Expanding into other slums Save the Children's past success has allowed the project to expand its intervention areas into other slums. Save the Children works in 20 slums and 20 schools in 2 wards in Patna and 2 wards in Kolkata, India.
Secure cities for children in India
Resilience
Social resilience is the ability of human communities to withstand and recover from stresses, such as environmental change or social, economic or political upheaval. Resilience in societies and their life-supporting ecosystems is crucial in maintaining options for future human development.
Vulnerability refers to the propensity of social and ecological systems to suffer harm from exposure to external stresses and shocks. Research on vulnerability can, for example, assess how large the risk is that people and ecosystems will be affected by climate changes and how sensitive they will be to such changes. Vulnerability is often denoted the antonym of resilience.
Project Outcomes
As a result of a seven-year relationship with communities and local government in Patna and Kolkata, there has been a growing interest in urban disaster risk reduction and school safety programmes. This has motivated governmental officials to work with us on larger resilience programmes in these cities.
The project aims to reach 27,000 direct beneficiaries across 20 slums and 20 schools in both Patna and Kolkata. The aim of the project is for schools and other local institutions to engage with, adapt and incorporate a child-centred risk reduction and resilience approach throughout their governance processes and service delivery. The incorporation of this framework into government policy is a key outcome of this project.
The project also enhances the capacity for advocacy by children and communities in order to ensure more effective and accountable program delivery to vulnerable people in our intervention areas and beyond.