BEDROC
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Building and Enabling Disaster Resilience for Coastal Communities (BEDROC), is a Civil Society Organization (CSO) set up as the successor to the highly-successful, post-tsunami multi-stakeholder entity, the NGO Coordination and Resource Centre. As scheduled, NCRC was dismantled in December 2007, with BEDROC taking over all its long-term activities, CEO & Staff team and the governance mechanisms. BEDROC partners with multiple institutions including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the District Administration.
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[edit] History
Nagapattinam was the most devastated district in the Indian mainland in the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 with the largest number of human lives lost (over 6000), apart from losses to homes and livelihoods. NCRC, set up on January 1, 2005 as an emergency response to the tsunami, was a joint initiative of two prominent local NGOs (SIFFS and SNEHA) and UNDP, and supported by the District Administration, NCRC has been seen as a successful model that enabled inter-agency cooperation, coordination, and programme implementation in disaster relief, recovery and rehabilitation in the district.
In the three years of its work, NCRC's exceedingly competent interventions resulted in a series of initiatives ranging from multi-stakeholder co-ordination to social audits; specific interventions for target groups such as children, and policy advocacy. Beyond programme implementation, NCRC focused on co-evolving, synergizing, and channelling interventions for communities, NGOs, and the administration in collaboration with higher-level organizations such as the IITs, research institutions and universities, ISRO, the State and Central Government. Many of these resulted in much longer-term development initiatives. At the same time, there were many articulated problems at the grassroots that were seen to be addressable by the NCRC model.
[edit] Transition to BEDROC
Building and Enabling Disaster Resilience of Coastal Communities (BEDROC) was established in January 2008 to carry forward NCRC’s activities with a long-term mandate of focusing on integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into the mainstream development agenda and enhancing resilience the communities of this highly vulnerable coastal district.
[edit] Strategies
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To achieve its mission BEDROC will:
- Set in place a mechanism that will incubate interventions. This incubator 'engine' would eventually be able to take up an articulated problem from BEDROC's internal constituencies, arrive at a pilotable solution in consultation with experts and external constituencies, pilot the intervention, fine tuning until it can be replicated though its partners and local NGOs.
- Provide supporting services for policy advocacy for development interventions that have been piloted
- Carry out studies, field trials and appraisals for gathering information for specific programmes
- Provide ICT infrastructure through its VICs for pilots and programmes
- Raise resources--to the extent possible from local sources--for carrying out its programmes
- Maintain the highest degree of professionalism, transparency and accountability carrying out its activities
[edit] Partners
BEDROC works with internal stakeholders such as communities, elected & traditional panchayats, local administration and vertical groups such as the Child Secretariat, and with external stakeholders such as state- and central governments, international organizations, research institutions such as IITs, and universities. This allows BEDROC to create pilots for articulated problems of the internal stakeholders.
BEDROC works closely with TRINet and brings out a newsletter for the community in Tamil called "Alayathi". The April issue of the newsletter is the latest in the series.
