Strengthening resilience: can ‘disaster risk management’ offer a foundation? - ODI
Source(s):
Overseas Development Institute
To mark the 2011 International Day for Disaster Reduction, Tom Mitchell maps strategies for strengthening the resilience of children and young people.
He states that "all approaches clearly have:
- an ex-ante prevention or risk reduction aspect, which often involves reducing poverty, vulnerability and exposure
- a preparedness aspect
- an effective response aspect that involves managing the impact as efficiently and as smartly as possible. Ideally, the response tries to reduce the risk and the severity of the impact next time round."