Report on Freetown-based Disaster Resilient Project

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Report on
Freetown-
Based Disaster-
resilient Project
Planning
Document
May 30
2018

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Identification and Description of the problem...........................................................................3
Problem..................................................................................................................................3
Causes....................................................................................................................................3
Local efforts...........................................................................................................................3
VCA Mapping........................................................................................................................4
SWOT Analysis.....................................................................................................................4
Strengths:............................................................................................................................4
Weakness:..........................................................................................................................5
Opportunities:.....................................................................................................................5
Threats:...............................................................................................................................5
Summary of the Propose Project............................................................................................5
Objectives...........................................................................................................................5
Proposed Project design.............................................................................................................6
Action Plan Implementation......................................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11
Reference..................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
Project Planning Management is the part of Project management. Project Management is the
application of skills, knowledge, techniques and tools to the activities of the project, so that
the requirements of the project can be achieved (Project management institute, 2018).
Disaster Resilience is the ability of individuals, organisations, and states to adopt and recover
themselves from shocks, stress or any hazard without compromising the long term prospects
for the development of organisations, states, communities, and individuals at international,
national, regional and local level (Combaz, 2015). This Project Planning Document Report is
based on Freetown, Sierra Leone mudslide. On 14 August 2017, a mudslide occurred in the
town situated near mountain area in Regent which is in the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra
Leone. The disaster swept away many homes, leaving the residents of that place anxious for
the news of their family members, who were struck in that mudslide (Varajão, Dominguez,
Ribeiro & Paiva, 2014). This report consists of three segments in which first is Description
and identification of the mudslide. It includes the basic data where this disaster occurred, the
definition of the problem in brief, major causes behind the disaster, local efforts taken in
order to solve the problem, VCA mapping and SWOT Analysis of the problem and lastly a
summary is presented explaining and describing the need for new project. The second part of
the report consists of preparing a Proposed Project Design. It consist brief description of the
new project, projection of the goals and objectives, giving reasons for why the solution is
appropriate, the benefits expected from the proposed project, giving the logical framework
for the proposed project. The last part of the report consists of Action Plan and
Implementation of the proposed project. It includes the steps to ensure community
participation, sustainability of the programme and barriers, challenges and recommendations
to address the community participation and sustainability of the new project. The final part of
the report consists of the results obtained from doing all the parts of the report.

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Identification and Description of the
problem
Description of problem
The Disaster occurred due to massive landslide on 14 August 2017, 6:00 AM (As per local
time) in the western rural area in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. There was a
landslide in Babadorie River Valley which made the existing floods even worse. It had
affected both the rural and urban area affecting 6000 people of which, 1,141 residents were
declared either dead or missing. There was three days of continuous intense rainfall. The
Suger loaf, which is the highest peak in north of Western Peninsula Area was collapsed. The
impact of damage had varied by the geography. The river channels got wide. There are four
landslides occurred on that day. Due to heavy rains, the town experienced floods in several
locations which cover culvert area, Glanville Brook Watercourse where one of the city
rubbish dumps is situated. The huge flow of Babadorie River Valley had also caused flooding
in several valleys across the town. Flooding is one of the most common hazards than large
scale landsides in the town which affects almost all parts of Freetown during rainy season
(The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, 2018).
Causes
 Rainfall patterns vary across the peninsula- It is because of the atmospheric pressure
and localized topography.
 Rainfall in certain catchment is not determined- Available Data is not accurate and
there was limited number of weather stations.
 Weather data is not been reviewed and may require some specialists metrological
interpretation.

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 It is an underdeveloped area- It is because of the atmospheric reasons that there is loss
of life, buildings, infrastructure and forest.
 There is no visit from the World Bank team as none of the slip was visited by the
World Bank team due to time and access constraints (Papadopoulosa, Gunasekaran,
Dubey, Altay, Childee, & Fosso-Wamba, 2017).
Local efforts:
The NGO Street Child is the first one to come up in support by providing emergency food.
The DaLA (Damage and Loss Assessment) was done by the government to identify the
preliminary needs for funds mobilization and launch of immediate recovery. Increase in
awareness of public and investment in the principal of BBB. There are three recovery plans
which are made which were the urgent short-term relief for 0-3 months. It includes response,
relief, measures to enhance multi-hazard risk information and logistics system. The Medium-
term resilient recovery which was for 3 months- 12 months. Lastly, long-term resilient
recovery for 1 year- 3 years. These include legal and institutional arrangements for social
sectors, measures to mainstream the disaster risk reduction in development sectors and
livelihood.
VCA Mapping
Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment is mythology for gathering information to increase
the awareness of risk and help the members of community to plan the activities to reduce the
vulnerability and increase the capacity before the happening of disasters (Global Publications,
2007). It has been divided in five components which are Well-being, livelihood, Self-
protection, governance, Social protection.In this mudslide, there were many of the policies
which needed to be fixed by the government of Freetown so as to reduce the effect of these

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natural disasters which had happened in Freetown. In this case there is mudslide and floods
are the natural disasters and the initiative of the government needs to be revised to reduce the
effects, like:
 Town planning should be done keeping in mind the area and frequency of having
natural disasters at that time.
 Accurate weather report.
 Policies by government needs to be regulated
 Need for awareness is must so that every person individually can put some of the
efforts which are considered as one of the need of VCA Analysis.
 Mobility of people during that time needs to be regulated.
 Need for the up gradation of the technology so that communication will increase
which can make a positive impact in that situation.
 Arrangement of emergency funds which can serve as a biggest help in that
situation.
 Temporary displacement centres for citizens in case of emergency.
SWOT Analysis
Strengths: The international organisation for migration released $150,000 in
emergency funds to help the people affected by it. The incident manager which was
appointed by WPF has helped with the information management, coordination and the
activities conducted during the Assesment of needs.
Weakness: The rainfall patters is one of the major reasons for mudslide as the
accurate rainfall forecast data is not available in the place as that place is in the outskirts
area weather data is not previewed in a proper manner.