Monthly Newsletter
January 2017

PMI starts Early Recovery Operations in response to Aceh earthquake

The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) has started early recovery operation in response to Pidie Jaya, Aceh earthquake. The recovery interventions focus on livelihood, shelters and people’s health. These interventions are carried out after the post-emergency response of the disaster that ended last December 2016. Click here to read more

Updates on Building Urban Resilience in South-East Asia project

Find the updates at the regional level, in Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam and Lao PDR here

Cambodia’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programme (WASH) Updates in January 2017

Cambodia Red Cross Society completed the following activities: Handing-over of emergency water purification unit at NHQ and Provincial level, Awareness towards hygiene promotion activity in Kratie, Svay Rieng and Bantey Mean Chey provinces, Installation of solar panels and Hand Pump facility installation in Toul Prasat village, Bantey Mean Chey province Click here to read more

Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA)
Improving communication, engagement and accountability in all we do.

This is a joint effort of the IFRC and ICRC, launched at the end of January 2017. This guide does not present a new activity, but rather adds value to what we are already doing by offering practical advice and support to improve how we communicate with, engage with and are accountable to people in need. It is written for Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and provides advice and support to build CEA in a more systematic, predictable and evidence-based way within the management cycle. Click here to learn more: www.ifrc.org/cea

South East Asia Youth Network Online Meeting | 25 January 2017

16^th South East Asia Youth Network online meeting was held with 13 members from 11 National Societies. They launched the School Safety Mapping Initiative and presented individual NSs’ Youth events. Click here to read more

Roundtable Discussion on Climate Change Adaptation with Inclusion | 24 January 2017 | Bangkok, Thailand

Plan International Asia Regional office hosted the roundtable discussion on the topic of “Climate Change Adaptation with Inclusion”. It is an informal group meeting of international organisations such as the UN and NGOs working in Bangkok. Representatives of IFRC (Youth and Volunteering Officer and Health Officer) actively involved in the discussion by sharing best practices of youth and children, women and elderly in climate change adaptation. Click here to read more

Red Cross Youth launches programme to nurture socially-responsible young leaders

The Singapore Red Cross Youth (RCY) launched a Youth Leadership Badge to provide youths in Singapore with a comprehensive programme for leadership in humanitarian causes. Click here to read more

Launch of School Safety Mapping Initiative by Southeast Asia Youth Network | 25 January 2017

Southeast Asia Youth Network (SEAYN) launched the School Safety Mapping Exercise for Southeast Asia National Societies (NSs) through online meeting. The mapping of the NSs’ school safety programmes and activities will provide an evidence-based visibility to the role of the NSs and will strengthen their advocacy works. Click here to read more

Country	Weather Forecast (Dry or wet)	Likelihood
Brunei	Slightly wet	35-40% (slight likelihood) of wet weather in all areas.
Cambodia	Slightly wet	35-40% (slight likelihood) of wet weather in all areas.
Indonesia	Slightly wet	35-40% (slight likelihood) of wet weather in the central part of the country.
Laos	Slightly wet	35-40% (slight) likelihood of wet weather in the southern and western parts of the country.
Malaysia	Slightly wet	35-40% (slight likelihood) of wet weather in the eastern part of the country.
Myanmar	Unusually wet	Mostly 55% or greater (high likelihood) of wet weather in most southern part of the country with some of the southern part has slight likelihood (35-40%)
Philippines	Slightly wet	35-40% (slight likelihood) of wet weather in the southwestern, south-eastern and northern parts of the country.
Singapore	Not dry nor wet	-
Thailand	Slightly wet	Slight likelihood (35-40%) of wet weather in all areas of the country, except the north-western part.
Timor-Leste	Not dry nor wet	-
Vietnam	Slightly wet	35-40% (slight likelihood) of wet weather in all areas except the northern part.

