- Title
- Building capacity and developing community women leadership for disaster resilience in Fiji
- Creator
- Giggins, Helen; Ahmed, Iftekhar; Gajendran, Thayaparan
- Relation
- 8th International Conference on Building Resilience. Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Building Resilience (Lisbon 14-16 November, 2018) p. 406-411
- Publisher
- Universidade de Lisboa
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Worldwide disasters have a cumulative global impact, while the nature, characteristics and typology of disasters vary widely across regions and localities. Communities in Fiji, particularly in remote and rural locations, are highly vulnerable to hazards. Women in such contexts are usually embedded in their communities and have strong potential as community leaders to contribute to disaster resilience. This paper presents the outcomes of an action research project conducted in Fiji in 2017. The aim of the project was focused on building capacity of Fijian women in disaster risk assessment, preparedness, response and recovery through a ‘Training of Trainers’ (ToT) Program. The team worked with key local stakeholders in Fiji to provide ToT and support for empowering women leaders for disaster resilience. Beginning with a project planning workshop in Suva, a ToT on women and disaster resilience was then run in Nadi for stakeholders from key agencies in Fiji. A team of Fijian policewomen trainers who were trained at the ToT were then provided a training package and support to run a training course in Naboutini village. Initial assessment of the training undertaken in this pilot study was very encouraging, including positive feedback from the stakeholders involved and indication of a strong appetite for further training to be undertaken in the community. Future work will look to facilitate mechanisms for long- term assessment, quality assurance and sustenance of the capacity building initiative through local ownership.
- Subject
- resilience; community participation; gender; disaster risk reduction; Fiji
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1475762
- Identifier
- uon:49645
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789895474103
- Language
- eng
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