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New Green Recovery & Reconstruction Training Toolkit
Published on 1 April 2010
A Humanitarian-Conservation Initiative
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Humanitarian Partnerships Program provides advice and training to aid organizations and governments on better practices for sustainably rebuilding communities impacted by disaster. The Humanitarian Partnerships Program was borne out of WWF’s collaboration with the American Red Cross following the 2004 Asian Tsunami, which resulted in sustainable reconstruction in Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, the Maldives and Indonesia. The Humanitarian Partnerships Program uses a ‘design through implementation’ approach to reduce risk and vulnerability, ensure that reconstruction efforts include environmentally sustainable considerations and achieve long-lasting results for affected communities. It focuses on rebuilding livelihoods, shelter, water and sanitation, while protecting natural resources and strengthening communities against future disasters.
One major outcome and accomplishment of the partnership with the American Red Cross is the Green Recovery & Reconstruction Training Toolkit (GRRT). A comprehensive training program for field practitioners in humanitarian aid, development, government, and conservation, the GRRT provides practical techniques for integrating environmental sustainability with recovery and reconstruction as a lasting solution to rebuilding communities affected by natural disasters, complex emergencies, or conflict.
The GRRT helps make communities stronger and more resilient by making environmental issues an integral part of the recovery process. GRRT includes elements of project design, monitoring, and evaluation; impact assessment tools and techniques; strategic site selection and development; key concepts of construction, such as the materials supply chain; and sector-specific attention to water and sanitation, livelihoods, and green organizational operations.
A special Green Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction places particular emphasis on identifying those environmental aspects that contribute to risk and the role that the sustainable use of environmental resources has in reducing disaster risk. With respect to increasing challenges represented by the effects of natural resource degradation and climate change, this module provides relevant tools for increasing awareness of risk factors in order to more effectively adapt and mitigate potential consequences.
"The Green Recovery & Reconstruction Toolkit is definitely something that the Red Cross should include in their trainings ... Having it right from the start of building up communities after they've been through a disaster in an environmentally sustainable way is crucial and very important to have as an approach within the work of a organization such as the Red Cross, and is a big step forward in our efforts to build safer communities.”
Andrea Lorenzetti of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, who attended the first round of pilot testing for the GRRT in Sri Lanka.
The complete GRRT is scheduled for general release in June 2010.
For more information about the Humanitarian Partnerships Program please visit http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/partners/humanitarian/index.html or contact Anita.VanBreda@wwfus.org.
For more information about the Green Recovery & Reconstruction Training Toolkit, please contact Jonathan.Randall@wwfus.org
Photo: WWF staff training American Red Cross partner staff in home garden preparation. ©WWF/IUCN
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