Upcoming events on February to May 2017
Feb	2	National Disaster Law dissemination	Cambodia
	TBC	Lao Youth Empowerment Programme	Lao PDR
	TBC	Provincial-level Dissemination on Disaster Law	Cambodia
	5-12	Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (e-WASH) training	Prey Veng, Cambodia
	6-10	Monitoring visit from Canadian Red Cross to Bangkok (including M& E workshop and TWG meeting) as part of Regional Resilience Initiative (RRI)	Bangkok
	6-10	National Training on Quantum Geographic Information System (QGIS) methodology (data inputting and mapping)	Quy Nhon, Viet Nam
	13 (TBC)	Asia-Pacific Comprehensive School Safety (APCSS) meeting	Bangkok
	14-15	Second ASEAN Safe School Conference	Bangkok
	21	National Workshop on Knowledge and Attitude Practices (KAP) survey sharing results and feedback	Vientiane, Lao PDR
	21-22	Global Gender and Diversity Network meeting	Oslo, Norway
	24-25	International Conference on Flood Resilience	Jakarta, Indonesia
	13-17	Peer-to-peer exchange visit of Lao Red Cross to Nepal Red Cross on radio programming and community engagement	Nepal
	TBC	Wider Stakeholder Consultation on Disaster and Climate Change Law	Vientiane, Lao PDR
	TBC	Provincial Disaster Law dissemination workshop	Cambodia
	TBC	PMI Roundtable	Indonesia
	TBC	Carrying out filming for story-telling on DRR and resilience activities of VNRC	Viet Nam
	TBC	Advanced training on gender and diversity with Timor-Leste Red Cross Society (CVTL)	Timor-Leste
Mar	1-2	Regional Consultation on Rights of Migrants in Action project	Bangkok
	1-3	ACDM Technical Working Group on Prevention and Mitigation	Bangkok
	7-8	National Workshop on Knowledge and Attitude Practices (KAP) Survey Results Sharing and Feedback	Vientiane, Lao PDR
	14-16	International Training in Hanoi on the whole methodology (participatory data gathering and QGIS mapping)	Viet Nam
	20-24	National Disaster Response Team (NDRT) Training for Thai Red Cross	Thailand
	21-23	International Workshop on QGIS for mapping tool and data collection	Vietnam
	24-31	National Disaster Response Team (NDRT) Trainings with a focus on gender and diversity	Lao PDR
	TBC	Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (e-WASH) training	Lao PDR
	TBC	Training on Project Evaluation	Bangkok
April	18-20	Community Safety and Resilience Forum	Malaysia
	TBC	Field session on Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) with Gender & Diversity lens	TBC
	TBC	Regional Resilience Initiative (RRI) Steering Committee meeting	Bangkok
May	TBC	Regional learning/training on Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA)	TBC
	TBC	Lao-Thai cross-border cooperation meeting	TBC
	TBC	Viet Nam Red Cross Society’s 5-year WASH framework	Viet Nam

One Billion Coalition for Resilience

The One Billion Coalition for Resilience (1BC) is an unprecedented commitment from individuals, communities, organizations, business and governments to mobilize the potential of our collective networks, our ability to work at scale, and to coordinate our shared resources, working toward a world where people are safer, healthier and can thrive, even in the face of adversity. Join now

Youth Facilitator’s Guide: Youth in School Safety” (YSS) Pilot version

This guide aims to empower youth at schools to strengthen the bonds between school children and Red Cross youths, teachers and parents in their specific roles in school safety. Click here to download

Gender and Diversity Organisational Assessment Toolkit

This is the first IFRC tool that focuses on gender and diversity in organisational development (OD), to support National Societies to fulfil their commitments to sensitivity and equity on gender and diversity.

The purpose of this tool is to provide a standard method of conducting an organisational assessment on gender and diversity, focusing on five key thematic areas: political will and leadership, organizational culture, resources and capacities, programme delivery and implementation and accountability. Click here to download: Introduction to the toolkit | Conducting the analysis | Recommendations and Plan of Action | The Assessment Tool