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Community-Based Comprehensive Recovery Working together to recover faster THE COBACORE PROJECT – A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH TO DISASTER RECOVERY Martijn Neef – TNO Innovation for Life, The Netherlands Technical coordinator COBACORE project Future Security 2014 – 16-18 September 2014, Berlin This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 313308

The call for innovation Next generation damage and post-crisis needs assessment tool for reconstruction and recovery planning Complex crises situations, wide regions affected operational areas potentially worldwide and growing needs for longer- lasting operations pose specific demands on the reconstruction and recovery planning capabilities of relief forces. This project aims at improving reconstruction and recovery planning capabilities of relief units by providing them with technologically improved, faster and more interoperable assessments tools as available today.

The COBACORE project Community-Based Comprehensive Recovery An EU funded project that aims to: • close collaboration gaps between communities that play a role during disaster recovery • make it easier to match needs with capacities • help affected communities to voice their needs and find communities that can help

The disaster management challenge � Climate Change; Economic Trends; Political Shifts; and Societal Trends � Increasing pressure on response and recovery

Disaster recovery restoration of infrastructures • property reconstruction • institutional recovery • economic recovery • social and cultural recovery • Disaster recovery is about bringing a disaster stricken area back into a stable, self- stable, self stable, self stable, self -sustainable state - - sustainable state sustainable state sustainable state – many communities, many societal functions – many interdependencies with surrounding areas – long term effects on all facets of life

institutional mobility domain & transport built vital environment infrastructures social, cultural and educational healthcare domain economical security and domain safety environmental quality of life domain

Many communities businesses military organisations municipalities national governments media volunteers professional care social organisations groups donors and online technical advocacy groups civilians volunteers NGO’s capacities needs

Many collaboration gaps

Many opportunites

The approach Community-Based Comprehensive Recovery • Develop a Develop a Develop a Develop a vision vision vision on how communities vision can work together to recovery faster from disasters • Build a demonstration Build a demonstration Build a demonstration Build a demonstration platform platform platform platform that shows how current technologies can make that happen • Create a network of Create a network of supporters supporters that Create a network of Create a network of supporters supporters can adopt the COBACORE outcomes and bring it into practice

The COBACORE communities

COBACORE issues responding responding responding responding professionals professionals professionals professionals self self self self responding responding responding responding affected affected affected affected sustaining sustaining sustaining sustaining community community community community community community community community community community community community needs & capacity matching

The COBACORE approach • The COBACORE platform closes collaboration gaps • Support self-sustaining communities • More effective recovery Needs overview Community-generated data Community awareness Marketplace Volunteer management Volunteer training Activity mapping

The COBACORE platform for professionals for professionals for professionals for professionals overview of needs, capacities, actors and • activities merge operational data with community- • generated data targeted communition means for status • updates and instructions joint activity planning with communities • for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities for affected/responding communities means to voice needs and willingness to help means to voice needs and willingness to help • • make matches and join recovery activities make matches and join recovery activities • • personalised status updates personalised status updates • • obtain instructions from professionals obtain instructions from professionals • •

Testing the concept • The COBAgame: – a gamified evaluation of the COBACORE concepts – live testing of the platform and interaction concept – professionals and volunteers acting out the different communities from partitioned locations – test the efficiency of self-organisation among groups with and without the COBACORE platform intermediate evaluation final evaluation final evaluation June 2014, Rotterdam NL Summer 2015, Maastricht/Aachen NL Summer 2015, Maastricht/Aachen NL • • • Tabletop-testing Cross-border collaboration Cross-border collaboration • • • Evaluation of the core platform Evaluation of the final platform Evaluation of the final platform • • • approx. 40 volunteers from the Red Field testing with participation of Field testing with participation of • • • Cross and Rotterdam Safety Region local parties, 100+ participants local parties, 100+ participants Fictive disaster recovery scenario Realistic disaster recovery scenario Realistic disaster recovery scenario • • •

The way forward • Further concept development – What are valuable assets in such a platform? – Understand adoption criteria – why would people use it? • Further platform development – Which features are relevant for you as a user? – What is a simple yet powerful workflow? – How to stimulate group activities? Only by ‘liking’? – How to incorporate training/instructions? – How much of existing social media should be incorporated? – What indicators would you need on a dashboard as professional? • Generate community interest – Align project with existing initiatives and domain demands – Promote the integrated COBACORE approach – Build specific national versions? If yes, how?

Framing the project outcome COBACORE as a national or regional COBACORE as a global platform platform COBACORE as a community-wide COBACORE as a professionals-only platform platform COBACORE as a thematic-oriented COBACORE as a all-purpose, all-hazard platform platform COBACORE as a community-managed COBACORE as a government-led service platform? COBACORE as a first step towards an COBACORE as an inspiration for other operational tool platforms

The role of the volunteer Public participation The role of social media Coupling community- and in disaster recovery professional information channels

Coordination and collaboration Trust in the self Trust in the self Trust in the self Trust in the self- - - -reliance of reliance of reliance of reliance of disaster disaster- disaster disaster - - -stricken communities stricken communities stricken communities stricken communities

connect connect connect connect project project project project Coordinator: TNO (NL) Get in touch and join us! General: Paul Tilanus (paul.tilanus@tno.nl) Technical: Martijn Neef (martijn.neef@tno.nl) http://www.cobacore.eu EU FP7 Grant: 313308 @cobacore Duration: 1 April 2013 – 31 March 2016 info@cobacore