Learning Outcomes
1. Analyse the determinants of resilience.
2. Evaluate and apply appropriate methods for engaging with communities for the assessment of adaptive resilience.
3. Propose appropriate methods to build community resilience effectively.
4. Design appropriate community based monitoring and evaluation approaches.
Task and Mark distribution:
A fully referenced report with an introduction and conclusion with three main sections.
Title: Framework and associated rationale for effective community engagement and resilience for emergencies and disasters.
This assignment is comprised of 3 sections.
1. An evaluation of the concept of resilience and at risk communities (750 - 1000 words).
a. Summarise current academic discourse on the concept of resilience and how it relates to risk reduction and sustainability - A critique of the reading provided on resilience and you should aim to include material that you have sourced yourself. how resilience related to risk reduction and preparedness ? how is it differ from disaster risk reduction.? How you are going to use
b. You should also try to make links to aligned concepts, models and theories as discussed in the module - risk & vulnerability, theories associated with community, political ecology, sustainability etc.
c. You should use case studies (~2) to illustrate your discussion.
d. Try to evaluate rather than describe the various perspectives in your text.
e. Cite material used in the text properly using Harvard and include a complete reference list (a good range and quality of material).
2. Development of an original framework for community engagement for resilience that could be used as a guide for practitioners working with communities to design and implement a resilience building intervention (A4 or A3 in size if you need more space).
a. What is a framework? - a "skeleton" of elements (in this case, steps or tasks?) and how they interact. It shows the structure or configuration and interrelationship between elements in a system, approach or process. It can (should) also depict external factors and influences.
b. For your framework you will need to merge "elements" and influences from researched approaches to engagement, participation, building resilience and monitoring interventions etc to design your own framework which you or other practitioners might refer to in practice.
c. Present your framework as a diagram showing the configuration of steps/tasks/activities, tools, considerations/challenges, indicators and external influences etc( Diagram very Important )
d. You can develop it in word, PowerPoint (and save it as an image.BUT it will need to be merged into one document with components 1 and 3 for a single online submission.
3. A rationale for key elements and structure of the framework (how it works..) based on literature pertaining to community engagement, participation for resilience (750 - 1000 words).
a. Provide a review of (literature about) engagement and participation in resilience that supports the key (most important) elements (steps, tools, indicators etc..) of your framework and its structure - i.e. supporting evidence for when and how to engage with communities to develop a resilience building project.
b. Try to evaluate rather than describe the various perspectives in your text.
c. Cite material used in the text properly using Harvard and include a complete reference list (a good range and quality of material).
1. An evaluation of the concept of resilience (detail as above). Each component carries equal mark value
2. Development of an original framework for community engagement for resilience (detail as above).
3. A rationale for key elements and structure of the framework based on literature pertaining to community engagement and participation (detail as above)
First section
what is community resilience
Concept of resilience.
Chronological prospective, key authors.
Frame end of section how you are going to use term resilience for the remain of your assignment?
Not just your own opinion but Clearly saying historical prospective.
Tradianal view of resilience
More recently used resilience Prospective etc.
Limitations on tradional views.
Two to three definitions of resilience together and explain the one (writer I) like this bit of one definition, and this bit of other one.
Second section
How to do community engagement.
Stepwise, how you design intervention, how opening door,
Collison's diagram or may be a flow chart
Logical stepwise for community resilience,
Generac, non-community specific,
Third section
Demonstrating why we do it this way
frame work should illustrate good practice, Diagram or flow chart
How do we do community resilience? the way we do it? How we do it.
Structure should be explaining new guide how to do community resilience?
Understanding what resilience is? understanding the community?
tools and mechanism of engaging with that community,
how to develop resilience intervention
Why do we engage in this?
Why do we need to understand community?