Regardless of the magnitude and scale, when disasters occur, it is always the community that takes the brunt of the impact. How communities prepare, respond, and recover from disasters is very much influenced by their leaders and how these leaders can mobilize resources. This is the very reason why in a crisis, good leaders emerge. Inversely, good leaders make the best out of a crisis.

Leaders therefore are at the forefront of dealing with the impact of disasters that arise from natural or man-made hazards. Several studies have shown that leadership promotes disaster resilience. For instance, leaders play critical roles – by creating social bonds between a community’s members and their trust in societal institutions, by putting in place the basic preparedness, response and recovery mechanisms to disasters, by ensuring that potential responders are trained and all potential crisis management actors exercise on a regular basis, etc. These leaders are also sometimes known as “resilient point person”.

It is in this context that the Mobilization of Resource and Leadership Enhancement Course is proposed to be undertaken.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Assess their resource generation and mobilization capacity;
• Describe the government’s planning and budgeting process;
• Discuss the concepts and principles of resource generation and mobilization for community resilience
• Describe the processes and requirements needed for effective resource generation and mobilization from the private sector; civil society organizations (CSOs); and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
• List different resource generation strategies and approaches

To realize the above objectives, the course shall have the following key sessions:

• Session 1: Resource Generation and Mobilization for Community Resilience: Key Concepts and Principles
  This provides and introduction of key leadership concepts and principles to be developed necessary to achieve community resilience in the face of hazards and disasters.

• Session 2: Government Planning Management and Budgeting Process: Key Requirements and Considerations
  This session looks in the government planning and budgeting process and requirements. In this session participants will be provided with important information necessary for them to be able to effectively access government financial support and resources.

• Session 3: Generating and Mobilizing Resources Effectively from the Private Sector; Civil Society Organizations (CSOs); and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
  One of the key challenges in generating resources for community betterment apart from the dearth of knowledge and skills in resource generation strategies is the knowledge of what institutions can one go to and their requirements to be able to access the needed resources. This session provides a response to such challenge. Apart from the learnings that can be acquired from the session, the output will be an initial directory or database of resource institutions these leaders can access. This very same directory is something that they would continually update as they go on with their governance function.

• Session 4: Resource Generation and Mobilization Strategies
  This session provides the participants with other resource generation and mobilization approaches beyond the technical proposal preparation and more common solicitation and donations. While insights will be provided on these particular strategies and how they can be done more effectively, other strategies and approaches shall be introduced.

• Session 5: Budget Management for Disaster Management and personnel management in the Disaster Management Network, which comes from many organizations.
  This session provides the participant with advice on budget allocations to strengthen disaster management plans and personnel management strategies, which come from many organizations that must work together in the event of an emergency or disaster. How can we build partnerships? and arranging people in the right line of work and chain of command

• Session 6: Effective Negotiation Skills
  This session is more about “sealing the deal” or “making the pitch” to be able to convince resource institutions to support the leaders’ community resilience initiatives. In this session, various negotiation pitfalls shall be touched while required skills to succeed shall be covered.

It will be more effective to conduct this session face-to-face to facilitate learning interaction between the resource and the participants and among the participants.

In delivering the sessions, participatory lectures and discussions will be key approach that will be used supported by experiencing sharing and short group work and presentations. The principle of adult learning shall be applied throughout the course.

After the course, coaching and mentoring shall be provided to the attendees on a voluntary basis. Meaning, only participants who expressed the need technical assistance or support will engage. Appropriate schedules and arrangements can be made for mutual benefit and convenience.

• Senior Managers and Policymakers
• Heads of Government Departments
• Directors of disaster management organizations

• Participants will be able to assess and know the guidelines and procedures for mobilizing resources in times of crisis or disasters in their care area.
• Participants will be able to be leaders in efficient budget planning and allocation.
• Participants will be able to work with teams to formulate strategies for building and mobilizing resources to build communities, or the organization is safer and more secure when various crises occur.

$1,170 (without accommodation)
$1,575 [with accommodation (5 nights)]

Fees are inclusive of course materials (soft copy), cost of instructions, and course certificate. For face-to-face training, the fee is inclusive of morning and afternoon snacks and lunch during the course.

Interested individuals and organizations can register online at www.adpc.net/apply.

For more information about the course, you may also contact Apibarl Bunchongraksa at apibarl@adpc.net and telephone numbers +66 22980681 to 92 ext. 132.