Intense Promotion of the Sendai Framework with the Haitian communities
UNASCAD is committed to promoting the Sendai Framework with the Haitian communities through the dissemination of communication materials such as newsletters and calendars.
Description
Union des Amis Socio Culturels d'Action en Développement (UNASCAD) mission is based on the promotion of the integral development of children, youth, adults and the elderly in the Haitian community. With this commitment, our organization has the goal of contributing to the implementation of the Sendai Framework by promoting its contents among the communities of Croix-des-Bouquets and Tabarre in Haiti. The Sendai Framework calls for the consciousness of all stakeholders in the world to strengthen resilient societies and reduce human life and economic loss. In this sense, UNASCAD has given itself ‘’body and soul’’ and to wrote an action plan 2015-2030 which contains 19 components. This action plan is not exhaustive. It can be useful not only for Haiti but also well for some other countries. Since 2016, UNASCAD publishes newsletters and disseminate to various stakeholders committed in the DRR and also widely at the community level. These newsletters contain information about the importance of Sendai Framework celebration and calendars that mention the dates of activities. As an integral part of the international consensus derived from the UN's major commitment, the intense promotion of the Sendai Framework deserves the very strong attention from key actors in DRR to listen carefully to the cry of people in communities highly vulnerable to disasters and to seek appropriate solutions to enable them to recover from them.
Did the Sendai Framework change or contribute to changes in your activities/organization? If so, how?
UNASCAD participated in the Third UN World Conference held in Sendai Japan. The participation added to the motivation and learned us how make innovation a key process in DRR and the implementation of resilient actions. The results of this conference allowed UNASCAD to modify its interventions, specifically on the production of the newsletter.
What led you to make this commitment/initiative?
What was your position before making this Voluntary Commitment / prior to the Sendai Framework?
Having been a witness of the Third World Conference in DRR in Sendai, here is our great dream: Back to Haiti, we are becoming true ambassadors for the promotion of the Sendai Framework. Yes, our plan action contains a training component for the Sendai volunteers commitment (SVC) in Haiti. We had not started yet since 2016 because of the lack of funds.
Deliverables and Progress report
Deliverables
Deliverables are the end-products of the initiative/commitment, which can include issuance of publications or knowledge products, outcomes of workshops, training programs, videos, links, photographs, etc.
For each celebration of the Sendai Framework, we publish not only newsletters but also calendars which contain and precise the dates for each event previewed marking the duration. Also on the back of this calendar are the components of the anniversary action plan.
After several analyses, we have found that one of the tools that can best contribute to the intense promotion of Sendai Framework is to write and publish a newsletter on a regular basis, especially at the time of its birthday celebration. That's why this newsletter is published through several networks for example:
1) On national plan: FAO network, CLIO network and its commissions, civil Protection networks, UNASCAD networks, UN, State institutions, Embassies, Migration protection network, the contact list of OCHA , PEPA network and other
2) On international plan: GNDR network, civil society network of World Bank, the civil society of CIVICUS, organizing partner, Together 2030 network , TAP network, International organizations network and other.
N.B. - This newsletter touches more 6000 readers.
Organizations and focal points
Implementing Organization(s)
- Centre de la Prédication Évangéliques d'Haiti
- Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction
Focal points
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