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Disaster Management
Community
Community Update
In this Issue
No.123: 03 Sept 2014
From the Resource Team| Community News |Member Postings
From the Resource Team
Dear Friends,
In the last week of August 2014, Mahananda river overflowed flooding the district of Purnia and floods
affected 17 districts in the State. Nalanda, Sheikhpura and Darbhanga were the worst affected. As many as
36 people are thought to have been killed in the floods or flood related incidents. According to the latest
figures from Bihar’s Disaster Management Department, around 1.8 million people have been affected by
flooding that first began in the state in mid-August after heavy rain in river catchment areas in Nepal.
According to Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), 100,000 people are currently living in
relief camps after being displaced by flooding in the State, which began in mid-August 2014. Water levels of
the Brahmaputra, Jiadhal, Beki and other rivers are still dangerously high in many districts of the state
Incessant and unprecedented heavy rainfall in the last week of August has left a trail of death and
destruction in the Hyderabad-Karnataka and Bombay-Karnataka regions of Karnataka State. Standing crops
on thousands of acres of land in North Karnataka districts suffered damages owing to flood waters from
breached tanks and bridge-cum-barrages entering farm fields.
The floods across the country has displaced lakhs of people, affecting social life and destroyed standing crops
leading to loss of income and livelihood and increasing debts. The question how these affected people will
recover; how quickly and what are the mechanisms available for recovery. During the interim period the
affected communities reside in relief camps and how well these relief camps are managed. Does the relief
camps reduce fear, trauma and enable them to recover faster?
The occurrence of floods almost every year in Assam, Bihar and Odisha States calls for serious dialogue
among Administrators, Scientific Community and affected communities to find lasting solutions.
With warm regards,
G. Padmanabhan and Mahendra R,
Resource Team, Disaster Management Community
Members Postings
Workshops and Conferences
Recently Held
From Mahendra.Rajaram UNDP, New Delhi
Uttarakhand Recovery Action: Sharing of Experience
National Workshop on the above theme was organised at Hotel Shangri-La
on 27 August 2014, New Delhi. The workshop held 4 key sessions:
Overview - Immediate Response action and early recovery planning;
Recovery Action – Study and Findings; Inter-agency Planning and
Coordination: Sharing of experiences and lessons learned; Key
Recommendations for improved Humanitarian Action. The workshop was
attended by Officials from Government of India, Government of
Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu; UN Disaster Management Team, International
NGOs, NGOs, Academician’s and Community members. The detailed report
will be shared soon.
Upcoming
From Mahendra. Rajaram, UNDP
Climate Change and the Post-2015 Development Framework:
Developing Country Perspectives
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Climate and
Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) will host a two-day event on
environmental sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
in London, UK, on 10 and 11 September 2014 at London, England. The
event will share and discuss perspectives from the South on how climate
change should be reflected in the SDGs and closer look at the food-waterenergy nexus and how countries on three continents are managing the
challenge of reducing poverty while developing sustainably. The event will
be
broadcast
via
webcast
and
can
be
viewed
at
http://www.odi.org/events/4001-climate-change-post-2015-deve...
Training Opportunities
From Vikas Kohli Vivo Health Care, New Delhi
Emergency Responder Program
The Vivo Health Care will be conducting an Emergency Responder Program
at Indian Mountaineering Foundation in the 3rd week of September. This
program will benefit those who are working in Disaster Management. For
further queries please visit http://www.vivohealthcare.com/ or can call Mr.
Vikas Kohli at 91- 9810239656
Call for Papers
From Mahendra.R, UNDP, New Delhi
A K Dasgupta Center for Planning and Development (A Centre
sponsored by the Planning Commission, government of India) is conducting
Community News
Open Queries
Analysis
of
Livelihood
Programs during Recovery
Phase
in
Agricultural
Sector
in
Assam”
Examples; Advice. Reply by
4 September 2014. View
here for query details and to
respond.
From Our Partners
National
Institute
for
Disaster
Management,
New Delhi is conducting
number of training programs,
events and online courses. For
more details please visit
http://nidm.gov.in/default.asp
UN News
Calling small island developing
nations a magnifying glass for
vulnerabilities
around
the
world,
United
Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
on
Monday
urged
the
international community to
support
sustainable
development
in
these
countries
through
multistakeholder partnerships. For
more details from across the
world, please visit
http://www.un.org/news/
New Opportunities –The
Adaptation Fund (AF)
The AF was established to
finance concrete adaptation
projects and programmes in
developing countries that are
parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
The AF will co-host its Climate
Finance Readiness Seminar #3
with UNEP on Sept. 10-12,
2014 in Bangkok, Thailand.
This seminar series, part of
its Readiness Programme for
Climate Finance, is designed to
strengthen the effective and
fully-operational
climate
finance direct access model
the Fund has pioneered. For
more
details
visit
National Seminar on 28-29 November 2014, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan,
West Bengal. More details are available on www.visva-bharati.ac.in and
also at http://www.visvabharati.ac.in/files/975120714_AKDCPD-ECO-NS2829NOV2014.pdf
Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh is
holding 18th Annual Conference of “The Indian Political Economy
Association”. The venue for the conference is Giri Institute of Development
Studies (GIDS), Lucknow and the date of conference is November 15-16,
2014. For further details contact Prof. Surinder Kumar, Director, Giri
Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Sector: ‘O’, Aliganj, Lucknow, UP.
Tel
No:
0522-2321860
(O),
080005492943
(M).
Email:
ksurin52@gmail.com or Prof. V.Upadhyah, Department of Humanities
and Social Sciences. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi, Tel
No: 011-26591375 (O), 09871433606(M). Email: ioea.india@yahoo.co.in
or vrajaindrau@gmail.com
Key topic for the Community Update Issue No: 123
From Mahendra, UNDP, New Delhi
https://www.adaptationfund.org/funded_projects
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Welcome to new Members
We
welcome
our
new
members for joining the DM
Community of Practice and
look forward for your active
participation and contribution
for knowledge enhancement.
Recommended Readings
From G. Padmanabhan, UNDP.
The best of RK Laxman, Penguin, Delhi, p67.
Growth of Cities and Towns is
increasing across the world
and particularly in India at a
faster pace and it is expected
to swell further and build more
pressure on limited resources.
The
Southasiadisasters.net
issue 114, July 2014 focuses
on the theme of urban risk and
resilience. The issue contains
articles detailing the efforts
made by various agencies and
organizations to reduce the
risks faced by urban centres.
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