Towards a post-2015 framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction
BUILDING THE RESILIENCE OF NATIONS AND COMMUNITIES TO DISASTERS
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Learning lessons from mainstreaming DRR into development planning and sectors
It is very useful to build in rewards for compliance with innovation. By this it is meant that financing needs to require resilient technologies for construction and mitigation infrastructure as part of the project approval process. This is not easy…
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earl kessler
December 2012
Linking DRR and CCA in policy, programming and institutional partnership
The link has yet to be made in countries such as Haiti. DRR remains a "sector" apart from planning and urban development. The issues however resolved in the recovery demonstrated in Haiti militates for the definition of urban infrastructur…
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earl kessler
December 2012
What are major challenges to action on disaster risk reduction and building resilience? How do we tackle them?
The issue of DRR and the challenges to having it become "mainstream" is that it is still considered a Sector apart. With that position it will most probably only be those in DRR that think about DRR. This needs desperately to change. One a…
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earl kessler
October 2012
What are your expectations from the first online dialogue as a whole?
Dear participants.....from the recent experiences of the Haiti earthquake and the relief and recovery responses that have taken place we need to talk straight and get over rehashing past dialogues, HFA included. There is a dramatic need for Governme…
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earl kessler
September 2012
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