Assessing Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction on Nias Island, Indonesia

IIRR is an international development and training organization. The mission of IIRR is to enable the poor and their organizations to release their full potential to overcome poverty.  Throughout the years, while working with poor rural communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America, IIRR has come to recognize the threat that natural disasters pose to livelihood, food security, health and nutrition of the poor.  In July 2007, Caritas Keuskupan Sibolga (CKS) commissioned the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) to provide technical assistance in designing and implementing a Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) pilot project in Nias Island.  The objective of the workshop was to conduct an independent evaluation of the pilot CMDRR project. The evaluation focused on two areas: the organizational capabilities of IIRR and CKS as shown through the project processes; and CMDRR as an intervention tool, looking at the effectiveness and relevance for the project’s context.