Framework for Country Based Capacity Development on Resilient Infrastructure

1. Framework for Country
Based Capacity
Development
on Resilient Infrastructure
Presentation by
Bibhuti Bhusan Gadanayak
Currently serving as : Senior Technical Advisor, DRM & Emergency
UNDP – MINEMA, Kigali – Nyarugemge, Rwanda
Presented on 5th July 2021 at CDRI from Rwanda

2. Session
outline
Global commitments-Resilient Infrastructure (RI)
Resilient Infrastructure
Key areas of capacity development
Purpose and methods of capacity development
Elements of capacity development
Programming capacity development
Challenges – opportunities -Areas to be strengthened
Proposed framework for country-based capacity
development – Resilient Infrastructure Systems and
Institutions

3. Global commitments -
Resilient infrastructure
SDG
SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable
industrialization and foster innovation (SDG: 11,13)
SFDR
R The SFDRR-2015-30 highlights the role of improved disaster resilience
of infrastructure as a cornerstone for sustainable development.
PA Ensuring that infrastructure is resilient to climate change can
support the achievement of the goals of the Paris Agreement, including
through increasing the ability to adapt to climate change.

4. Resilient Infrastructure
Resilient infrastructure is about people, their households and communities for whom infrastructure is a lifeline
to better health, better education, better livelihood and better human development
Resilient infrastructure is about building bridges that can withstand more frequent natural calamities and
unforeseen disasters
And it is also about making people to get urgent medical care, that their children can get into schools and to
restore normalcy and human capabilities
Who says what
EU - estimates that CC-related damage to infrastructure could grow tenfold in coming
decades
ADB – To lower these impacts, the infrastructure need to be made more resilient
WB – Reports adverse impact of disaster is indicated for low-medium income countries due
to infrastructure disruptions which costs ($391 billion and $647 billion per annum )
Studies suggest that natural hazards are responsible for 10 to 70 % of the disruptions.
In this context investing in DRR is a precondition for developing sustainable climate change
interventions and policies focusing RI Systems and Institutions.
PM 10-point agenda
1. Mainstreaming
DRR in Public
Expenditure
particularly in
infrastructure
development

5. Key areas
of
capacity
developmen
t
A clear policy framework
Institutional development and legal
framework
Empowerment and engagement of civil
society
Human resources improvements including
education, research, advocacy and training
Sustainability in ensuring progress towards
SDG.

6. Purpose
and
methods of
capacity
developme
nt
Purpose – Sustainability
of enabling environment
Capacity development is the
process through which
individuals, organizations
and societies obtain,
strengthen and maintain the
capabilities to set and
achieve their own
development objectives over
time.
Methods
• Baseline survey
• Prioritisation
• Design solutions with
multi-sectoral
approaches
• Training
• Funding for activities
• Mentoring
• Monitoring and
Evaluation.
• Supportive supervision-
mid course correction

7. 5 steps of the
capacity development cycle
CAPACITY
DEVELOPME
NT PROCESS
STEP:I
Engage
stake holders
on capacity
development
STEP:IV
Implement a
capacity
development
response
with
mentoring
STEP: V
Evaluate
capacity
development
STEP:II
Assess
capacity,
assets and
need
STEP:III
Formulate
capacity
development
programme

8. Programmi
ng capacity
developme
nt
Dos Don’t’s
 engage with national systems and
integrate your work in existing
national processes
 Promote alliance building with
multi-sectoral Partnership
 set-up parallel structures and
mechanisms to implement
programmes and projects
 integrate capacity development
systematically in all programming
 Capacity development actions and
indicators must integrate within
the M&E supportive supervision
framework.
 treat capacity development as an
afterthought in programme and
project development –
BUSINESS AS USUAL
 limit or retrofit capacity
development to activities – for
example a training workshop
 Ensure sustainability and develop
exit strategy, leaving no one
behind with appropriate
mentoring – Ex. IAG
 think that sustainability is
something that will occur
automatically, it needs to be
planned strategically

9. Challenges – opportunities
Areas to be strengthened
Need
Capacity
Developme
nt
Coming 10 - 15 years
 Energy production would be doubled
 The highways would increase 1.5 times
 Metro railway length would increase around 6 times
Areas to be strengthened
 Establishing continuous systems of risk assessment
 Up to date standards of futuristic regulation
 Attractive finance structure - inbuilt resilience
 Recover the damaged structure
 Documentation of best practices and challenges
What
we
have:
Technology,
Standards,
Access
to
technology
Intellectual
Infrastructu
re – no. of
engineers to be
trained

10. Proposed framework for country-based Capacity
Development – RI systems and Institutions
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS and CD PLAN
INSTITUTIONAL
ARRANGEMENTS
LEADERSHIP KNOWLEDGE ACCOUNTABILITY
• Streamlined RI based systems and
processes
• Clear definition of roles and
responsibilities
• Merit-based appraisal mechanism
• M&E
• Multi-Sectoral Coordination
• Country led formulated vision
• Communication standards
• Management tools
• Outreach mechanism – communities
in difficulties
• Research supply and demand linkage
mechanism
• Brain gain and retention strategies
• Knowledge sharing tools, strategies and
advocacy
• Mentoring
• Audit systems and practice
standards
• Participatory planning
mechanism
• Stakeholder feedback and
community empowerment
Availability of Resources (human, financial and physical) and competencies
Enabling environment - Capacity Development Core Issues/Responses
RI SYSTEMS &
INSTITUTIONS
Input
Output:
Change
in
capacity
level
across
issues
SUSTAINABILITY ADAPTABILITY
Output:
Change
in
Institutional
performance
Sustainability
and
adaptability
Impact:
Change in
people’s well-
being and
resilience
capabilities
PERFORMANCE

11. Selected references
1. CDRI promotes Resilient Infrastructure to withstand climate and disaster risk, Sandeep Poundrik, IAS, DG, CDRI, Tera Green
2. BB Gadanayak, J K Routray (2010), A Path to disaster resilient communities, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany
3. UNISDR (United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction). Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction 2015–2030.
UNISDR, 2015.
4. Prime Ministers Ten Point Agenda on Disaster Risk Reduction, AMCDRR 2016
5. UN SDG Global Report, 2020
6. The World Bank. India development update, July 2020. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2020
7. Outcome of the World Humanitarian Summit Report of the Secretary-General, UNGA, 2016
8. Capacity Development, A UNDP Premier
9. Lifeline, The resilient Infrastructure Opportunity, World Bank
10.Climate Resilient Infrastructure, Policy Prospective, OECD Policy Paper 14
11.A Panda and N Ramos, Options for addressing Infrastructure Resilience, Working paper, UNDRR
12.United Nations Global Assessment Report.
13.https://gar.undrr.org/
14.Words into Action guidelines: National disaster risk assessment.
15.www.undrr.org/publication/words-action-guidelines-national-disaster-risk-assessment
16.UNDRR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign.
17.www.unisdr.org/campaign/resilientcities/
18.Coalition for Disaster Resilient infrastructure.