Surviving with Recurring Floods

Project Title

Surviving with recurring flood: Awareness, preparedness and empowerment of the poor

Objectives

The project also aims at making capacitated civil society that will strengthen PRIs, women’s participation, increase information about entitlement and prepare the community for asking compensation against the losses caused by flood control measures constructed in the name of flood control but causing ferocious flood.

Activities

• Thematic orientation
• Survey, data collection and analysis
• Community capacity development by formation of CBOs and strengthening of CBOs
• Interaction with stakeholders of different level
• Workers staff potential development
• Establishment of information cum resource centre (IRC)
• Establishment of panchayat resource centre
• SHG formation/strengthening
• Policy advocacy activities through multi stakeholders dialogue, meetings, dharnas, workshop, legal proceedings, etc.
• Staff, worker potential development
• Community capacity development activities
• Construction of temporary shelters
• Establishment of panchayat resource centre, block resource centre and district resource centre
• Impact assessment conference

Expected Outcomes

• Damages of life and property will be reduced
• Each projected village will have a capacitated CBO and SHG with line of trained volunteers for rescue and relief
• CBOs and SHGs will have live linkages with different stakeholders
• Information and resource centre with relevant information and small equipments for mitigation of problems caused by flood
• Introduction of flood friendly cropping /housing pattern and adoption of flood friendly community technology
• Strengthen local flood coping mechanism and revival of traditional flood coping mechanism/traditional healing system
• Reduction in water born diseases

Donor

Department for International Development (DFID), UK Government, through Poorest Area Civil Society (PACS) Programme