Towards….“Building Safer Communities in Bihar

with focus on Child Protection

and Disaster Risk Reduction”

April 2009 – March 2011

INVESTING IN THE FUTURE – FOR SEEMLESS BREAKTHROUGHS

Kosi Floods 2008 – a National Calamity

•The Change in course of the Kosi River damaged 3,000 sq km area•33,45 ,545 persons affected •Infrastructure in 993 villages under 412 Gram Panchayats damaged in 5 districts•3, 40 ,742 houses were destroyed or damaged •262 lives and 1232 livestock were lost

Drought

Cold Wave

76 % people and 73% land mass is leaving under

Recurring floods

High Wind

Earth quake

zone IV & V

Hot Wave

Multi-Hazard Vulnerability of Bihar

Strategic Positioning

Araria, Supaul, Katihar, Purnia – are traditionally prone to trafficking -

The raison-d-etre for Save the Children to be positioned in Araria to mitigate vulnerabilities to children by way of potential risks of trafficking and abuse

There has always been an existing collective forum

Save the Children Response to KOSI FLOODS

Child Protection through ‘SAMBAL’ - an Inter -Agency Collaborative Venture –

First of its kind

Save the Children Reach• 225 Villages • 56,250 HH• 393,750 population• 165,375 Children

Food Non Food ItemsTemporary SheltersHygiene KitsHousehold Utility Kits

Back to School kits to Schools and Children – with Local Campaigns

Child Centred DRR – as a niche strategy of Save the Children

India

2008 – 2011 – in Bihar Save the Children and 4 Partners energized a very enriching process of Child Centred Community Based DRR - 50 villages with IKEA support 100 VILAGES with a magnanimous support of ICICI Foundation and CSO Partners

Children have played a major role in hazard mappings, development of community and school safety planning and became leaders in Task Forces

How many of us work FOR children?

How many of us work FOR children?

How many of us work WITH children?

Key words

Emergency

Disaster

Vulnerability

Risk

Hunger

Fever

Cold

Cough

Fear

Key words

Education

Protection

School

Medicine

Food

Water

Toilet

Play

Our key Champions: Children from 4 districts

• Shankar Kumar – class 7 – 12 – Yashodhara Centre, Bistodia, Araria District – Shiksha Mantri

• Ranjit Kumar – class 6 – 14 – Inderpur Mussahari, Araria District (Vikas Vihar) – President of Bal Panchayat

• Anamika Kumar – class 6 – 12 years – Purbi Thata, Mansi block, Khagaria District (NJ) – Paryavaran Mantri (Environment Minister)

Ashwani Kumar – class 8 - Purbi Thata, - Upadhyaksh of BP

Nisha Bharati – class 7 – 13 years – Kutha, Alauli Block, Khagaria district (NJ) – President of Bal Panchayat – 15 members

Ramashish Kumar – class 9 – Kutha – Shiksha Mantri – BP

Children – do they have something to tell us?• Lipi Mai – 8th standard girl – sanghatan karpo –

• Pavitra – disabled boy of 9th standard – how can you speak about

children without talking to us? – Bachche bhagidari hona chahiye

• Satya Prakash and Asha – said they talked to PRI and ensured that the road to school is safe on normal days and is not inundated during floods or cyclones..

• Narayan and Manoj – talked to elders and got a ramp done for village school

• Hara Priya – said she is good at teaching other children about ORS• Avijit and Saumya Ranjan – learned how to carry sick people or injured

people

Children and Rights

Immediate

RightsProgressive

Rights

Protection Participation

DevelopmentSurvival

Best Interest

Coverage areas with CSOS support in CCCBDRR

Partner District Block Villages No of HH

Jan Jagaran Sansthan (JJS) Madhepura 2 30 3467

Vikas Vihar Araria 1 20 3515

SAKHI Supaul 1 20 2805

Nav Jagriti Khagaria 3 30 3760

TOTAL 4 7 100 13547

An Inter-Agency Humanitarian Space was facilitated and supported through Sphere India as another hallmark of this unique cooperation with

ICICI Foundation and CSO Partners

What did we achieve?• Vulnerable children and communities in

flood-prone areas of Bihar, are better prepared to mitigate risks and cope with natural disasters

Key Result Areas : 1.Enhanced community-based child-centred

disaster-preparedness and child-protection mechanisms, especially pre, during and after emergencies

2.Creation and promotion of a model of good practice for child-safe flood-resistant shelter in vulnerable and high-risk communities

3.Strengthened livelihoods resilience of marginal farmers and farm labourers during and after emergencies

Trained & Equipped work force

CCCBDRR Program Rooted in Children Eco system

PVCA Tools helps children and their community to Identified their Risk , Vulnerability and Capacities

PVCA helps children to identified their Risk and Vulnerability and Capacity

• Unsafe condition leaving nearer to river , No shelter etc …

• Lack of local institution ,health care ,education

• Underlying Causes such as child Labour, Trafficking, Migration ,Child Marriage etc

28th Feb PATNA Yudhisthira Presentation of Risk and Vulnerability to their community

28th Feb PATNA Yudhisthira

SKILLED AND EQUIPPED

TASKFORCES FOR SAFE VILLAGES

Community is better prepared to face any future disaster

Integration of School Safety with community Based DRR

• Hazard hunt in each school

• Risk were identified by the students of 100 schools

• School safety plan was incorporated in Community Based planning

•More than 4 months’ food was secured for 3500 HH through seeds support in Rabi crop•Collaboration with National Seeds corporation for quality seeds supply •3500 farmers were supported with Agri-equipments in Bihar which will help them for this Agricultural seasons

Seeds & Agri-equipment Support to Small and Marginal Farmers

Building Resilience through Diversified Livelihoods non farm support

• 1,000 Families were provided with Non Farm support with 10 different skill based livelihoods such as Salon Soap, with following criteria

• Child headed or managed families, women headed families, families whose head was differently abled,  migrant labour

• Landless Share croppers   

Child Friendly Flood Shelter ( CFFS)Creation Of Community Assets For Disaster

Resilience Multi-hazard

Disaster Resilient features - integrated

Masson training on safe construction practices

Earth filling done through MNREGS

Extra Community toilets and tube-well mobilized from PHED

Child friendly element such as separate play area , baby toilets , attractive colours is used for welcoming children and their care giver during emergencies

Children Groups ensured 3 things: ‘0’ child marriages – ‘0’ child labour – ‘0’ school drop

outs..

Child Friendly Flood Safe Shelter ( CFFS)

AMANI CFFS

PURBI THATA CFFS

KHOKSI CFFS

On an average, 1000 persons (neighbourhood of 2 to 3 villages) can take shelter in the severe flooding days

During non-disaster days, it serves as a school, community hall and other creative purposes

Good Concerns by themselves GENERATE Good Resources

Site Mound Raising from MNREGA

Hand pump Community Toilets including Hand

Pumps AMANI CFFS 50,000 100,000

Purbi –Thata CFFS

50,000 100,000

KHUTAHA CFFS

200,000

SISWA CFFS 50,000

KHOKSI RAMGANJ CFFS

50,000 10,000

TOTAL 400,000 10,000 200,000

Around Six lakhs were mobilized from Government of Bihar for CFFS construction

100,000 children from 3 states say: A BIG THANK YOU to ICICI Foundation,

CSOs Partners, Give India and to the state Governments