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Key Points
- Green Recovery and Reconstruction: Training
Toolkit for Humanitarian Action (GRRT)
- Mainstreaming Environment in Humanitarian
Action – Myth Busting
- Innovation and Mainstreaming - Moving
Anita van Breda World Wildlife Fund May 2013 Key Points Green - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Anita van Breda World Wildlife Fund May 2013 Key Points Green - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Advisory Group on Environmental Emergencies Forum: Open Source Training Anita van Breda World Wildlife Fund May 2013 Key Points Green Recovery and Reconstruction: Training Toolkit for Humanitarian Action (GRRT) Mainstreaming
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World Wildlife Fund Disaster Reduction and Response Program Goal The goal of the program is to ensure that disaster recovery, reconstruction and risk reduction efforts include environmental considerations and sound management of natural resources.
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Disaster Time Line Time line
Emergency Relief
Disaster
Reconstruction 0 days weeks months 2 years 5 years Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk assessment, mitigation/prevention, preparedness Early Recovery Transition Recovery Development
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A Green Recovery Program
Livelihoods Water & Sanitation Disaster Management Shelter
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More Guidelines or a Checklist?
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Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit and Training
- The toolkit development team was
made up of 30 technical specialists, training specialists, and global reviewers representing 17 agencies (e.g., IFRC, Oxfam, Mercy Corps, World Vision, UNEP, UN/ISDR, CARE)
- Minimalized organizational logos
- Approach to post disaster recovery
and reconstruction processes is solution-oriented
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Six Principles of Green Recovery and Reconstruction
- 1. “Do No Harm” to the environment and beneficiaries
- 2. Recognize that addressing the environment has multiple
benefits
- 3. Take ownership (you cannot always “subcontract”
responsibility to others)
- 4. Build back safer
- 5. Be solution-oriented
- 6. Emphasize the use of local knowledge and the continuum
from relief to development
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10 Program Modules
Green Guide to: 1. Opportunities for Green Recovery and Reconstruction: An Introduction 2. Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation 3. Environmental Impact Assessment Tools and Techniques 4. Strategic Site Selection and Development 5. Materials and the Supply Chain 6. Construction 7. Water and Sanitation 8. Livelihoods 9. Disaster Risk Reduction 10. Green Organizational Operations
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Mod 1 Ses 1
www.green-recovery.org
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The Environment and Myth Busting
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Myth #1 Not Part of Policy or Standards
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The Sphere Project
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Code of Conduct for Disaster Relief
8: Relief aid must strive to reduce future vulnerabilities to disaster as well as meeting basic needs ….. We will pay particular attention to environmental concerns in the design and management of relief programmes…..
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Hyogo Framework for Action
(i) Environmental and natural resource management (a) Encourage the sustainable use and management of ecosystems, including through better land-use planning and development activities to reduce risk and vulnerabilities. (b) Implement integrated environmental and natural resource management approaches that incorporate disaster risk reduction, including structural and non- structural measures
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Myth # 2 Too Late
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Myth # 3 Takes Longer and Costs More
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Myth # 4 No Impact for People
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Removing Barriers and Fostering Innovation Is Training Enough?
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Assessments and Project Designs
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The Power of Demonstration
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Co-Location of Staff and Teams
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Opportunities for Innovation and Mainstreaming?
- 1. Multiple Actors/Multiple Responsibilities
Practioners Institutional Leadership and Policies Donors
- 2. Research and Learning
- 3. Partnerships - in advance of disaster focused
- n better practices at scale
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Thank you
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