No. 6252, Lazimpat,
Manager Kathmandu Nepal


18 ASHOK RAJ POKHAREL ActionAid Nepal, P.O.Box Ashokraj.pokharel@actionaid.or
DIPECHO Project Officer No. 6252, Lazimpat, g
Kathmandu Nepal

19 PRATIMA SHRESTHA ActionAid Nepal, P.O.Box Pratima.shrestha@actionaid.org
DIPECHO Project Officer No. 6252, Lazimpat,
Kathmandu Nepal

20 SHAURABH SHARMA ActionAid Nepal, P.O.Box Shaurabh.sharma@actionaid.or
DIPECHO Finance & Admin No. 6252, Lazimpat, g
Officer Kathmandu Nepal


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