About ACE DRR
The Advanced Centre for Enabling Disaster Risk Reduction (ACE DRR), promoted by the Tata-Dhan Academy with the support of DHAN Foundation and Oxfam America, will enhance the knowledge and practice on disaster risk reduction (DRR) among the communities such as people organizations, non-government organizations, technical organizations, funding partners, government organizations, and academic and research institutions.
Mission
Provide evidence based knowledge for enabling integration of disaster risk reduction in mainstream development and encourage community driven models and solutions for sustainability of disaster risk reduction.
Vision
To emerge as a centre of excellence in DRR through:
- Building and sharing knowledge from practice.
- Pioneering in research, networking and policy advocacy.
- Encouraging innovations in action.
Guiding Principles
- Promote vulnerability reduction through disaster risk reduction based on community driven approaches and partnership models Advancing the knowledge and practice on disaster risk reduction
- Enabling disaster risk reduction through multi-sectoral, inter-disciplinary, and multi-stakeholder action.
Core Values
- Humaneness encompasses expressions of kindness, compassion and caring, and is instrumental for creating sensitivity to individual needs irrespective of caste, class, creed, gender, or ethnicity.
- Openness promotes opportunities for learning, sharing, and building linkages across sectors, disciplines, and institutions.
- Enabling expands the scope for capacity building, and knowledge sharing through networking, sustaining other initiatives, and building self-reliance and long term sustainability.
- Innovation promotes contributing to the knowledge enhancement and enrichment and is instrumental for advancing knowledge.
- Excellence integrates efficiency, effectiveness, and quality consciouness into our activities.