Adventist Development and Relief Agency
Mission
ADRA seeks to identify and address social injustice and deprivation in developing countries. The agency’s work seeks to improve the quality of life of those in need. ADRA invests in the potential of these individuals through community development initiatives targeting Food Security, Economic Development, Primary Health and Basic Education. ADRA’s emergency management initiatives provide aid to disaster survivors.
ADRA implements its disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategy through targeted projects, while mainstreaming DRR activities into our long-term development and disaster response projects. When ADRA responds to disasters around the world, communities quickly receive appropriate help as we move from emergency response into recovery as rapidly as possible, while continuing to build their resilience.
A few samples of our DRR work are provided here:
-Paraguay, ADRA responded to flooding by providing flood resistant shelter to families in the flood-prone Chaco region.
-Zimbabwe, ADRA expanded access to clean water by promoting rainwater harvesting.
-Ecuador, ADRA is working with villages to develop disaster response plans and tested them through emergency simulations.
-Malawi, ADRA is implementing a climate change adaptation project to build resilient communities.
-Papua New Guinea, ADRA worked with communities to relocate agricultural plots from flood prone areas to safe zones.
-Madagascar, water catchments were constructed to collect and store water to mitigate the effects of drought.
-Philippines, ADRA mainstreams DRR training in all projects including a resilient agribusiness project among SRI rice farmers, fisherfolk, and vegetable growers in the typhoon belt and poverty prone region of Bicol.
-Vietnam, ADRA provided farmers and local community in Ha Tinh province with agricultural materials to recover after the flood and training in community based disaster risk management in order to build their resilience.
-ADRA Indonesia is developing community-led climate change adaptation through traditional methods and resources using bamboo to reclaim coastal erosion
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.