DRR-WG Meeting Meeting Minutes 25th January 2019

Venue: U Thant Conference Room, UNDP Chaired by: Biplove Choudhary, UNDP Time: 15:00 – 17:00

Sr. Agenda Discussions Action Points

1 Introduction of the DRR WG  Chair of DRR WG remarks some of the DRR WG‟s accomplishment in members 2018 as followed. . Supporting and collaborating with government at Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Mongolia ( July ) . Organizing the 2nd Earthquake Forum in ( July) . Nargis 10th year anniversary public outreach campaign in Pathein . Commemoration of International Day for Disaster Reduction 2018 . Government led public Outreach Activities in Nay Pyi Taw . Coordination meeting with government on 2018 flood

2 Reviewing the last meeting  It‟s clarified about the number of participation of agencies.  If there are changes, minutes  Under last agenda AOB session, corrected that IOM recently finished camp agencies will send the management training in Rakhine State. comments by 30th Jan 19.  The meeting minutes will be uploaded in MIMU website. 3 IOM DRR project activities in  IOM presented about their activities in Rakhine State. . For more information, Rakhine and Rakhine DRR  IOM has been working in Migration, Trafficking, DRR, Emergency please contact to Aye Working Group Response and Reconstruction, Camp Coordination and Camp Management. Theint Thu, National  IOM trained CBDRR Training to 218 village tract/ward administrators in Programme Officer < Rakhine. [email protected] >  IOM supported government on development of Township Disaster . To conduct the Management in 4 townships, Emergency Response Contingency Plan for 4 Stocktaking of MAPDRR townships and capacity building trainings. In addition, IOM will also 2017 again among DRR collaborate with UDHRD in Rakhine area. WG members.  IOM is currently supporting government on development of . IOM will share the Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Mapping Guidance. concept note on  Some of the challenges/lesson learnt working in Rakhine areas are – development of Myanmar

- very high turnover rate of government officials Disaster Risk Assessment - limitation of mainstreaming DRR and Risk mapping - limitation in linkage of Township Disaster Management Plan , Village guidance. Tract/Ward Disaster Management Plan and implementation of the activities. - No standardize format on loss and damage assessment - Rakhine DRR WG is chaired by of State Disaster Management and his unavailability  UNICEF suggested to use UNICEF study on child center risk assessment for the children across Myanmar.  Some Agencies show their interest to join with Rakhine DRR WG.  It‟s recommended to conduct the stocktaking of who is doing what, where in Rakhine State. 4 Brief Information about UNDP‟s  In Rakhine, UNDP is implementing the Rakhine Area based programme . For more information, work in Rakhine jointly with funding support from Japan Government. please contact to  As part of this initiative, UNDP is conducting technical assessments to Hyungguen Park, understand institutional and financial gaps of DRR-CCA mainstreaming into Technical Specialist, Rakhine State Government's planning processes. UNDP <  UNDP will also produce a user-friendly report complementing the 2011 [email protected] MHRA with broader scientific and local data on risk of hazards and climate g > change at the state and township level. 5 Brainstorming about DRR WG‟s  The chair of DRR WG briefly mentioned about DRR WG for the new  Agency members agreed way forward members. that current Steering  For the process of reviewing the strategic framework of DRR WG, it is Committee members discussed whether to be discussed with the current steering committee should meet again and members or to reform. discussed on the process  UNICEF suggests considering on the inclusiveness as a lot of agencies are of strategic framework working on the inclusiveness. review.  It is recommended to engage more with government department in the DRR  SC meeting will be WG meeting like meeting for 2018 flood. organized in early  It‟s suggested to consider the linkage with National DRR WG and February 2019. State/Region DRR WGs.  DRR WG members discussed on the scope of WG to consider “Resilience”, “Climate Change Adaptation” etc. and re-branding the DRR WG. 6 AOB  HARP Facility shared information that there is a call for proposal for local  HARP Facility partner agency for community based disaster risk reduction. proposal information  UN-Habitat shared that Ayyarwaddy Region DDM called initial meeting to 5 will be shared in agencies working in Ayyarwarddy Region and shared that DDM ( DRR WG. Ayyarwaddy Region() is planning to develop Disaster Preparedness and

Response Plan. There will be series of consultations.  MDPI shared brief information about government approach Myanmar Preparedness Partnership.  UNICEF will be organizing High Level Forum for policy recommendation and DRR will be one of the agenda to be discussed.  American Red Cross updated some of the information about „Enhancing Disaster Safety in Vulnerable Communities and Schools in Myanmar‟ Project, „Coalition in Coastal Cities Resilience‟ Project and “Preparedness in Myanmar‟ project.  UNDP shared information update on early recovery support in Mon State and supporting government on development of National Recovery Guideline.

Attendance list:

No. Name Organization Email 1 Aung Kyaw Soe BRAC [email protected] 2 Jen Stephens UNICEF [email protected] 3 Ni Ni Win UNICEF [email protected] 4 Ye Htut UNHCR [email protected] 5 Damiend Joud Solidarities International Myanmar [email protected] 6 Lafir Plan International [email protected] 7 Hyungguen Park UNDP [email protected] 8 Martin Cosier UNDP [email protected] 9 Serena Arcone UNDP [email protected] 10 Phyo Haymar Than Htun World Vision [email protected] 11 Lafir Plan International [email protected] 12 Zin Min Than MDPI [email protected] 13 Zin Mar Htoo WFP [email protected] 14 Kyaw Soe Khine HARP-Facility [email protected] 15 Aye Theint Thu IOM [email protected] 16 Pem Wangdi UNDP [email protected] 17 Biplove Choudhary UNDP [email protected] 18 Naw Nau Htoo Cordaid [email protected] 19 Philippe Brewster HARP-Facility [email protected]

20 Shashank UN-Habitat [email protected] 21 Theint Yee Soe UN-Habitat [email protected] 22 Moe Moe Than Win Swiss Embassy [email protected] 23 Matt Pietz FM 360 [email protected] 24 Thida Win American Red Cross [email protected] 25 David Child Fund Myanmar 26 Mai May Htar Phwy Bob UNDP [email protected]