Wisdom of Life

CHILD LED DRR

Programmes

About

TIMELINE: Duration: 1 years; Date of Inception:1st September 2018; Date of End: 31st August 2019.

The main objective of the programme or the goal is to Vulnerable children and communities will have greater resilience towards the negative impact of natural disasters in Sundarban. Sundarbans region in South Bengal, is highly vulnerable to floods, embankment erosion and cyclones due to its unique geo-climatic situation and other human-related events. The situation has continued to threaten the safety of children of Sundarbans in a big way, as witnessed after the overwhelming Aila cyclone in 2009.

Little does the standard humanitarian and disaster risk reduction (DRR) process recognize the need to have children participate in matters of their protection and resilience building. The program places children in the center of local planning to secure measures for their overall physical safety and resilience by enabling children’s participation at all levels.It has raised the capacity of the community and local administration (PRI) towards Child centered disaster risk reduction and also strengthening community resilience to food insecurity and livelihood as well as health protection.

IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS:

  • 1. PalliUnnayan Samiti Baruipur

Geographical area:

District Block Gram Panchayat Villages
South 24 Pgns Gosaba Pathankali and Bipradaspur 16

Demographic Reach:
Total Target beneficiaries: 3877 (as per the monthly programme updates)

Sl. No Content Total
1 Total Number of villages 16
2 Total Number of Gram Panchayat 2
3 Total Number of Blocks 1
4 Total Number of Districts 1
5 Total covered HH’S 3877
6 Total covered Population 23918
7 Male & Female (population) 12529 & 11389

Highlights of the Program:

  • 1. The awareness among children, community and local bodies on Child related DRR and Protection issues has increased.
  • 2. Children improved their wash and personal hygiene practice.
  • 3. Children adopted the safety mechanism on disaster.
  • 4. Based on prioritized actions children ahs done need based planning on DRR.
  • 5. Convergence between key stakeholders and institutions towards understanding the roles and responsibilities of duty bearers in DRR focusing children.
  • 6. Various sensitization workshop/ activities organized by CBO at community level on capacity building and preparedness.
  • 7. By the programme children participated in Gram sabha’s and submitted their DRR plan.
  • 8. MHM (Menstruation Hygiene Management) training was done in collaboration with ICDS, Asha workers.

Impact

  • 1. After MHM training 205 adolescence girls changed their food habit for their health improvement.
  • 2. 35 adolescent girls of are practicing hygiene and using sanitary napkin during menstruation.
  • 3. Three students have collected the plants from different village and replant at their house premises and regularly they are nurturing.
  • 4. 5 Students are regularly collecting the plastic from their house, roadside to keep the area clean.
  • 5. 10 Children regularly collecting the plastic from the different part of the village and also creating awareness among the community to ‘say no to plastic’.
  • 6. Children of 37 families were well prepared in trams of Disaster preparedness.
  • 7. 154 children learnt practice water purification at home.
  • 8. 187 children learnt to prepare ORS.
  • 9. 78 children skilled to make vela (temporary boat) out of water bottle, drum, banana trunk and tube.
  • 10. 135 children skilled to make temporary stretcher locally available materials.
  • 11. 33 children teaching to other children making of temporary stretcher.
  • 12. 287 children learnt how to keep Family survival kit and 196 are practice.
  • 13. 17 Families cut off the vulnerable trees from their house building.
  • 14. 105 families identified high raised building as flood shelter.