Synthesis report of GNDR regional
consultations on strategy July 2015
[Draft 3: 1 September 2015. TDG]
Table of Contents
1.
2.
Purpose of this Report ....................................................................................................... 2
Overview of Findings ......................................................................................................... 2
Comments on GNDR Vision, purpose and objectives (Section 4) .................................................. 2
Regional Problem Statement (Section 5) ....................................................................................... 3
Organization, coordination, governance and strategy at regional/ national level (Section 7) ...... 3
Proposals for the global strategy of the network (Section 8)......................................................... 3
3. Analytical Method ............................................................................................................. 3
4. Comments and recommendations on the GNDR Vision, Purpose and Objectives contained in
the current strategy and action plan for consideration by the GNDR Board ................................ 4
5. A regional problem statement concerning DRR and resilience. ........................................... 4
External Context ............................................................................................................................. 5
Internal context .............................................................................................................................. 6
6. Successes .......................................................................................................................... 6
7. Comments and recommendations on organization, coordination, governance and strategy
at regional and national level ................................................................................................... 7
8. Proposals for the overall global strategy for GNDR identifying strategic priorities and actions
consistent with the vision, values and objectives of the network ............................................... 8
A proposed organizing structure .................................................................................................. 10
9. Concluding notes ............................................................................................................. 13
10. Annex 1: Comments on purpose and vision.................................................................... 14
11. Annex 2: Problem Statement themes............................................................................. 15
12. Annex 3: List of Regional Consultations.......................................................................... 17
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1. Purpose of this Report
As part of GNDR’s 2015 programme of strategy development consultations to establish a new
strategy 2016-2020 members were consulted through a series of seven regional consultations (a list
appears in Annex 3). The consultations were shaped to the needs of each region. For example in
Southern Africa it was decided to bring community representatives and other stakeholders as well as
GNDR members. The Asia Pacific consultation was designed with several steps to take account of the
large membership and geographic diversity, with a survey and three sub-regional telecons before the
main consultation. In other regions the format was of a single meeting of representative members.
Whilst the format varied, all consultations were requested to provide particular outcomes t support
the strategy development process, specified in the guidance to consultations:
1. Comments and recommendations on the GNDR Vision, Purpose and Objectives contained
in the current strategy and action plan for consideration by the GNDR Board
2. A regional problem statement concerning DRR and resilience. What are the particular
opportunities and challenges in the region from a civil society perspective? In particular
what are the dominant threats and underlying causes at regional and country level, who are
the main actors in the region?, what is the role of government? What are the particular
resource challenges? What are the particular challenges faced by Civil Society Organisations?
3. Comments and recommendations on organisation and coordination at regional and
national level in the region, identifying ways in which GNDR can complement and collaborate
with existing networks, platforms and organisations.
4. How can governance be developed in the region, taking account of existing structures and
strengthening communication between board members and membership, and clarifying the
role of Regional Development coordinators.?
4. Proposals for particular strategy elements and actions relevant to the region and the
above problem statement, consistent with the vision, values and objectives of the network
(taking account of any suggested modifications to these). It would be helpful to rank the
elements seen as important in order of priority. For specified actions provide indications of
costings.
5. Proposals for the overall global strategy for GNDR identifying strategic priorities and
actions consistent with the vision, values and objectives of the network (taking account of
any suggested modifications to these) What is the particular niche for the network?
6. Any other feedback which the consultations generate
This report has been produced by analyzing the outcome reports of all consultations according to the
method outlined briefly below, to inform the board and the strategy sub-committee in developing
the strategy, alongside other outputs.
2. Overview of Findings
Not all requested outcomes were addressed by the consultations. This report provides information
on those outcomes which were addressed”
Comments on GNDR Vision, purpose and objectives (Section 4)
The overall concern in refining the Vision and Purpose was that the statements should have a broad
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sustainable development / resiience perspective and should link all scales – local, national and global
– in action and learning
Regional Problem Statement (Section 5)
The external context still didn’t take account of the broaderresiience and sustainable development.
At national level implementation is often reactive with limited consideration of underlying causes
and the development pathways which create risk. Connection between actors at different scales is
poor.
The internal context of the network faces major challenges. Connectivity, cohesion, collaboration and
sharing of experience and knowledge are still limited and there is a need to strengthen the national
and regional scales of the network. Members are concerned to increase access to resources at local
level
A number of successes were also identified (section 6). Many of these related to strengthening
collaboration, action and learning between local, national, regional and global scales
Organization, coordination, governance and strategy at regional/ national level (Section 7)
There was broad concern to: Strengthen the national and regional levels of the network, Deepen
collaboration between network members and build relationships with other stakeholders.
