Strategic framework for socioeconomic viability of community-based early warning system
conference paper
Christian Aid, Cordaid, PVGS and Practical Action established a community-based early warning system for cross-border floods between India and Nepal in 45 Indian villages. The project will scale to 95 villages early 2016. The number of stakeholders and organizational levels of this system with four key elements (risk knowledge, monitoring and warning, dissemination and communication, and response capability) makes scaling up towards socio-economical viability challenging. This paper presents a strategic framework of six methodological guidelines across the design, pilot and commercialize phase that can be used to tackle these challenges. We conclude that it is essential to present the government a cost-benefit analysis so as to influence their risk preference and to establish multi-level linkages (national, state and local) so that the bottom-up oriented NGO activities come together with the top-down initiated government activities. We recommend approaches ranging from consultation meetings, learning circles up to serious games to achieve this.
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TNO Identifier
505225
Publisher
ISCRAM
Source title
Proceedings of the ISCRAM-ASIA 2014 Conference, 2nd Asian Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management , 20-21 June 2014, Colombor, Sri Lanka
Editor(s)
Walle, B. van de
Thomalla, F.
Waidyanatha, N.
Zhang, T.
Thomalla, F.
Waidyanatha, N.
Zhang, T.
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