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Community-Based Comprehensive Recovery

Working together to recover faster

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 313308

Martijn Neef – TNO Innovation for Life, The Netherlands Technical coordinator COBACORE project Future Security 2014 – 16-18 September 2014, Berlin

THE COBACORE PROJECT – A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH TO DISASTER RECOVERY

The call for innovation

Next generation damage and post-crisis needs assessment tool for reconstruction and recovery planning Complex crises situations, wide regions affected operational areas potentially worldwide and growing needs for longer- lasting operations pose specific demands on the reconstruction and recovery planning capabilities of relief forces. This project aims at improving reconstruction and recovery planning capabilities of relief units by providing them with technologically improved, faster and more interoperable assessments tools as available today.

The COBACORE project

Community-Based Comprehensive Recovery

An EU funded project that aims to:

• close collaboration gaps between communities that play

a role during disaster recovery

• make it easier to match needs with capacities
• help affected communities to voice their needs and find

communities that can help

The disaster management challenge

Climate Change; Economic Trends; Political Shifts; and Societal Trends Increasing pressure on response and recovery

Disaster recovery

Disaster recovery is about bringing a disaster stricken area back into a stable, self stable, self stable, self stable, self-

• sustainable state

sustainable state sustainable state sustainable state

– many communities, many societal functions – many interdependencies with surrounding areas – long term effects on all facets of life

• restoration of infrastructures
• property reconstruction
• institutional recovery
• economic recovery
• social and cultural recovery

built environment social, cultural and educational domain economical domain mobility & transport vital infrastructures healthcare security and safety institutional domain environmental domain quality of life

Many communities

municipalities military

• rganisations

volunteers social groups

• nline technical

volunteers professional care

• rganisations

donors and advocacy groups businesses national governments civilians media NGO’s needs capacities

Many collaboration gaps

Many opportunites

The approach

• Develop a

Develop a Develop a Develop a vision vision vision vision on how communities can work together to recovery faster from disasters

• Build a demonstration

Build a demonstration Build a demonstration Build a demonstration platform platform platform platform that shows how current technologies can make that happen

• Create a network of

Create a network of Create a network of Create a network of supporters supporters supporters supporters that can adopt the COBACORE outcomes and bring it into practice

Community-Based Comprehensive Recovery

The COBACORE communities

COBACORE issues

responding responding responding responding community community community community responding responding responding responding professionals professionals professionals professionals affected affected affected affected community community community community self self self self sustaining sustaining sustaining sustaining community community community community

needs & capacity matching

The COBACORE approach

• The COBACORE platform closes collaboration gaps
• Support self-sustaining communities
• More effective recovery

Needs overview Community-generated data Community awareness Marketplace Volunteer management Volunteer training Activity mapping

The COBACORE platform

for professionals for professionals for professionals for professionals

• verview of needs, capacities, actors and

activities

• merge operational data with community-

generated data

• targeted communition means for status

updates and instructions

• joint activity planning with communities

for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities

• means to voice needs and willingness to help
• make matches and join recovery activities
• personalised status updates
• btain instructions from professionals

for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities

• means to voice needs and willingness to help
• make matches and join recovery activities
• personalised status updates
• btain instructions from professionals

• The COBAgame:

– a gamified evaluation of the COBACORE concepts – live testing of the platform and interaction concept – professionals and volunteers acting out the different communities from partitioned locations – test the efficiency of self-organisation among groups with and without the COBACORE platform

Testing the concept

intermediate evaluation

• June 2014, Rotterdam NL
• Tabletop-testing
• Evaluation of the core platform
• approx. 40 volunteers from the Red

Cross and Rotterdam Safety Region

• Fictive disaster recovery scenario

final evaluation

• Summer 2015, Maastricht/Aachen NL
• Cross-border collaboration
• Evaluation of the final platform
• Field testing with participation of

local parties, 100+ participants

• Realistic disaster recovery scenario

final evaluation

• Summer 2015, Maastricht/Aachen NL
• Cross-border collaboration
• Evaluation of the final platform
• Field testing with participation of

local parties, 100+ participants

• Realistic disaster recovery scenario

The way forward

• Further concept development

– What are valuable assets in such a platform? – Understand adoption criteria – why would people use it?

• Further platform development

– Which features are relevant for you as a user? – What is a simple yet powerful workflow? – How to stimulate group activities? Only by ‘liking’? – How to incorporate training/instructions? – How much of existing social media should be incorporated? – What indicators would you need on a dashboard as professional?

• Generate community interest

– Align project with existing initiatives and domain demands – Promote the integrated COBACORE approach – Build specific national versions? If yes, how?

Framing the project outcome

COBACORE as a global platform COBACORE as a national or regional platform COBACORE as a thematic-oriented platform COBACORE as a all-purpose, all-hazard platform COBACORE as a government-led service COBACORE as a community-managed platform? COBACORE as an inspiration for other platforms COBACORE as a first step towards an

• perational tool

COBACORE as a community-wide platform COBACORE as a professionals-only platform

Public participation The role of the volunteer The role of social media in disaster recovery Coupling community- and professional information channels

Coordination and collaboration Trust in the self Trust in the self Trust in the self Trust in the self-

• reliance of

reliance of reliance of reliance of disaster disaster disaster disaster-

• stricken communities

stricken communities stricken communities stricken communities

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