Proposals for the global strategy of the network (Section 8)
A wide range of proposals for objectives and activities were offered and are documented in Section
8. This report presents the range of proposals for objectives and activities synthesized from
contributions from all regions. One particular means of organizing them into a structure of overall
objectives and sub-objectives Is offered.
3. Analytical Method
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Outcome reports were received from most regions. Exceptions were Southern Africa
where the RDC was on study leave so a report collated by secretariat members who
were present was used, and the West Asia and North Africa region, where a concise
summary of objectives recommendations was provided.
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The reports had line numbers added to them to enable referencing of all comments
and recommendations
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Comments and recommendations from each report were added to a database,
including the region and line number reference
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They were coded with reference to category, relevant objective if any, with a short
description
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This database was used as the basis of filtering and sorting material to synthesise
together the contributions of all the consultations and formed the basis of this report
4. Comments and recommendations on the GNDR Vision, Purpose and Objectives
contained in the current strategy and action plan for consideration by the GNDR
Board
A limited number of comments were made by a few regions on the GNDR and purpose statements
(see annex 1) which currently read as follows:
OUR PURPOSE: “Enable civil society to connect local to global and speak with a
collective voice that drives action which reduces risk and increases the resilience
of the most vulnerable.”
OUR VISION: “A world of resilient communities where vulnerable people are able
to prepare for, mitigate against, recover from and adapt to hazards and a
changing climate.”
The overall concern was that the statements should have a broad sustainable development /
resiience perspective and should link all scales – local, national and global – in action and learning
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There should be emphasis on the full range of threats, wider than natural hazards, including
social factors and referring to root causes, including the idea of sustainable development
The national scale as well as local and global should be included
Linking local to (national to) global should include the idea of information sharing
The mechanism of change is through changed behaviour, particularly in community and
government behaviour
Possible wording based on the above: ‘To build the ability of civil society to advance
resilience-based development by linking learning and action at all scales’
5. A regional problem statement concerning DRR and resilience.
The comments from all regions who considered a problem statement were examined to identify
emerging themes.
Participants felt that the external context was still one where the SFDRR didn’t take account of the
broader resiience and sustainable development perspective which better reflects local realities and
there was limited evidence that it would strengthen effective implementation. Risk governance
generally faces the same challenges and at national level is often reactive with limited consideration
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of underlying causes and the development pathways which create risk. Connection between actors
at different scales is poor.
They felt that the internal context of the network faced major challenges. Connectivity, cohesion,
collaboration and sharing of experience and knowledge were still limited and there is a need to
strengthen the national and regional scales of the network. Members are concerned to increase
access to resources at local level:
The themes that emerged are summarized below, drawn from the table in annex 2.
External Context
Limitations of SFDRR
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Lack of coherence with other frameworks
Lack of recognition of new risk creation
Lack of recognition of impact of conflict
Lack of recognition of impact of inequality
Lack of mechanisms for strengthening local capacities
Lack of mechanisms to access local resources
Lack of relevance to local realities
Need to address the wide range of threats impacting the lives and livelihoods of communities
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‘Everyday disasters’,
New diseases,
Sea level rise and climate change impacts generally,
Social tensions,
Conflict,
Technological disasters,
Poverty
Need to increase cohesion between all developmental frameworks
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Need to engage with the full range of development actors
Ensure cohesive implementation
Challenge is that funding is often silo-ed.
Poor risk governance
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Policy is often reactive, post disaster,
Little account is taken of root causes
The impact of maldevelopment and overdevelopment.
Implementation is patchy and accountability limited
Difficulty of engaging with governments
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CSOS have limited engagement and collaboration with government
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In some cases political space for engagement is shrinking.
