Tohoku Lessons Learned
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This document discusses lessons learned from providing relief after disasters. It argues that relief efforts often do more harm than good by disempowering survivors and disrupting local systems. Instead, it advocates for engaging and empowering communities by connecting them, enabling local capacity and entrepreneurship, and coordinating relief through communication rather than centralization. The goal should be supporting survivors with dignity and opportunities, not turning them into refugees dependent on aid.
Tohoku Lessons Learned
- 1. LESSONS LEARNED FROM TOHOKU
- 2. WHEN DISASTERS STRIKE, IT’S NATURE’S FAULT
- 3. WHAT HAPPENS AFTERWARDS, IT’S OUR RESPONSIBILITY
- 4. SOME PEOPLE ARE GIVEN A BURDEN, OTHERS, WE, ARE GIVEN A GIFT
- 5. USE YOUR GIFT TO LIFT THE BURDEN OF OTHERS
- 7. BUT Is helping any help? Not really… At least not in the way we are doing it…
- 8. Often when we help… We make life decisions for those we are helping.
- 9. Often when we help… We fail to see the whole picture and feel content to help. We search the approach most efficient to us not to those we are trying to help.
- 10. we destroy the very same environment we are trying to help. we displace local capacity.
- 11. we measure our success by the delivery of help or completion of actions not actual impact.
- 13. NEVER HELP: ENGAGE, ENABLE, EMPOWER AND CONNECT
- 15. EVERYONE CAN JOIN AND ADD VALUE
- 16. THE BEST TEAM IS NOT THE ONE WITH THE BEST MEMBERS, BUT THE TEAM THAT MAKES ITS MEMBERS BETTER AND ENABLES THEM TO DO MORE.
- 17. Ms Aikawa I SEE AMAZING PEOPLE WALKING AROUND LIKE REGULAR PEOPLE
- 18. I SEE AMAZING PEOPLE WALKING AROUND LIKE REGULAR PEOPLE
- 19. Dr Suda I SEE AMAZING PEOPLE WALKING AROUND LIKE REGULAR PEOPLE
- 20. I SEE AMAZING PEOPLE WALKING AROUND LIKE REGULAR PEOPLE
- 21. DISASTERS DON’T CREATE REFUGEES, THEY CREATE
- 22. IT IS THE CONVENTIONAL RELIEF SYSTEM THAT TURNS SURVIVORS INTO REFUGEES.
- 23. WHO ARE THE DISASTER SURVIVORS?
- 24. DISASTERS DESTROY THE PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE REMAINS
- 25. THE CURSE OF EXCLUSION AND DISPLACEMENT
- 26. CHAOS FOUND? NOT AMONG THE SURVIVORS THOUGH
- 27. MOST EFFECTIVE HELP COMES WHEN THE COMMUNITY IS EMPOWERED TO MAKE DECISIONS AFFECTING THEM
- 28. RELIEF B2B
- 29. FAIR PAY FOR VOLUNTEERS
- 30. MARKETS OF HOPE: ENABLING ENTREPRENEURS VS. CREATING REFUGEES
- 31. A GLOBAL MARKETPLACE OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM DISASTER AREAS AND DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES
- 32. DISASTER RECOVERY WITH DIGNITY, INCLUSION, GENERATION OF WEALTH AND OPPORTUNITIES
- 33. FROM DONATIONS TO PURCHASES, FROM BEGGARS TO MERCHANTS, FROM ONE TIME TO SUSTAINABILITY
- 34. LOCAL INNOVATION AND GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Your very own competitive advantage
- 35. WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT, MAKES US BETTER
- 36. FIND YOUR SUPER POWER, JOIN A LEAGUE OF HEROES AND EXERCISE IT
- 37. TO SUPPORT THE SURVIVORS, VISIT THE REBUILT DISASTER AREAS TO SUPPORT LOCAL ECONOMY
- 38. JOIN US TO IMPACT PEOPLE’S LIVES AND TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD