Somalia: OXFAM SOMALIA DRR AND HUMANITARIAN CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING

1. BACKGROUND:

The devastating droughts of 2006, 2008 and 2011,highlighted the weak human and institutional capacity, lack of effective policies, rules, regulations and legislative arrangements that increased the instability and fragmentation of Somalia. This left those already vulnerable with less access to life-saving humanitarian support, leading to large population displacement which further put pressure on scarce resources within the region.

Oxfam in Coordination with its partners is pushing for new ways of addressing vulnerability at the household and community level. There is an increasing understanding of the necessity of building local adaptive capacities through medium-to long-term strategies which take into account the importance of early emergency response, climate change, sound environmental practices and disaster preparedness that expand people’s range of choices in institutions and decision making processes.

Oxfam has seen the importance of strengthening its partners capacities on Early Emergency Response and Disaster Risk Reduction through conducting a training incorporating key humanitarian standards and Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) components that will contribute to the implementation of existing humanitarian and DRR programmes ensuring there is a strong link and influencing and shaping donor agendas, advocating for flexible, long-term funding which would enable multi-year, multi-actor resilience programming on a large scale.

Both the Humanitarian and DRR Projects in Oxfam, have ambitious approaches to tackle the challenge of recurrent droughts, floods and other disasters that result to chronic vulnerability in Somalia. Based on the latest global resilience thinking, innovative livelihood approaches for the Somalia context, and bridging the relief to development continuum, it’s important to ensure that our partners, governments and key stakeholders are properly equipped to deliver quality humanitarian response and help communities in building their resilience and developing positive coping mechanism

1. ASSIGNMENT:

Overall Objective of the training

The objective of this training will be to conduct training that focus on early warning, contingency planning and the primary principles of CMDRR. It will also look into improving capacity for Early Humanitarian Response especially linking the early warning information to early action response by improving their capacity to identify, analyze the hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities looking at their internal and external context in order to develop a contingency and early action plan that will be effective, sustainable and applicable to the context in which they are working. This will strengthen Oxfam Partner institutional and staff capacities to respond to emergencies as they occur and to reduce the impact of disasters. Oxfam Somalia partners and their targeted communities are expected to identify, develop and implement innovative projects that increase the resilience of the community against common hazards after the training.

Targeted Participants

Trainees will comprise of one Programme manager and implementing staff from partner organisation and one government representative from the three different Disaster Management Agencies (NERAD,HADMA and DMA), who are involved in the implementation and management of DRR/Humanitarian projects in their organisations. The proposed training will therefore be intended to equip these targeted staff with the necessary capabilities to improve on their Early Emergency Response in event of any disaster and integrate the CMDRR approach in their respective project activities. As a result, the participants will be able to effectively apply the humanitarian principles, tools and CMDRR approach which can guide the design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of interventions that contribute to the resilience of the communities targeted.

1. EXPECTED RESULTS

At the end of the training, participants should be able to:

 Partners understand and are equipped with tools and skills to help them be the first responders to any emergency in collaboration with the relevant government ministries and other stakeholders.

 Demonstrate confidence in minimum Humanitarian principles and core humanitarian competency framework.

 Work with the local community and its structures to develop community disaster risk management plans and advocate for their inclusion in the national DRR Plans.

 Develop a shared understanding of the concept, principles and practices of CMDRR and apply in building disaster resilient communities as well as implement projects/programmes that ensure community participation.

 Analyze various disaster risk reduction frameworks and models with special focus on common hazards in the area of their operation.

 Identify and analyze different types of hazards and examine community managed approaches to reduce disaster risk in their specific context.

 Facilitate the process of participatory risk analysis and assess the impact of major hazards like drought, floods, disease epidemics, conflict, and other common hazards including relevant response options.

 Draw lessons from Oxfam funded programmes in Somalia and how CMDRR can improve programme effectiveness in disaster prevention, preparedness and response

 Demonstrate confidence in use of selected tools in facilitating participatory disaster risk assessment (hazard, capacity and Vulnerability assessment) as basis for designing community projects.

 Make a post-training action plan and follow up strategies demonstrating how the participants are going to carry out the same trainings with the communities’ authoritative structures.

1. DELIVERABLE

At the end of the training the following output is envisaged:

 The facilitator will provide the participants with resources on Humanitarian principles and the Core competency framework to help them build on their skills as the first res-ponders to any emergency.

 Facilitator provides participants with simplified resources that cover CMDRR concepts, principles, process and applications for building disaster resilient communities.

 A concise process report that clearly captures discussions from the participants and emerging recommendations and action points.

All applications should be submitted to somaliajobs@oxfam.org.uk by COB 30th January 2015. When submitting please include your organisation profile, CVs of the trainer/s and a support document justifying why you are the best candidate for this job.