Everywhere Ray Kancharla Head of DRR CCA, Save the Children Member - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

National Conference on

Sustainable Development Goal SDG #1

14 March 2018, IHC, New Delhi

March 14, 2018

Ray Kancharla

Head of DRR – CCA, Save the Children

Member of Global DRR Working Group on DRR –CCA, Save the Children International

End Poverty in All its Forms

Everywhere

Climate Change altered weather cyclones, and transformations in the environment, are having a big negative impact. Life goes completely tospy turvy as a result of the floods. In particular, our farmer brethren have to bear a lot of losses because of the damage to their crops and fields… - Hon. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi

Communities, Government and Civil Society – jointly worked for a peaceful transformation at the local level

ALL HAZARDS, RISKS AND DISASTERS AND RISKS – WHOLE OF SOCIETY APPROACH

38 – 40% are Children under 18 years

Poverty Inequality Climate Change

SDG 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable 1.5: Target: By 2030, build resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure to vulnerability to climate related extreme events, and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters

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Poverty is inter-generational; so is disease burden (such as Tuberculosis, etc.) and other development indicators such as survival, education, health, protection, livelihood, etc. More than ever, our children both globally, nationally and locally are experiencing more risk than ever before Such risks and vulnerabilities turning into Disasters are rising at an unprecedented scale, both as extreme events as well as every day risks 1 in 6 children is affected by conflict of one form or other All disasters have displaced individuals and communities, especially the poor and marginalized – often making them IDPs – deprived of Identity and Social Entitlements Depleting rural resources and migration to urban areas Un-planned Urbanization and its rapid growth Changing Climatic conditions and its impact on future of women, children and youth

Risks to Children and Youth are increasing more than ever?????

Context Today

Poor Land use Drinking Water Shortage Poor Solid Waste Management Poor Housing Conditions Living proximity to polluting industries & dumping grounds Encroachments Heavy Flooding & Inundation due to low plinth level Large presence

• f small scale

industries & related pollution Earthquakes & Tremors High Population Density

Factors contributing to vulnerability

Study CDRI, an initiative of Kyoto University and SEEDS

Resilience is the extreme opposite of Vulnerability

Rural – Urban – Migratory Processes and Next-Gen Challenges

Develpoment & Climate Smart Community Policy to Practice

Asian Ministerial Conference on DRR – New Delhi, November 06, 2016

– Asia Regional Plan

Priority 3: Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience

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a) Establish/strengthen regulatory frameworks to reinforce risk consideration in structural and non-structural investments. b) Promote national mechanisms for disaster risk transfer and insurance as appropriate. c) Increase resilience and integrate disaster risk reduction into business models, corporate practices, and supply chains through intensified partnerships between the private sector, local government and other stakeholders. d) Promote appropriate financial mechanisms to integrate disaster risk reduction considerations and measures to support the building of disaster resilient communities by engaging development funds, banks, private foundations and stakeholders. e) Allocate resources to local governments as appropriate to implement DRR measures. f) Institutionalize community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) to strengthen resilience of households and communities . g) Strengthen education on disaster and climate risk reduction and

accelerate the implementation of comprehensive school safety.

h) Invest in the development of resilient health systems, and design and implementation

• AMCDRR – 2016, November:
• Asia Regional Plan for Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Asia Regional Plan and Implementation

 Develop a national system of disaster damage and loss, applying international standards such as DALA, PDNA and methodologies for age, gender and

disability-disaggregated data; feed the data into national

statistical system on disasters and make non-sensitive data and information available in public domain;  Develop and/or strengthen national disaster loss database that is disaggregated to local level; and systematically record disaster loss and

damages due to both small and large scale disasters.

“Children and youth are

agents of change and should be given the space and modalities to contribute to Disaster Risk Reduction, in accordance with legislation, national practice and educational curricula..”

