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Mission East is a Danish international non-governmental relief and development organisation which works to help the vulnerable through humanitarian relief aid, development assistance, the linking of relief, rehabilitation and development and through supporting communities’ capacity to organise and assist themselves.
Mission East works in response to community needs, focusing its work within its established core sectors of emergency response, WASH, food security, livelihoods, DRR and disability/inclusion. Mission East has programmes running in Armenia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nepal and Tajikistan and works with local partners in Burma and North Korea. Projects are implemented directly by Mission East and with local partners.
Reduce communities' vulnerabilities to disasters
* building local capacity to respond to and mitigate natural hazards with a grassroots CBDRM 'bottom up' approach.
* promoting a culture of safety and resilience through awareness-raising and advocacy
* structural mitigation improvements and adaptation to long term effects of climate change
* ensuring inclusion of the most vulnerable in our processes to enable their full participation and adapted support during CBDRM activities
* EU-CORD
* Integral Alliance
* VOICE
*CONCORD
Peter Drummond Smith
[email protected]
http://www.miseast.org
* Contribute to national DM policy review with an emphasis on inclusive and community-based DRR (Nepal)
* Design Comparative Risk Assessment for rural areas (Tajikistan)
* Implement risk assessment in more than 300 communities (Tajikistan, Nepal)
* Earthquake non-structural mitigation awareness
* Community risk mapping and DRR planning
Creation of Village Disaster Management Groups (Tajikistan, Nepal)
* Support to district and national level authorities to plan disaster preparedness (Tajikistan, Nepal)
* Community awareness on disaster risk reduction communities (Tajikistan and Nepal)
allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.