Links between local and national government are often weak
Internal context
Need to make the network more cohesive
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Weak coordination, communication and collaboration within the network, with a continuing
need to move from ‘hub and spoke’ to ‘cats cradle’ collaboration
Limited ownership in some cases, perceiving the network as an external entity
Weak collaboration and limited coalitions with other networks and actors
Need to strengthen the network at the national level before growing further globally
Need to strengthen regional engagement and advocacy
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Civil society is often uncritical and ‘co-opted’
Stronger advocacy for the critical role of CSOs in DRR is needed
GNDR needs stronger presence at regional level and at critical events (‘not just at UNISDR’)
Need to strengthen information and learning
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Sharing between members is weak
Need for strengthening flows of technical knowledge and innovation
Need for strengthening community knowledge, training and organization
Local resource mobilisation
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More emphasis on securing funding from private enterprise, governments etc
Funding needed for local initiatives
Community reflection and action requires resourcing
Funding at regional level needs to be more ‘durable’ (consistent)
6. Successes
Some participants recorded specific positive impacts of GNDR’s work. This was not requested but
particular achievements were identified by participants in the Asia Pacific and Southern Africa
workshops. Many of these related to strengthening collaboration, action and learning between local,
national, regional and global scales:
Asia Pacific
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Communicating everyday realities of people at risk to global level is the highest success
of GNDR
Promoted local level implementation of HFA, strengthening community resilience
Action research promoted bottom-up understanding and promoted risk reduction
Build partnerships between different actors, CSOS, government etc
Awareness and advocacy based on AFL and VFL. Some limited impact on SFDRR
Growth of membership and links to regional networks
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Southern Africa
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AFL in malawi brings evidence of everyday disasters to government attention
VFL improved working relationship with local government (Zimbabwe)
AFL provided rare opportunity to move away from short term project interventions
(Malawi)
Benefit of being part of global movement, increases insight regionally (South Africa)
GNDR increased awareness of HFA for govt 'taking HFA off the government shelf'
(Swaziland)
Exchange of knowledge between community, CSO and university (Zambia)
7. Comments and recommendations on organization, coordination, governance
and strategy at regional and national level
There was broad concern to:
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Strengthen the national and regional levels of the network
Deepen collaboration between network members
Build relationships with other stakeholders.
These points lead to particular recommendations as part of (4) Proposals for the overall global
strategy The detailed recommendations are set out below, identifying the contributing group:
Strengthen regional influence on global
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Strengthen CSO role in regional processes to address global
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Increase the profile of Central America and Caribbean in the
global scenes as a high vulnerability region
Central
America
Central
America
Strengthen national level of network
 Structures and support for national and regional networks
Southeast Asia
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Establish a national and regional structure for the network
West Africa
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Consider a revised role for NCOs as national focal points.
With an appropriate selection process
Establish NCO type organisation as national focal point
West Africa
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Southern Africa
Capitalise on rich local understanding and engagement by
supporting local level action
Strengthen regional level of network
 Participatory development of regional policy linked to new
strategy
NAWA
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appoint an operational coordinator for Central America and
Caribbean
Central
America
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Establish an action plan for Central America and Caribbean
Central
America
Central
America
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Develop regional communications and representation
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Structures and support for national and regional networks
Central
America
Southeast Asia
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Establish a national and regional structure for the network
West Africa
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Establish a regional advisory committee,
West Africa
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Consider legal registration as an entity in West Africa to
support mobilisation of funds
West Africa
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Separate southern and east africa and coordinate them
separately
Southern Africa
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Strengthen regional identity but without legal registration
NAWA
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Establish separate Central Asia regional advisory group
NAWA
Strengthen collaboration between members and with other stakeholders
Europe and
 Need to strengthen identification with the network and
USA
ownership of GNDR by members
Central
 Forge relationships with other strong agencies and
America
networks in the region
 Strengthen communication and dialogue through improved South America
communications and use of ICTs
South America
 Strengthen alliances, information and communication
between members at regional level
NAWA
 Build partnerships with UNISDR, UNHCR, ESCWA, UNEP,
UNDP, OCHA
NAWA
 Strengthen relationships with regional networks
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Demonstrate and promote the particular value of civil
society alongside government actors.
