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Session Title: A Novel Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation of Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction Programs: A Collaboration Between the American Red Cross and Johns Hopkins University
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Panel Session 568 to be held in Capistrano B on Friday, Nov 4, 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
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Sponsored by the Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation
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| Dale Hill, American Red Cross, hilldal@usa.redcross.org
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| Abstract:
The American Red Cross' Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) programs aim to reduce the number of deaths, injuries, and socio-economic impact from disasters by building safer, more resilient communities. These programs help build the skills of communities to identify risk and take action to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate potential disasters.
The American Red Cross and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have collaborated to develop a new evaluation approach for CBDRR programs. The approach is designed to measure the five domains of resilience that correspond to the Hyogo Framework: Governance, Rick Knowledge, Public Awareness, Risk Reduction and Preparedness. By measuring resilience, the evaluation approach aims to assess changes in risk mitigation, preparedness, and response capacity as a result of Red Cross activities.
This session will present the components of the evaluation approach and then explore the challenges and rewards of its application in Haiti and Asia.
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Bridging Concepts and Realities on the Ground: Measuring Progress on Disaster Risk Reduction for Both Technical and Community Audiences
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| Shannon Doocy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg University, sdoocy@jhsph.edu
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Dr. Shannon Doocy, Associate Professor at the John Hopkins Center for Refugee and Disaster Response (Bloomberg School of Public Health) brought both practical field experience and academic discipline to this new approach to evaluating community based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) programs. She led the development of the conceptual basis of the approach; the translation of the Hyogo Framework resiliency domains into measurable indicators; and the piloting of the approach in Central America.
Dr. Doocy will give an overview of the approach, covering its conceptual underpinnings, its application to CBDRR activities and outcomes, the tools and data collection activities, and the challenges of measuring resiliency and scoring communities on a resiliency scale.
After the presentations which follow on the American Red Cross' expanded application of the approach in other countries, she may also address lessons learned from its application and the next steps in further developing the approach for wider application.
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The Challenges of Applying This Novel Evaluation Approach to Programs in a Camp-based, Post-disaster Setting in Haiti
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| Gregg Friedman, American Red Cross, friedmang@usa.redcross.org
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The American Red Cross implements a Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) program in nearly 100 camps for persons displaced by the January 2010 earthquake. Evaluation activities using the new approach were recently launched for this CBDRR program, a first for the American Red Cross in an urban, post-disaster, displaced-person camp setting. Gregg Friedman, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor for the American Red Cross, has been working with the Haiti program officers on their baseline survey and evaluation plans in many sectors, and has experienced firsthand the challenges of surveying the affected populations in the overcrowded camps. He is leading the effort to apply this CBDRR framework in Haiti and will present lessons learned thus far.
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Across the Miles and Across the Sectors: Lessons Learned From Applications in Asia for Other Countries and Sectors
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| Dale Hill, American Red Cross, hilldal@usa.redcross.org
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Early after her arrival as Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor at the Red Cross, Dale Hill participated in the review of proposals that culminated in this novel approach to evaluating disaster risk reduction projects. In this panel, she will present the plans and lessons learned thus far in expanding its application to selected Asian projects, which will cover one or more of the following: a) a recently launched project in Viet Nam for first responder training, early warning systems, emergency response posts, and community contingency funds; and b) in Indonesia, projects for branches of the National Red Crescent Society in hazard prone areas, to fill gaps identified in needs assessments conducted after the earthquake in West Sumatra, and the tsunami in Aceh. Ms. Hill will also reflect on some of the lessons from application of this framework that may apply to assessments, project design, and evaluation plans in other sectors.
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