Applications invited for India Disaster Resilience Leadership Fellowship.

Fellowship title: Applications invited for India Disaster Resilience Leadership Fellowship.

Deadline: 12^th April 2019

About the fellowship

India, the second most populous country in the world, is one of the most disaster-prone owing to its geo-climatic conditions and socio-economic vulnerabilities. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5 °C Special Report highlights that India is vulnerable to hydro-meteorological disasters and severe impacts of climate change, across rural and urban regions. It is also to be noted that India has over 53 million-plus cities as per Census 2011 and the total urban population in the country is more than 377 million constituting 31.1 percent of the total population. In addition to being exposed to several environmental risks, these urban areas are also exposed to several socio-economic vulnerabilities

Structure of the fellowship

Fellows will be able to choose either Urban Risk or Resilience (URR) or Community-based Disaster Resilience (CBDR) as key concentrations of the fellowship, which is structured around two residential workshops (each one week long) spanned over four months. Fellows will be immersed in a working group of their choice, in either URR led by IIHS or in CBDR led by TISS, with a focus on the north-eastern states. The CBDR concentration specifically targets leaders and participants from or working in the northeast region.

Learning Objectives

• Understanding key tenets of disaster resilience
• Understanding the complex ways in which disaster risk impacts vulnerable communities and examine various approaches to build community resilience
• Appreciating specific challenges, opportunities and drivers in building urban resilience and CBDR
• Appreciating the role of leadership in building disaster resilient urban systems and communities

Who can apply?

• Persons with interest in the concept of disaster risk and resilience – including those interested in the development/building resilience of their own local community.
• Graduate level students/early career and start-up professionals – from fields of disaster management, engineering-technology, social sciences, architecture, planning, sustainable development, sustainable businesses, business administration, public policy and other related fields.
• Civil society practitioners – involved with or running NGOs, CSOs and social enterprises, especially those engaging in community mobilisation, community-level resilience building, disaster response, recovery and financing and climate change adaptation work on ground.
• Private-sector actors – such as those who work in funding agencies, CSR related work (multilateral/bilateral/national level), technology, communications, energy and other related fields whose work can contribute to and redefine disaster recovery and resilience building.

Eligibility Criteria

Ideal applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in any discipline, preferably combined with relevant work experience. All candidates must have basic proficiency in English. Exceptional candidates with relevant work experience without Bachelor’s degree may also be considered.

Timeline and important dates

• Applications Open: 18 March 2019
• Applications Close: 12 April 2019
• Intimation of selected candidates: 03 May 2019
• Fellowship Week 1: Kochi 03 - 07 June 2019
• Fellowship Week 2: Mumbai 23 - 27 September 2019

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