West Africa
8. Proposals for the overall global strategy for GNDR identifying strategic priorities
and actions consistent with the vision, values and objectives of the network
Participants at the regional consultations offered a wide range of proposals for objectives and actions
in the forthcoming strategy. In the analysis of the consultation reports these were grouped under a
number of emerging themes that were developed iteratively during the analysis reflecting the range
of suggestions. These are presented initially organized under the themes in alphabetical order,
followed by a suggested method of organizing them:
Capacity building
for CSOs
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Develop a civil society implementation guide for all frameworks
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Enhanced sharing
of learning
Fund raising
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Capacity development, institution strengthening, technical skills of
member orgs, ability to capture case studies
build skills of members, training, particularly monitoring
build capacity by connecting people and knowledge together
should not have a role in capacity building other than for monitoring
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collect and share best practice on resiience building
multi-stakeholder dialogue to discuss local level findings (frontline etc)
link local findings to UNISDR
identify specific needs for knowledge brokering
promote research on results from Frontline
strengthen collaboration with academia to broaden knowledge
higher quality research in academic journals, stronger links to academia
ensure that local knowledge is taken account of
sharing of experience and best practice needs to be strengthened
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provide funding for local research and local actions
map funding streams for DRR and provide recommendations for
improving them
reesources for implementation
community resilience funding facility and funding for specific community
projects
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Getting local
voices heard
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GNDR influence
on policy and
implementation
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VFL and Frontline type actions critical in closing post 2015
implementation gap
share local knowledge from communities with all networks
advocacy for and with actors from the Frontline
Maintain AFL / VFL at a lower frequency
Develop evidence based advocacy based on VFL / frontline / 365 disasters
Convene a wide range of actors for joint advocacy at critical junctures
Create awareness of DRR within other networks and agendas
Coordinate media advocacy concerning DRR
Use local evidence (frontline etc) to produce papers etc to challenge for
systemic change
Big challenge to GNDR to press for emphasis on action, implementation
and accountability
Effective advocacy for particularly vulnerable groups and for their active
role
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Link
developmental
frameworks
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Local action and
learning
Monitoring
Regional
institutional
capacities
Partnerships and
collaboration
Other
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make interconnections between DRR, development and climate change
explicit
link DRR, MDGs and CC working closely with partners from these thematic
areas
Strengthen local action and learning and the role of CSOs in supporting
this
50% of GNDR budget devoted to community action to promote resilience
build capacity of civil society to monitor Sendai framework
establish joint post-2015 bottom-up resilience monitoring framework
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Strengthen national and regional networks
National focal points and coordinating organisations required
establish national focal points
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link DRR networks, pooling knowledge
bring regional and national networks together
build trust between actors to improve implementation
build partnerships with other orgs and particularly with government
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emphasis on gender perspective and role of children and young people
ensure that members' voices are heard
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Our action and messages should start from community level. Make sure
we don't speak like others, always have community in mind
Ensure GNDR actions are people centred and seen to improve the
situation of at-risk communities
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Monitoring and evaluation team for all network activities, using
international experts
A proposed organizing structure
The main purpose of this report is to synthesise the reports of all regional workshops. In the case of
the recommendations for the global strategy, which are extensive, a method of structuring these
recommendations into overarching objectives reflecting the nature and experience of the network is
offered. There are many ways the cake can be sliced and this is just one! It is based on the following
observations.
1. Members expressed a concern to recognize the different scales the network operates at (see
section 1 above).
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2. Connectivity between actors and scales was seen as an overall concern in the problem
statements offered by the consultations. (see section 2 above)
3. There was a concern in the regional recommendations to strengthen the national and
regional scale of the network and the connectivity between members and with other actors
(see section 3 above)
4. Whilst the role of GNDR in capacity building is contested – most groups supported it but the
Asia Pacific group questioned it strongly – it emphasizes the central role and responsibility of
civil society organisations in terms of the network’s goals. Indeed as a network of civil society
organisations these are its basis. Therefore Civil Society Organisations can be taken as the
pivot of the strategy and its objectives
5. Many of the specific objectives and activities are concerned with different scales, ranging
from local to national, regional and global. This can be seen as reflecting the principle that
resilience, as a systems property, must be addressed at all scales to be achieved.
