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Participatory Public Policies Placing Grassroots Women’s Groups at the
Center of Community Resilience
Sandy Schilen, Global Facilitator GROOTS International
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- Helen Clark’s Cambridge Lecture
“Achieving resilience is a transformative process which builds on the innate strength of individuals, their communities, and institutions to prevent, mitigate the impacts of, and learn from the experience of shocks of any type, internal or external; natural or man-made; economic, health-related, political, or social.”
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“Resilience-based sustainable development …invokes the agency of people, institutions, and systems. It calls for developing the agency or capacity of the poor to overcome their conditions; draws on local knowledge and expertise, and the resilience of those who are vulnerable ….(and) is about building the capacities of societies to prevent, resolve, learn, and grow...”
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“Resilience-focused approaches offer opportunities to build development from the bottom up, from a concern and a deep respect for the people who are the most resilient in the face of crisis – those who are facing and confronting it.”
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Community Resilience=Facilitating Grassroots Women’s Empowerment Approach
Securing Access to & Control over Resources
Securing Access to & Control over Resources
Supporting Women’s Effective Community Resilience Practice &Transfer
Supporting Women’s Effective Community Resilience Practice &Transfer
Build Relationship
with Local Authorities, Government
Officials
Constituency Building & Leadership
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Elements of Resilience Building in Our Network include:
•Disaster preparedness and emergency response
•Protecting natural resources and development gains
•Ensuring that development does not increase vulnerabilities
•Building capacities to participate in long term risk reduction – sustainable agriculture
•Reviving and transmitting indigenous knowledge and practices to preserve natural resources
•Strengthening organizations and networks
•Negotiating with local authorities and government for coordinated response and institutional accountability
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Entry Points for Scaling Up Grassroots Women’s Resilience Efforts
• Hazard, Risk Mapping• Land use mapping • Indigenous early
warning systems • Contingency Planning &
Disaster Response Committees
• Community kitchens • Sustainable agriculture • Rain water harvesting • Soil conservation• Crop rotation • Food security
• Securing land and housing tenure
• Disaster-resistant construction – houses, sanitation, drainage, river embankments.
• Improve infrastructure • Access to basic services –
health, sanitation • Disaster safe construction –
houses, embankments• Community banks, savings and
credit • Transmitting indigenous
knowledge and practices • Strengthening organizations and
networks • Negotiating with institutions
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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Resourcing Community DevelopmentInsuring Funds & Opportunities Reach Women in Poor Communities
• Climate & Disaster Risk Mapping • Community Resilience Fund• Scaled Up Demonstration Funds
Climate & Disaster Risk Mapping
Advancing Grassroots Women’s Leadership through
Public Roles
Reducing Vulnerabilities Building Action and Learning Networks
Initiating Partnerships and Linkages
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The Community Resilience Fund:
Sanitation and Drainage
Reforestation
Water Recycling
Rain water harvesting
Mangrove replanting
Securing land for collective farming
Vulnerability Reduction
Initiatives from Risk Mapping
Roof retrofitting • Jamaica: Hurricane resistant roofs
and women led construction
• Indonesia: Construction of canals, drainage system and pipe reconstruction
• Jamaica: Toilet construction and health awareness campaign
Seed and tool banks for food security
• Uganda: Drought resistant crops • Nepal: Vegetable farming• Jamaica: Seed banks and
containers
• Nepal : To combat drought and water irrigation for crops
• Jamaica: Prevent environmental degradation and provide shoreline protection
Urban Rural
• Uganda: Securing land for collective farming
Local and National
Government Engagement
• Peru: Tara tree reforestation• Indonesia: Replanting trees based
on 2000 new trees
• Peru: Building a water tank for irrigation for farming and tree planting
Roof Retrofitting
Livelihood Diversification
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Grassroots Women’s
Organizations take actions to reduce risk and
vulnerabilities and engage local authorities
National Ministries and Governments
related to disaster and climate change
implement pro poor risk/vulnerability
reduction policy and programming
Local Authorities recognize and support
proactive women’s agendas to take short
and long term approaches to risk
reduction and resilience
Innovative partnerships reduce risks and vulnerabilities
and create a culture of resilience
Community Resilience Fund: A Vision of Change
Networking (Grassroots Organizations, Local Authorities, and National Ministries) create a critical mass of leaders fostering community focused resilience building
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Community Practitioners PlatformOfficially Recognized by UNISDR
Enable grassroots communities to strategically influence decision makers by:
• Building coalitions through which they can demonstrate, teach and transfer their practices
• Building a network of institutional champions and allies committed to promoting community leadership In order to strategically influence policies and programs so that they advance pro-poor, resilient development.
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