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World Bank Grants:
Second ProVention Consortium
Applied Research Grants for Disaster Reduction
The Provention Consortium organised the Applied
Research Grants Program for Disaster Reduction
to support innovative action research by young
professionals from developing countries. The
program was managed by the World Bank's Hazard
Management Unit (HMU) in collaboration with the
University of Wisconsin - Disaster Management
Center (UW - DMC), the Asian Disaster
Preparedness Center (ADPC) and Disaster
Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme
(DiMP), University of Cape Town, South Africa.
ADPC was responsible for the grants awarded to
grantees from East Asia and the Pacific (EAP)
and South Asia. After the first successful round
of the grant in 2003-2004, the second round with
a period of 9 months has started in September,
2005. Applications with proposals were invited
from researchers under the age of 35, and were
reviewed by an independent review panel which
made the selection on a competitive basis.
Grants to researchers from Asia
Of the 55 grants awarded world wide, 22 were
from the East Asia, Pacific and South Asia
regions. The country wise distribution of
grantees was as follows:
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East Asia and Pacific |
South Asia |
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China - 2
Indonesia- 1
Mongolia - 1
Philippines - 1
Thailand - 1
Vietnam - 1 |
Bangladesh - 1
India - 5
Nepal - 6
Pakistan - 1
Sri Lanka- 2 |
List of Grantees with Project Title
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ID # |
Applicant |
Country |
Project Title |
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2190BGD |
Mr. Mohammed Yeah Yea
Khan |
Bangladesh |
Indigenous Risk Reduction
Practices in Flood-Prone Areas of
Bangladesh |
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2048CHN |
Ms. Hongzhou Lai |
China |
The Study on Reinforcing
Houses Using Bamboo in the Rural Areas
Prone to Earthquake, Yunnan Province |
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2062CHN |
Ms. Jing Liu |
China |
Water Scarcity and
Changing Agriculture Production System
in Guizhou Province |
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2017IND |
Ms. Sweta Byahut |
India |
Integrating Disaster
Mitigation in Urban Planning Practices
in India |
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2051IND |
Mr. Arjimand Hussain Wani |
India |
Institutional and
Community Capacity Building in Disaster
Management in Kashmir |
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2059IND |
Ms. Laveena Rathore |
India |
Delineation of High Risk
Zones in Tamil Nadu Coast, India |
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2093IND |
Mr. Mihir Joshi |
India |
Participatory Development
of Home-Owners Disaster-Resistant
Building |
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2137IND |
Mr. Tapan Patel |
India |
Risk Reduction through
Community Driven Disaster Management
Plan in Earthquake Affected Region of
Gujarat, India |
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2154IND |
Mr. Aditya Riadi Gusman |
Indonesia |
Modeling of Coastal
Protection from Tsunami Using Vegetation
(Mangrove) |
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2193LKA |
Ms. Sanjeewani Somarathna |
Sri Lanka |
Development of a Web
Based Meta-Database of Tsunami related
Activities Implemented in Sri Lanka
along with a Public Awareness Seminar
Series on Natural Disasters |
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2202LAK |
Ms. Achala Navaratne |
Sri Lanka |
Strengthening
Environmental Laws to Reduce Risk and
Vulnerability among Sri Lanka’s Coastal
Populations in the Context of
Post-Tsunami Reconstruction |
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2053MNG |
Ms. Otgonchimeg
Choidogjav |
Mongolia |
a Flood Risk Analysis of
Capital City Ulaanbaatar |
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2085NEP |
Ms. Kanchana Subedi |
Nepal |
Using local knowledge to
Understand and Mitigate Community Risks
from Climate Change in Nepal |
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2136NEP |
Mr. Deepak Paudel |
Nepal |
Community Based Risk
Reduction in Rural Nepal: A Case Study
of Ratu River Watershed |
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2170NEP |
Mr. Krishna Prasad Sharma |
Nepal |
Landslide Risk Assessment
in Thana Maula VDC, Prabat |
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2181NEP |
Mr. Binod Shrestha |
Nepal |
Developing a Set of
Standard Building Design Suitable for
Nepal |
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2183NEP |
Ms. Hima Shrestha |
Nepal |
Development of Seismic
Retrofitting Scheme for Typical Nepali
Non-Engineered Masonry infill Reinforced
Concrete Framed Buildings |
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2184NEP |
Mr. Bhoj Raj Khanal |
Nepal |
Effectiveness of Risk
Reduction Mechanisms for Forest Fires in
Nepal: A Comparative Study between
Buffer Zone and Non-buffer Zone
Community Forests |
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2078PHL |
Ms. Mayfourth Luneta |
Philippines |
Child Oriented
Participatory Risk Assessment and
Planning |
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2239PAK |
Mr. Mujeep Alam |
Pakistan |
Community Risk Index
(CRI) Toolkit for Conducting
Community-Wide Vulnerability Assessment
and Computing Composite Hazard Risk
Index in Northern Mountainous Regions of
Pakistan |
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2157THA |
Ms. Tavida Kamolvej |
Thailand |
Interagency Coordination
in Emergency Response Operations |
|
2058VNM |
Mr. Hoang Quang Vinh |
Vietnam |
Seismic Hazard Assessment
in Hoa Binh Hydropower Dam |
ADPC contributions
ADPC was an implementing partner which played a
key support role in the grants program as
follows:
ADPC provided widespread dissemination of the
announcement of the grant awards scheme and
invited applications from young professionals
through an announcement in its newsletter, on
its website as well as sending the call for
applications to over 300 partner organisations
in universities, technical institutions,
Government departments, Red Cross & Red Crescent
Societies, NGOs, research institutions, UN
Agency regional and country offices. Each
addressee was in turn requested to publicise the
scheme among their partners.
Once selected, direct communication was
established with each grantee and their
mentor/advisor. This conveyed terms of the
grant, reporting requirements and communication
details within ADPC.
In addition each grantee was offered a DM
information kit based on a selection of reading
materials, and offered information support in
terms of access to specific documents in the
ADPC library, to be identified by the grantee
through an online search. Effort was made to
link each grantee with DM organisations in
country in the government and NGO sector,
academics and ADPC staff interested in their
area of study.
Based on receipt and review of the initial and
mid term reports, ADPC provided some input and
guidance on maximising the impact of the study
being undertaken. This was primarily in the form
of encouraging establishment of links with the
local government and community based
organisations in the area of study, undertaking
a suitable form of communication with the
community being studied through preparation of a
communication product (e.g. booklets, posters)
and feeding back the results of research.
ADPC coordinated the disbursement of grant
payments in three instalments and undertook
scrutiny of receipts and the compliance of
expenditure with grant norms. |
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