6. At every scale flows of knowledge, action and influence are characteristic of the network’s
activity. This idea was expressed in an early presentation by Marcus Oxley, more recently by
the evaluation specialist examining our work at the Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
and in the characterization of civil society roles in GNDR’s 2015 ‘Civil Society Implementation
Guide’, which particularly highlights CSO roles as ‘knowledge broker’, ‘connector’, ‘monitor’
and ‘advocate’. The key role of action and learning is also at the heart of GNDR’s Action at
the Frontline and Frontline programmes
These points are applied as the basis for organizing the recommendations of the consultations on the
basis of action at different interlinked scales, based on flows of knowledge, action and influence:
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Scale
Local
Objectives
Learn from local
communities through
shared action
Sub-objectives
Specific Proposals
local action and
learning
Strengthen local action and learning and the role of CSOs in supporting
this
50% of GNDR budget devoted to community action to promote resilience
emphasis on gender perspective and role of children and young people
VFL and Frontline type actions critical in closing post 2015 implementation
gap
share local knowledge from communities with all networks
advocacy for and with actors from the Frontline
Maintain AFL / VFl at a lower frequency
Our action and messages should start from community level. Make
sure we don't' speak like others, always have community in mind
provide funding for local research and local actions
map funding streams for DRR and provide recommendations for improving
them
resources for implementation
community resilience funding facility and funding for specific community
projects
Develop a civil society implementation guide for all frameworks
Capacity development, institution strengthening, technical skills of member
orgs, ability to capture case studies
build skills of members, training, particularly monitoring
build capacity by connecting people and knowledge together
should not have a role in capacity building other than for monitoring
strengthen collaboration with academia to broaden knowledge
collect and share best practice on resiience building
multi-stakeholder dialogue to discuss local level findings (frontline etc)
identify specific needs for knowledge brokering
promote research on results from Frontline
higher quality research in academic journals, stronger links to academia
sharing of experience and best practice needs to be strengthened
getting local voices
heard
local level resources
Civil
Society
Build the capacity of
civil society to support
knowledge and action
from local to national
to global
Capacity building for
CSOs
Enhanced sharing of
learning
National Strengthen the ability
of CSOs to inform and
and
regional influence national
Strengthen
collaboration
implementation
Regional institutional
capacities
Global fundraising
Global
Bring local voices to
global attention
influence policy and
implementation
Link developmental
frameworks
Monitor
developmental
frameworks
Network
accountability
ensure that local knowledge is taken account of
link local findings to UNISDR
link DRR networks, pooling knowledge
bring regional and national networks together
build trust between actors to improve implementation
build partnerships with other orgs and particularly with government
Strengthen national and regional networks
National focal points and coordinating organisations required
establish national focal points
map funding streams for DRR and provide recommendations for improving
them
Effective advocacy for particularly vulnerable groups and for their active
role
make interconnections between DRR, development and climate change
explicit
link DRR, MDGs and CC working closely with partners from these thematic
areas
build capacity of civil society to monitor Sendai framework
establish joint post-2015 bottom-up resilience monitoring framework
Monitoring and evaluation team for all network activities, using international
experts
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9. Concluding notes
This synthesis report is offered to provide an overall picture of the views of regionally representative
network membership. An overview of the detailed findings has been offered in section 2 above. The picture
which emerges is one which whilst similar in many respects to that from the previous strategy shows
several marked changes:
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There is a strong emphasis on the need for development of regional and national governance and
action
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There is a general emphasis on moving from a specific DRR to a broader resilience focus
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There is an accompanying emphasis on the need to establish effective monitoring of the relevant
developmental frameworks
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Accompanying this is a concern that this action is based on hearing local voices and acting at all
scales, local and national as well as global
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10. Annex 1: Comments on purpose and vision
workshop
line no
description
121
Should emphasise the full range of threats, could be interpreted as just natural
hazards
Asia
124
Emphasise link to development agenda and sustainability not just 'resiience'
Asia
126
Emphasise root causes
Asia
128
Emphasise sustainability, not just 'resistance'.
Asia
130
Incliude reference to social factors such as racism, gender bias, discrimination
Changes in community behaviour and changes in government behaviour
(desired outcome of network actions)
should there be more emphasis on information sharing. Does this come into
connecting local to global?
Asia
193
Southern Africa
217
Southern Africa
Southern Africa
221
local to global misses out national and this is important
Southern Africa
224
why just climate change and other hazards, doesn't that exacerbate the issue?
Southern Africa
226
what if GNDR targets for next 5 years don't harmonise with SFDRR?
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11. Annex 2: Problem Statement themes
workshop
line no
description
103
problem statement
coding
better access to
information and learning
better access to
information and learning
better access to
information and learning
difficulty of engaging
with govt
difficulty of engaging
with govt
difficulty of engaging
with govt
difficulty of engaging
with govt
difficulty of engaging
with govt
diverse threats
106
diverse threats
134
diverse threats
Central
America
Central
America
Asia
118
Central
America
Central
America
Asia
115
Asia
196
Southern
Africa
Central
America
Central
America
Central
America
Asia
121
104
261
110
21
lack of technical knowledge and innovation
community knowledge, training and organisation lacking
weak sharing of knowledge between members
lack of interest from state actors - lack of planning, policy,
coordination and resources
poor links between national systems, ministries and
municipal government
limited partnership between CSOS, government and
private sector ('still a dream')
Political space and scope for action for CSOS shrinking
particularly in South Asia
How can we present frontline results so governemnts
don't just feel criticised but take them on board?
