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Project
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Ensure climate
resilience through instrumental policies and
community initiatives. |
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Objective: |
Ensure climate
resilience through instrumental policies and
community initiatives |
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Project
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Policy
activities will have a wider influence
across the country and ground level
activities targets communities in the
disaster-prone GN divisions of the Kalutara
District |
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Duration: |
2014 (Ongoing) |
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Donor/
Funder: |
Development Fund, Norway |
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Project
Activities: |
1. Community
based Disaster Management activities |
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2. Climate
action plans at village level |
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3. Training
and capacity building workshops |
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4. Community
awareness raising programs |
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Environmental awareness creation programs
for school students |
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Project
Activities
and Achievements |
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Activity |
Achievements |
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Community based Disaster
Management activities |
GMSL implemented Community based
Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM)
Programs in 2 villages, namely
Diggoda and Kovilagoda of the
Palindanuwara DS division in
2013. For the preparation of the
CBDRM plans GMSL conducted a
series of workshops with the
participation of diverse aged
communities with diverse
economic and social backgrounds.
Notably, majority of the
participants were women and they
took the leading role in
preparing the plan. GMSL went on
to develop the plan step by step
as it requires patience to
sensitize communities in the
technical aspects of disaster
management. After preparing the
plans, GMSL formed two societies
for the implementation and
monitoring of the disaster
management activities at local
level. In addition, GMSL
provided much needed equipment
to the community such as canoes,
steel tents, cooking equipment,
and life jackets. The program
was quite successful and the
communities effectively managed
flood impact during the flood
happened in June 2014 with the
knowledge, skills and resources
given to them by GMSL.
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CBDRM Meetings |
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In preparing CBDRM
plans predominant
contributors were
women |
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And they weren’t
afraid of raising
concerns |
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A pandal created by
the community to
welcome everybody
for the event
organized to
distribute equipment
– Kowilagoda of
Kalutara District |
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Safety of the
community is of
supreme importance –
they were provided
life saving jackets
to be worn when
transporting on
canoes |
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Handing over canoes
for the villagers of
Kowilagoda - canoes
are the only means
of transportation
during floods |
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When homes are
inundated they
evacuated to a
shelter and GMSL
provided cooking
equipments to
provide foods for
people in shelters (Hadigalla
of Kalutara
District) |
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Providing canoes to
the villagers in
Hadigalla of
Kalutara District as
per the Disaster
Mitigation Plan
created by the
community for the
community |
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Villagers of
Kowilagoda posing a
photograph with
canoes |
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Environmental awareness creation
programs for school students |
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Training and capacity building
workshops |
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