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Reason for the Partnership Baseline Conditions Common Issues in Recovery

REDUCING RISK AND VULNERABILITY-AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMANITARIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR GREEN RECOVERY Society for International Development 16 September 2009 ROBERT LAPRADE, AMERICAN RED CROSS ANITA VAN BREDA, WORLD WILDLIFE FUND. Reason for the Partnership Baseline Conditions

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Reason for the Partnership Baseline Conditions Common Issues in Recovery

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  1. REDUCING RISK AND VULNERABILITY-AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMANITARIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR GREEN RECOVERYSociety for International Development 16 September 2009 ROBERT LAPRADE, AMERICAN RED CROSSANITA VAN BREDA, WORLD WILDLIFE FUND

  2. Reason for the Partnership • Baseline Conditions • Common Issues in Recovery • Partnership Areas of Focus • Challenges • Stories from the Field • The Future

  3. Deforestation Over fishing Poor aquaculture development Poor tourism development Poverty Conflict Unsustainable Baseline Conditions in Many Tsunami-prone Coastal Communities

  4. Reconstruction is an Opportunity: Goal is NOT to Return to Pre-tsunami Conditions

  5. COMMON ISSUES

  6. Spatial Planning

  7. Unsustainable Livelihoods

  8. Solid Waste Management

  9. Unsustainable Logging

  10. Soil Mining

  11. A Partnership for Green Recovery A more hopeful and healthy future

  12. Primary Areas of Focus Livelihoods Water & Sanitation Shelter Disaster Management

  13. PROJECT REVIEWS

  14. CO-LOCATION OF STAFF

  15. CHALLENGES

  16. Differing Views of Sustainability Sustainability: “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” --World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987 As used in humanitarian aid: Sustainability = Economic sustainability; OR Sustainability = Project lasts for a long-time after the agency has left the country

  17. Different World Views

  18. Global Challenges • Struggle to balance immediate needs and acting now with long term sustainability approach • Emergency life saving perception colors humanitarian actor long term view • Need for professional development and R&D practices • Minimal or absence of financial resource commitment • Global perception of environment as a luxury • Lack of policy enforcement by government and agencies

  19. STORIES FROM THE FIELD

  20. Krueng Sabee Watershed Forum in Indonesia

  21. Aquaculture and Fisheries Livelihoods in Indonesia

  22. Home Gardening and Composting Training in Sri Lanka

  23. Livelihoods in Pulo Aceh, Indonesia

  24. Shelter in the Maldives

  25. School Garbage Banks in Thailand

  26. Green Recovery and Reconstruction Training Toolkit The 10 modules for the GRRT include: • Opportunities after Disasters: Introduction to Green Recovery and Reconstruction • Activity Review and Environmental Impact Assessment • Monitoring and Evaluation for Environmental Indicators • Coordination and Legal Frameworks • Spatial Planning • Sustainable Construction • Building Materials and the Supply Chain • Sustainable Water and Sanitation • Sustainable Livelihoods • Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction

  27. The Sphere Project Revision – Environment, DRR and Climate Change

  28. The Future

  29. Summary • Environment degradation predisposes populations to disaster risk • Disaster recovery operations can impact the environment • Working together we advance both our missions • The environment needs to be mainstreamed into humanitarian response

  30. Thank you… 31

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