1. Aug 2009, Kathmandu
Surakshit Samudaya II
Building Disaster Resilient Communities, Nepal
REFLECT REFRESHER TRAINING
REPORT
ActionAid Nepal DIPECHO Project Publication
REFLECT in DIPECHO - Refresher Course for REFLECT Facilitators
ActionAid Nepal is implementing a project 3 project districts of Nepal. From
titled “Surakshit Samudaya II”, a DIPECHO September 2009 onwards, more than 300
project in two disaster prone districts of sessions have been conducted sensitizing
Nepal, towards building disaster resilient about 700 participants including 480
comm unities thr ough di saster women. These participants further
management. The 15 months project is disseminate knowledge to their families
funded by European Commission and neighbors.
Humanitarian Aid department under fifth
DIPECHO Action Plan for South Asia and co- In order to strengthen REFLECT process
financed by Australian Government on disaster risk reduction, disaster Learning through games and drills
through AUSAID. preparedness and social issues, a three
days long training on REFLECT Refresher A need assessment prior to the
AAN-DIPECHO V project has 15 REFLECT was organized during 11-13 December training session identified that
facilitators who conduct 32 reflect circles in 2009 in Wildlife Resort, Bardiya. REFLECT facilitators wanted to know
how to use PVA findings to generate
DRR discourses within the
Who is a REFLECT Facilitator? community. Thus REFRESHER course
focussed on drawing PVA lessons
A Guide — A friend — A teacher/facilitator — Motivator — Change Agent — and linking it to REFLECT based
Counselor — Advocate of Rights — Person of principles and values — A education in the community.
person with optimism — Resource Person — A Role Model.
Training Objective and methodologies
Objective of the training Training Methodology Facilitation
The objectives of the REFLECT The training was organized in The lead facilitator of training
Refresher training were: highly participatory method was Shyam Sundar Jnavaly. Few
encouraging each and every sessions on leadership skills
 To seek possible solution of participant in discussion, self- were taken by Dillu Raj Ghimire.
the problems faced by the analysis, presentation and The knowledge session on
facilitators while organizing practises. The methodologies climate change was taken by
reflect sessions used were presentation brain Ashok Raj Pokharel. The input
 To enhance knowledge, skills storming, pair wise discussion, on issues of logistic and finances
and capacity of the facilitators group discussion, role plays, were provided by Shaurabh
to become more capable micro-teaching, slogan and Sharma.
facilitators games. A documentary on
Climate Change was shown and
 To orient the participants on discussed during the training.
the Responsibility and Right
Based approach, PVA & The materials used during the
climate change training were Meta card,
newsprint, brown paper, LCD,
 To develop facilitation Laptop, and documentary film.
techniques of participants, The books like Prakop Gyan
thereby enhancing personality Mala, Pre and Post disasters,
and leadership skills of the Learning of Popular education
facilitators and handout were distributed. Back to Class Room environment

2. Surakshit Samudaya II: Building Disaster Resilient Communities, Nepal
Participants
There were 15 participants from local implementation partners,
covering all the Reflect facilitators and one social mobilizers. Apart from
partners field staffs, one participant was from ActionAid long term
partners DA/DIs.
Mr. Bidhyananda Ms. Meena Urawa, Ms. Shantidevi Mawrya,
Mehata, UPCA UPCA BEE Group
Mr. Dev Narayan Mr. Alam Miya, Ms. Hasina Bano Mukeri,
Sharma, UPCA UPCA BEE Group
Mr. Khyam B. Ms. Rita Ms. Raj Kumari
Dahal, UPCA Chaudhary, UPCA Harijan, BEE Group
Ms. Anita Gupta, Ms. Kamali Chaudhary Ms. Sarita Kumari
UPCA UPCA Chaudhary, NP
Slogan for training Ms. Krishna Raut, Ms. Nirmala Mr. Shishir Poudyal,
Nav Prabhat Budhathoki, NP Activist
Our goal: Surakshit Samudaya
Our Work: Disaster Preparedness
Our Campaign: Risk Reduction To reach key messages including use of PVA information and improving
Our Friends: Poor, Women, Dalit, Disabled facilitation skills, the facilitators modelled many of the sessions, so as
Janjati, & Children to give first hand experience of using information and skills at the field
Training procedure, evaluation and outcome
The three days refresher training was Training was successful to boosting the
initiated with agreeing on the confidence of the facilitators. Drawing
objectives prepared on the basis of from participants’ evaluation, the
participants’ expectation. Training training was able to achieve its objective
management team was formed to run of making capable facilitators to
the training smoothly. effectively conduct reflect centers in
their respective areas.
The training was made interesting by
using various methodologies. The Using PVA in REFLECT
broad topics of the training were:
REFLECT facilitators learned how to use
Problem Solving, Use of PVA tools in
the information generated through PVA
Reflect, Rights and Responsibilities in
in their regular DRR discourses within the
DRR, Role of reflect facilitators, Climate
community through REFLECT circles. Use
change and so on.
of social and vulnerability maps etc. are
The participants were encouraged to critical to give a pictorial understanding
present the updates as well as of vulnerabilities that will help
potential challenges. The facilitators community take its own decisions.
suggested potential solutions to these
problems. Ranking of most liked PVA Climate Change and DRR
tools for Reflect sessions was done The impact of changing climate on the
which were social map, problem tree, lives and livelihood of people cannot be
seasonal calendar, and time line. ignored. Uncertainty over climate results
in emergencies and it is important for the
Tips for facilitation skills were also
project to make people aware of this a critical role in mobilizing,
illustrated. Finally after evaluation,
change in their lives, thereby bringing empowering and changing community
participants were given time to
issues related to climate change and DRR knowledge, attitude and practices. This
appreciatively think about dream
from an unconscious level to a conscious requires high level of motivational and
village. They come up with few of the
level. This will in turn help people to be leadership skills. The participants were
action plan.
proactive to adapt themselves to exposed to some practical and useful
REFLECT facilitators were encouraged vagaries of nature. leadership drills so as to inculcate skills
to use diverse methods such as PVA to become proactive and efficient
tools, role plays, singing, story telling REFLECT Facilitators as Leaders social change agents. The leadership
while conducting reflect centers upon REFLECT facilitators are not just class drills surely improved the confidence
returning to their areas. room teachers. They are expected to play and self-motivation of the participants.