Engineers without Borders humanitarian capacity building project (EWBCB)

Project period:

06.04.2018 - 31.08.2019

Granted amount:

364,133,- DKK

Organization:

Ingeniører uden Grænser (IUG)

Partners:

ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS SIERRA LEONE

Pool:

Civilsamfundspuljen

Grant type:

EU samfinansiering

World goals:

Goal 1: No Poverty

Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Goal 13: Climate Action

Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Efforts take place in:

Nepal Sierra Leone Tanzania

Overall targets

The overall objective of Project is to strengthening of resilience in poor communities through transfer of humanitarian technical knowledge to civil society via volunteering.

Immediate targets

The Specific Objective of the project is to strengthen capacity and internal governance structures through training and facilitation of organisational development processes within partner organisations, and to enhance the linkage between relief and development.

Target groups

The Target group of the intervention are partners and their constituencies, the local communities in which they are working respectively. - Nepal: Build Up Nepal - Sierra Leone: Engineers without Borders Sierra Leone - Tanzania: Mavuno Improvement for Community Relief & Services, Tanzania Partners further include: Engineers without Borders Sweden and Engineers without Borders Norway and Danish - Church Aid, Nepal and Emergency Architecture & Human Rights, Dk.

Resume

The overall objective of Project is to strengthening of resilience in poor communities through transfer of humanitarian technical knowledge to civil society via volunteering. The project seeks to link relief, rehabilitation, development and organisational capacity. Interventions will take place with partners in fragile context of post-earthquake Nepal, post-Ebola and flooded Sierra Leone and Tanzania where sustainable adaptation and climate change resilience is at the fore. The activities are to build internal governance structures within local partners and enhance their capacity within the field of nexus relief & development, resilience, recovery, risk-reduction and management. On-site trainings and facilitation of participatory needs assessments for technical humanitarian- and development interventions with strategic partners will leverage advocacy towards duty bearers and enhance local ownership.