major concern is everyday disasters
187
diverse threats
new threats including new malaria type disease
chicunguya
Sea level rise reduces productive land in Dominican
Republic
Social tension including inequality, conflict and oppression
Asia
192
diverse threats
Threat of technological disasters is increasing
Asia
193
diverse threats
Asia
203
diverse threats
Asia
107
Asia
115
Asia
200
Europe
254
limited regional
advocacy
limited regional
advocacy
limited regional
advocacy
link frameworks
Climate change leading to sea level rise, erosion and
disasters threaten sustainability particularly in pacific
region
Severe poverty blocks peoples' participation in DRR
particularly in Southeast Asia
limited advocacy for the role of civil society in DRR
Europe
296
link frameworks
Central
America
Southern
Africa
Southern
Africa
Central
America
Central
America
Asia
250
link frameworks
45
local knowledge
40
local relevance
244
local resources
246
local resources
117
local resources
limited presence at critical events such as major disasters
('except at UNISDR meetings')
Civil society often uncritical and complicit ('co-opted
rather than critical')
Need to relate all frameworks and ensure linkages in
implementation
GNDR needs to link strongly to other development actors though difficult as funding siloed
failure to strengthen linkages between DRR, CC and sust
development
Important to get resources to local level
Frontline should have strong local relevance rather than
just being focused on global
failure to strengthen reflection and action in communities
due to lack of resources
failure to secure funds from private enterprise,
governments and others
no mobiiisation of resources to support local initiatives.
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Central
America
South America
391
Asia
102
Asia
105
Asia
106
Asia
113
Asia
209
West Africa
315
Southern
Africa
Southern
Africa
Southern
Africa
Southern
Africa
Central
America
Central
America
Asia
weak links with other networks
137
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
need to make network
more cohesive
poor risk governance
267
poor risk governance
National development pathways aren't consistent with
peoples' rights
very limited impact in challenging root causes
165
31
35
45
55
lack of unity and coordination between members in
different countries
weak coordination of membership
limited presence of regional secretariat
limited focus on national and regional level collaborations
(main focus of GNDR global)
limited ability to build coalitions, (too focused on
communications, ie 'reality check')
Isolation limits coordination in Pacific region
Perception by some West Africa members that GNDR is an
external international organisation
How can we strenthen interconnectivity between
members from 'hub and spoke?['
More work needed to strengthen local and national
network levels before building further globally
Important to undertand how to work constructively with
regional networks 'not stepping on each others's toes'
difficult to engage with East African civil society.
Reactive post-disaster approach in Caribbean
101
poor risk governance
Asia
185
poor risk governance
Asia
188
poor risk governance
Europe
100
SFDRR
Europe
105
SFDRR
Poor governance including lack of acountabillity,
implementation and rule of law
Development pathways and overdevelopment (neoliberal) increase vulnerability
SFDRR lack of guidance to governments to address
inequality of risk
SFDRR lack of detail on strengthening local capacities
Europe
109
SFDRR
SFDRR lack of recognition of impact of conflict
Europe
114
SFDRR
SFDRR lack of focus on addressing risk creation
Asia
165
SFDRR
SFDRR lack of relevance to local realities
Asia
166
SFDRR
SFDRR lack of coherence with other frameworks
West Africa
281
SFDRR
SFDRR lack of mechanism for providing resources
West Africa
285
SFDRR
SFDRR poor link between policy and implementation
West Africa
286
SFDRR
SFDRR lack of relevance to local realities
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12. Annex 3: List of Regional Consultations
Region
West Africa
Country
Senegal
Date
July 14-15
South Africa
Host
Shalom
International
ACDS
Southern Africa
North Africa &
West/Central Asia
South Asia
Egypt
RAED
July 27-July 28
Bangkok
CWS
July 28-July 29
South-East Asia &
Pacific
Central America &
the Caribbean
South America
Europe and North
America
Bangkok
CWS
July 28-July 29
Honduras
FUNSALPRODES
July 1-2
Uruguay
France
Amigos del Viento
GNDR
July 16-17
July 1-2
July 28-July 29
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