Scoping Study on the role of networks in amplifying community voice

The SIDDRA project aims to amplify the voices of communities, promote multi-sectoral discussions, and ensure the inclusion of women and girls in decision-making processes related to DRR. Formal and informal networks play an important role to increase capacity, raise awareness, create spaces and opportunities and to lobby for community engagement in decision making and resilience building efforts. With that in mind, at the early stages of SIDDRA project, the consortium commissioned a scoping study to investigate the role that networks play in DRR efforts and the need for such networks in the South Asian region. The research papers also identified opportunities and ways in which networks could operate to strengthen and support the voices of local communities, especially those of the oppressed and marginalized.