GNDR trains CSOs and other stakeholders
During the National Coordinating Meeting of the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) in Ghana, civil society organisations and other stakeholder were trained on risk informed development. The training was conducted by the National Focal Point Of GNDR in Ghana.
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GNDR identifies risk as to the potential of adverse impacts on the lives and livelihoods of communities. It also determines risk by the threats people face, their vulnerability, and their capacity.
Risk-informed development prioritises risks faced by communities living in the most vulnerable situations and takes account of these risks when designing and delivering development plans and actions. It is a right-based approach that works through the perspective of the people most at risk themselves.
Risk-informed development is community led and it builds momentum across the stages of development. It also tackles power to build resilience.
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The emphasized the need for risk-informed development to be community-led, participatory, collaborative, gender transformative, inclusive, and empowering. She said that risk-informed development significantly involves the perspectives of the people most at risk, enables more sustainable and resilient development, and challenges everyone involved to recognise that development choices create risk as well as opportunities.
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