19/07/2024
NIDM, under MHA, Govt. of India, hosted a 3-day SBCC training from July 3rd to 5th, 2024, uniting officials and experts from 21 States and UTs. SBCC is critical for disaster preparedness, translating awareness into proactive community actions. It influences attitudes and behaviors, ensuring timely communication throughout all emergency phases—Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery—to foster a culture of readiness.
In India, where disasters like earthquakes and floods affect millions, SBCC thus, becomes imperative. The current NIDM and UNICEF's partnership for SBCC shall empower government officials and stakeholders with SBCC skills, integrating it into disaster risk management. They offer a SBCC module and toolkit with behavioural messages for various disasters.
Key focuses include:
🔶 Understanding core SBCC concepts.
🔶 Applying people-centred approaches.
🔶 Utilizing community feedback.
🔶 Identifying communication barriers and enablers.
🔶 Using the SBCC toolkit for effective disaster risk reduction.
Under Shri Rajendra Ratnoo's guidance, NIDM stresses people-centric approaches in SBC and DRR, prioritizing community perspectives. Key aspects include robust community feedback mechanisms for program effectiveness, addressing communication barriers, and utilizing tailored channels. Proficiency in the SBCC-DRR toolkit aids in designing, implementing, and evaluating targeted interventions.
Dr. Sushma Guleria (Course coordinator) gave an overview of the NIDM, SBCC-UNICEF Project.
Ms. Gulshan Hira, Mr. Moses Prakasham (Young Professionals) and Ms. Aditi Minhas (Intern) managed the overall program.
Dennis Christian Larsen, Chief, Social and Behaviour Change, India Country Office, UNICEF - Discussed the Importance and implementation of SBCC-UNICEF Project.
Ms. Shalini Prasad, UNICEF- SBCC specialist, India, presented the way forward of the SBCC Programme.
Mr. Nisar Ahmed and Ms. Varsha Chanda from ENVISIONS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT conducted technical sessions on Communication approaches for SBC in DRR, Key Principles: Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) and People Centred Approach (PCA), Convergence with Health & WASH: The A3 Loop, etc.
A Group work on Master of Disaster (MOD) was conducted by ASSIST Organization, Assist is an international partner with changemakers around the world to provide solutions that save lives and build resilient communities, the session was moderated by Ms. Vaishnavi and Ms. Meenakshi from the organization.
Together, let's build resilient communities and reduce the impact of disasters.
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