UNISDR – Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, Page 20

EDUCATION & COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL SAFETY

At the very inception of this project, children and youth from different states of India came and demonstrated their understanding of risk, school disaster management planning and their role in monitoring and implementation. Children Group (CG) – a leadership group within the School - became an important driver for School Safety it was firmly established due to the experience of pioneering Civil Society initiatives and demonstration by the Children Groups that,

“Children are the Starting Point of any School Safety initiative”

and not projects….

Comprehensive School Safety Framework

Priority 1:

 The awareness should be customized as per the age appropriate means of communication

Priority 2:

 Local Participation of children, youth and other vulnerable communities is to be included; and it should be included in the local political agenda

Priority 4:

 Safe Learning Zones and Communities and it should be the Right of Children and Youth

Priority 3:

 Budget for DRR and CCA to be included in Development and accountability to be shared with Children and Youth

Voices of Children and Youth Priority 3: INVEST IN DRR FOR RESILIENCE

Voices and Perspective of Children and Young towards local implementation Everyday Risks:

HOME – SCHOOL – HOME (mitigate risk while travelling)

Child Protection and DRR

 Children’s Group should be formed and strengthened in every village, slum, etc. – to promote Children and Youth Leadership and participate in decision-making

Health and DRR

 Here DRR means Disease Risk Reduction

Education

 Every School must be Safe Always  Our mantra is: ‘0’ D + ‘0’ D (Zero Deaths and Zero Days Lost in School)

Building safer and resilient children and communities (includes, Mothers and Others – local governance, line departments, etc.)

C H I L D R E N & YOUTH

MOTHERS & Others

EMPOWERED TO ACHIEVE THEIR RESILIENCE

Child Centred Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) & Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) approach and initiatives in India

Development

• f Life Sustaining

Services

• 1. PROTECTING THE PROGRESS /

GAINS MADE BY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

Health, WASH & Nutrition Education Livelihood Protection Progress / Gains

Non-emergency Non-emergency

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

Time Time

• 3. A safe place - physical and psychosocial protection
• 2. Window of opportunity to improve access (include

the excluded) and quality 4 4. Platform for lifesaving/life-sustaining interventions

• Preparedness &

Contingency Planning

• Early Warning
• Flexible Funds

(Crisis Modifiers)

• Resilience Building
• Climate Change Adaptation

Development

• f Resilience and

Adaptation Services

Child Centred Poverty Reduction & Climate Change Adaptation

Our Mantra is: H-E-L-P CCA

Child Centred Resilience and Adaptation

Comprehensive School Safety

T echnology Innovations – form the key Triangle with the key outcomes of Family Resilience Planning & Institutionalisation in Schools and Local Governance

Child Centred Disaster Risk Reduction – Climate Change Adaptation Key outcomes

Climate Score Card

RISK AWARENESS

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ENHANCE RESILIENCE

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POTENTIAL ACTIONS

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Coordination Technology

Edu-Department

Local Governance Children Platform Enlarged Network Private Sector Scientific Community Community

• f Practice

5 Pillars of Action:  Children Participation  Community Level Actions  Institutional Capacity Strengthening  Policy Advocacy  Mainstreaming / Institutionalizing

CHARTER OF DEMANDS FOR

• 01. Promote and Practice Inclusive Risk & Vulnerability informed planning and

implementation – with segregated focus on Children, Youth, Disabled, Women, and other vulnerable groups

• 02. Unify the End Poverty Strategy with End Inequality and End Climate Change – hence,

the strategy is “EPICC”

• 03. Adopt Education and Comprehensive School Safety to drive Next Gen Resilience –

as a End Poverty – Inequality – Climate Change Strategy – by including in Curriculum

• 04. Enable representation of children and youth in decision as Future Leaders of Ending

Poverty and Building Resilience at the Local Level

• 05. Make Child Rights as essential part of End Poverty and Climate Change – Right to

Life with Dignity and Resilience

Building resilience to climate change and end poverty – NEXT GEN… Focus

3 most important pledges to action

CHILDREN CAN’T WAIT EDUCATION CAN’T WAIT CLIMATE WON’T WAIT