Community Based Training and Awareness Programme for Natural Disaster Management - Flood and Cyclone

Place: Jagatsingpur and Kendrapara Districts of Orissa
Duration: January 27– February 10, 2002

The Workshop and Community Based Training (CBT) programme involves in the backdrop of vulnerability of communities socially as well as physically to natural disasters. The natural disasters made the communities vulnerable, both socially as well as physically. Natural disasters occur periodically with varying intensities rendering the communities totally unprepared to meet such contingencies. Associated with the natural disasters are poverty and disproportionate increase in the number of unemployed, semi employed and underemployed among the rural people vis-à-vis the existing productive resource base of the society. Employment is a critical economic & social issue for these people, more so in the context of a mono-rural economy predominantly based on agriculture, who for economic and social security migrate heavily to the urban, commercial and industrial centres. The cycle of natural disasters affected the very productive base of the communities in the targeted areas.

Beneficiaries

The main beneficiaries of the programme were communities on the seacoast and riverbanks, farmers, artisans, traders, small holders, herders, fishermen, landless men & women, and gatherers.

Objective

• Disaster preparedness of the communities through capability formation and capacity building of the human resource potential to develop the required knowledge, skills and awareness to meet various contingencies within a minimum possible response time (before, during and after natural disasters)
• Community awareness and preparedness about disaster warning system based on weather forecasting system of the Meteorological Deptt as well as of the traditional knowledge system

Methodology

• Building the human resource potential through knowledge, skills and awareness for disaster management
• Exposure and demonstration
• Actual hands-on training for disaster preparedness (before, during and after disaster) and mitigation through latest development in the weather forecasting system and the traditional knowledge system

  Project Summary