Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management - Part 1

MAINSTREAMING DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT in development planning can reverse the current trend of rising disaster impact. Risk Identification Risk assessments (community-based, probabilistic modeling); risk mapping; information campaigns; public outreach; etc. Risk Reduction Structural and non-structural measures; land use planning; policies and regulation; infrastructure retrofitting; etc. DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT is a combination of Preparedness Civil protection systems; pre-positioning emergency response equipment; early warning systems; contingency planning; etc. Financial Protection Assessing and reducing contingent liabilities; budget appropriation and execution; ex-ante and ex-post financing instruments; etc. Resilient Reconstruction Resilient recovery and reconstruction policies; ex-ante design of institutional response mechanisms; etc. INSTITUTIONAL, POLITICAL, NORMATIVE, FINANCIAL CONTEXT