Learning from Relief and Response Operations - Comments

Lois Austin: Flood Response Measures

nospam@example.com (Lois Austin) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:32:21 -0700

Participatory approaches are an essential part of flood response measures. Participation needs to take place at at least two different societal levels: at the individual, household and community level (the micro level) and at national level (macro level).

Micro level participation would need to ensure the inclusion of the affected population; local authorities; NGOs, humanitarian relief/development agencies (including the UN and Red Cross/Crescent families); relevant ministries working at local level; and elected representatives.

Macro level participation would need to ensure the inclusion of the Government; multilateral institutions; NGOs, humanitarian relief/development agencies (including the UN and Red Cross/Crescent families); and international finance institutions.

SHM Fakhruddin: Specific lessons on floods?

nospam@example.com (SHM Fakhruddin) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:13:09 -0700

Coping Mechanism and Vulnerabilities: As people remain vulnerable to various kinds of critical factors, they build their own coping strategies and mechanisms to deal with those. Individual, group, or community who remain successful in devising coping strategies to respective vulnerabilities gradually build ‘interfaces of resilience’. Contrary, those who fail to build adequate coping strategies become transiently vulnerable to host of pressing factors.

SHM Fakhruddin: Specific lessons on floods?

nospam@example.com (SHM Fakhruddin) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:10:53 -0700

Awareness building: It is imperative that for implementing participatory approach in flood disaster management and to make it effective, awareness about any disaster event and the role of all concerned should be clearly understood. For this purpose the government, NGOs and others concerned should undertake concerted efforts.

Riccardo Polastro: Specific lessons on floods?

nospam@example.com (Riccardo Polastro) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:30:45 -0700

You could find some useful lessons learned on coordination for the study in the recent Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation of the Response to the February 2007 Floods and Cyclone in Mozambique, May 2007, by John Cosgrave, Célia Gonçalves, Daryl Martyris, Riccardo Polastro and Muchimba Sikumba-Dils

If considered of interest you should consult the following link http://ochaonline.un.org/ToolsServices/EvaluationandStudies/EvaluationandStudiesSection/ESSReports/tabid/1397/Default.aspx

S.H.M. Fakhruddin: Specific lessons on floods?

nospam@example.com (S.H.M. Fakhruddin) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:05:44 -0700

I am very interested on:

Flood zoning and risk mapping
Flood Proofing and Shelters
ICT based Flood Response system

Kasinath Jena: Specific lessons on floods?

nospam@example.com (Kasinath Jena) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:04:32 -0700

"Every lesson has a valued topic to learn"

Every year flood teaches a lesson to the society to create a new chapter.......

Kasinath Jena: Specific lessons on floods?

nospam@example.com (Kasinath Jena) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:52:05 -0700

My Key topic of interests are:

Blending traditional technology with modern and scientific ....

Resilience of community cooping mechanisms...

&

Governance of Good Practices.....